Suicide is not selfish, what is selfish is that we expect people to go through this pain and hurt everyday, the pain we put them through. The truth is a smile can hide so much pain. We all tend to act like everything is fine, when in reality we are slowly falling apart. Depression can be side effect from bullying, suicide is a common side effect of depression. When cancer takes a life we blame cancer, but when depression takes a life we blame the victim. Depression is a disease, do not blame the victim for losing the fight. According to the Yale school of Medicine, studies from 13 countries found signs of an apparent connection between bullying, being bullied and suicide. 2 million children have been harassed, threatened or subjected to forms of bullying over the past year, 1 million commit suicide each year. That is about 1 death every 40 seconds or 3,000 deaths per day. …show more content…
A mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of. Mental illnesses cause people to have changes in behavior and emotions, that they cannot control . Suffering from depression alongside other diagnoses increases the likelihood of suicide. Many people say that it is easy to make yourself happy, so they say to people with a diagnoses “I don’t know what to say.”, “It’ll all be ok.”, “We all have bumps in the road.”. People feel unloved, they feel as if they have no one they can open up to because we think no one listens or wants to hear what we have to say because, well they might think of us as different, but what everyone needs to realize is that there is always someone who is there to listen and help you, there is always going to be someone willing to help sometimes you just have to go out of your way to get help for the person or help