I've known a number of university students commit suicide because of bad grades. Granted they were Chinese, people known for holding their children to ridiculously high standards. Still, these were perfectly sane and functioning human beings who just couldn't handle pressure and stress. Some people can, some people don't..and I have to imagine that when you're dealing with career death (what hospital is going to hire you when you're infamous for something that goes against hospital protocols) the pressure is much higher.
They aren't a functional humans if they can't handle a normal amount of stress (or if their thought processes and beliefs fuel their anxiety and stress). I am not calling them "insane," but you don't need to be completely detached from reality to have mental health problems.
No.
I'm not really in the mood to give examples to be perfectly honest. But if someone in my own family can be deemed as perfectly OK and still take their life- I'm willing to bet that not everyone who takes their life is a straight jacket looney.
I think a large amount of us have had "those" tendencies with the thought of "ending it all"- but to say we all have underlying mental issues is pretty much a blanketed statement. That's my belief anyway.
This woman would me scarred for life, especially since it's a huge fuck up that was in our media, and maybe she just didn't want to continue. Maybe she had financial issues, marriage issues, etc. But who knows. To be honest I think I'll leave it there- this is not the best place to discuss mental issues anyway
All I wish is that the full truth, one way or the other, comes out. This isn't the place to be judging this poor woman
You don't need to be schizophrenic or manic or be "crazy" to have a mental illness. A lot of mental health disorders aren't readily apparent, even if you know a person very well. I am not calling this woman or anyone else who commits suicide a "looney," but I am saying a person who commits suicide over something a healthy person would regard as "trivial" (as you mentioend) does have a mental illness. Even in non-trivial situations, suicide is usually a result of mental illness (excepting certain cultures or circumstances such as advanced disease and unmanagable chronic pain).
Mecha_infantry, it's not normal to regular consider killing yourself and it's not normal to make plans based on those impulses. If you have those thoughts regularly, I would encourage you to speak with someone about it.
Lastly, just because a doctor tells you that you are "OK" does not mean that you are. If your friends or family who committed suicide had spoken to psychiatrists or family doctors and were deemed OK, it may be that the doctors failed them (or simply did not recognize they were a threat to commit suicide). I can't remember the statistic, but a large number of people who kill themselves visit their family doctors just a few weeks before they kill themselves.
