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Old Aug 12, 2014, 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by peaches100 View Post
The news of Robin Williams' suicide has also bothered me greatly. I find myself unable to stop thinking about it. This was my exact thought also:

If someone with all those resources and such a community of support can slip away....what about all the ones with no safety network.
I have a different view on that. It's not the access to resources, clearly, that makes the difference. Sure, resources can help. At the root, though, in life, you are on your own.

Ending my life is a choice I can make, if I have the knowledge of how to do it. Meds didn't help me, counsellors didn't help me. I had no true friends all my life. My husband, a true friend, didn't solve it for me. My family was worse than useless. I had to take it upon myself in a dark and lonely life, and come up with something that works moment by moment, or fail. I didn't have drugs, success, or a glittering social circle to distract me. Would be nice to have had the latter two!! In the end, life is always a gamble and you are always responsible.
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