Anyway, self-medicating is TERRIBLE advice to give to those suffering from suicidal ideation and chronic depression. Really terrible advice.
So, what, you'd rather them pop mind altering pills the rest of their life? How is that better than, say, Marijuana?
Wouldn't vaporizing some epic OG KUSH be a far better medication for them? At least they would feel pleasure and enjoyment and happiness with almost zero negative side effects and no long term health issues.
That would make it easier for them to get their life in check, if they are feeling confident and happy while they conquer themselves, and as they shape the world around them into something far more desirable.
Personally, I feel that regular meditation and developing your own spiritual system personally would help combat the majority of these alleged "mental illnesses", and is a far better way to conquer yourself than pill popping.
This whole "mental illness" bullshit is so often just a way for people to cast the blame on something else rather than accepting responsibility for their own failures, behavior, and/ or alleged imperfections.
Well, another thing to keep in mind is that most people who are suicidal are either very young (teens) or very old and suffering from pain and/or terminal illness, also depression.
U.S. Suicide Statistics (2001)
Actual Suicides
1.3% of all deaths are from suicide.
On average, one suicide occurs every 17 minutes.
On average, an elderly person dies by suicide every 1 hour and 37 minutes.
On average, a young person (age 15-24) dies by suicide every 2 hours and 12 minutes.
Suicide is the eleventh leading cause of death for all Americans.
Suicide is the third leading cause of death for young people aged 15-24 year olds.
(1st = accidents, 2nd = homicide)
Suicide is the fifth leading cause of death for young people aged 5-14 year olds.
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among college students.
Suicide is the eighth leading cause of death for males.
Suicide is the nineteenth leading cause of death for females.
More males die from suicide than females.
(4 male deaths by suicide for each female death by suicide.)
More people die from suicide than from homicide.
(Suicide ranks as the 11th leading cause of death; Homicide ranks 13th.)
73% of all suicide deaths are white males.
80% of all firearm suicide deaths are white males.
Among the highest rates (when categorized by gender and race) are suicide deaths for white men over 85. (54 per 100,000)