BaroqueRockstar said:
you can't say she didn't care about her child. suicidal people usually think the world would be a better place without me. if anything she probably thought she would make a bad mother, a mentality brought up by the fact her son just died.
Exactly. It's not about who has had to deal with worse things in life, and how some people kill themselves and others don't. It's about individual brain chemistry and biology, and how some people are not built as strongly. Some people are born with weak joints or a weak heart, some people are predisposed to developing an auto-immune disorder, and some people are likely candidates for clinical depression.
FashionJunkie, I do understand what you are trying to say. And if depression was not a disease I might agree with you to a certain extent (though I'd probably word it more softly

But mental illness is deeply misunderstood. Someone who is clinically depressed is not thinking logically or rationally. It is
impossible. They cannot
not be "selfish". Indeed, almost all suicidal people think they're being incredibly self-less. They truly, honestly, deeply, with every fiber of their being, believe that they are thinking rationally, and they still come to the overwhelming conclusion that the world - family, friends, and babies included - would be better off without them. They believe that people will be sad for a little while, but that things will be so much easier/better without them around, that it'll all be worth it. I know this from personal experience. It is a delusion, but when you are experiencing it, it is incredibly real. And you are in so much anguish, so much emotional pain that it feels physical, you feel like you are literally drowning in pain. All you can see is the bad things you bring to the world, even if people are right there telling you it isn't true, that they love you and need you. You
can't believe it to be true, because your brain isn't functioning properly and needs to be medicated.
You can't rationalize yourself out of a broken arm, and you can't rationalize yourself out of clinical depression. If you've ever been able to talk yourself out of being depressed, it was not clinical. It is different from other forms. There is no way to know who will get it, or what will trigger it. But once its there, you need medical help and intervention to overcome and treat it. Willpower and thinking of your loved ones and what they need often works against you, because you really, honestly do think everything would be fine if you just weren't there anymore.