Originally Posted by mistiis

I have been thinking a lot about this. To think about it scientifically, why can one person go through really difficult situations and never consider suicide as an option, and another see it as the only way out? I do wonder sometimes if it has to with the chemicals in our brains and how we are wired.

I just think that it is bigger than what so called science could understand at this point. There are personal beliefs, I think, that can made suicide seem like the best option. Emotional pain clouds thinking. The AD's help some people who are treated with them. Counseling with that for others. All of this seems to help. Education to get people to reach out and seek treatment is imperative. But, there will be those who simply cannot face what the future looks like to them at a given moment. And I don't think that is chemical. There are too many roads that lead to suicide.

I was reading about something called MBCT (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy) which is something that is being used as relapse prevention and for those who are treatment resistant.

I believe that Pter must have learned some of these techniques on his own? And I find myself learning the same thing. I can't take AD's so I have to find other ways to deal with it. I don't know what that says about my brain chemistry at this point. But, there is a way to deal with it.

Education, I think, on developing these techniques, and then getting them out to the public. I think there is a movement in that direction.
Just thinking out loud here, and thought I would offer this.

Thank you dear Alffe, I am glad now too, that I kept on.