Posted by baseball55 on August 14, 2014, at 19:47:37
In reply to Re: severe overanalyzation » baseball55, posted by europerep on August 14, 2014, at 4:18:20
I have no hard data, except to note that (a) mood disorders are very common; (b) hospitalizations for serious suicidal ideation are not very common; (c) suicide attempts are uncommon; (d) suicide is quite rare.
There are frequent reports of people, especially young people, committing suicide with no prior history of mental illness.
> > Many people who commit suicide are not depressed and have had no symptoms of clinical depression.
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> > The vast majority of people with clinical depression do not commit, attempt or even contemplate suicide.
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> Hmm, can you provide any evidence to back up those two points? Of course it all depends on how you define the words, but, for example, in the first phrase, if you replace being depressed with having a psychiatric diagnosis then the numbers clearly tell a different story.
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