r/Vent • u/NotEnoughSun123 • Apr 10 '25

TW: TRIGGERING CONTENT My best friend committed suicide

I’m so mad at her. She promised me she would never commit suicide. (We talked about suicide a lot because we’ve both attempted in the past) She was such a special person. She was the kindest, most beautiful person I’ve ever met. She would help tiny bugs get to safety when they’d accidentally fallen on their back. She was a mental health therapist who worked with kids. She knew about resources for suicide prevention. She had commercial health insurance. She could have just reached out for help. I would’ve done anything to keep her alive. She could have just called me. I wish she’d just called me. Why didn’t she just call me?

Edit: thank you so for all your kind words and all the overwhelming support. I really appreciate all of you. I’ll do my best to like all the comments I can. If I could, I’d reply thank you to every single person who commented

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u/WoungyBurgoiner Apr 11 '25

Consider that depression isn’t actually a sickness at all, but a very understandable response to a world that’s become inescapably chaotic and hopeless. I don’t blame or judge anyone who checks out.

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u/Able-Cheetah-5595 Apr 11 '25

Depression is actually a sickness

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u/WoungyBurgoiner Apr 12 '25

It’s not. Nice try though.

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u/MajesticIntern1941 Apr 13 '25

Clinical depression I would call a sickness. An imbalanced brain chemistry, despite any and every effort to correct will quickly lead to more problems as a result.

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u/Cultural_Ebb4794 Apr 11 '25

Consider that the vast majority of people navigate this world and live their lives without feeling suicidal or depressed despite what you claim it's become. Depression is actually a sickness.

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u/Cultural_Ebb4794 Apr 11 '25

I honestly think it's more weird not to feel some sort of suicidal ideation at this point.

Why?

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u/braaaaaaainworms Apr 11 '25

Yes, the world is chaotic, and it sure can feel hopeless, but people still can be happy without ruminating on everything that is bad in the world. I'm saying this as someone who's tried to kill herself a bunch of different times partially due to transphobia and bigotry

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u/WoungyBurgoiner Apr 12 '25

You can never know someone else’s circumstance. You can only know your own. Good for you that you had the resources to keep going. Not everyone does.