Teaching the future scum of the world to encourage suicide

I actually have some sympathy for this girl, even if this is a pure attention grab. If she's so socially and emotionally damaged and clingy that she thinks she needs to fake her own death to receive any sort of love or attention...maybe I'm just being naive, but that seems to be almost as bad of a mental state to be trapped in as crippling depression.

I do worry about these kinds of stunts, though, because they make people cynical, so that they assume that people who actually suffer from depression, who are actually on the brink of suicide, are just attention whores. Between the nasty assumptions that everyone seems to draw (even I'm guilty of this to some degree) about depression, and the fact that our culture doesn't even seem to consider mental disorders as diseases, it's amazing that anyone seeks help for any kind of problem that they have. I've suffered from bipolar disorder for years, and I've come very close to suicide before...if my friends, family, doctors, etc. had told me to get over it, or attributed all of my problems to angst, I probably wouldn't be here right now.

Sorry if that second paragraph didn't make much sense...I spent a lot of time fiddling with this post (this topic IS rather close to my heart, after all), and this is about as good as I could get it.

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