I read something recently "What other people think about us is none of our business" and after thinking about it for a while, I understood what it meant.

People (us included) will all have different perceptions about the same event and therefore make different judgements. Only someone who goes through with a suicide attempt really knows how it is for them and it is on some level totally irrelevant what anyone else thinks about it.

I absolutely agree though that someone can portray a successful happy existence on the outside, while carrying significant pain on the inside. I think it is tragic that anyone can be in so much pain that this is the only way they can see to find some peace and are unable to reach out to someone at that point.