Suicide

It is believed that a significant proportion of suicides are due to depression. Here are some warning signs which you should be aware of:

• Thoughts about death - imagining death as a long sleep without any problems.
• Thoughts about taking one's own life being the right and decent thing to do - such thoughts are logical to the ill.
• Negative thoughts such as: "I am a burden to my family" and "My family would manage better without me".

People around the sufferer do not understand this way of thinking. People suffering from depression also don't understand the thoughts themselves when they recover. A person suffering from depression has a logic in their thinking which changes according to the severity of the illness. Ultimately, the person lives in a world which you and others cannot understand at all.

Read more about suicide and the risk of suicide here.