Suicide - The Invisible wound

How many times, how many of us did not thought of committing suicide?

 ... I raise my hand ... seems to be a side effect of life in society..

 .. maybe people cannot stand anymore the competition to be the best; 

the hard continuous evaluation of their actions and behaviors; 
the pressure to be perfect and successful; 

the daily stress; 

their mechanized lives; 

maybe they are tired of keep up appearances; 

maybe they feel themselves a failure, for not achieving the objectives “imposed” by the society; 

maybe they felt disappointed by the false equal opportunities of rights and duties promised by the system. 

Sometimes it can be a heartbreak..

Whatever it is, It reflects the deep dissatisfaction of the people with the system that was created for them. 

They lost their joy somewhere between one of the steps so well structured by our parents, by our government, by our church, by the scholars, by the powerful of our society, of our world.

They program us to do all the same things, to have the same aspirations, the same standards of clothing, to have the same needs, the same behaviors, the same thoughts ... they even tell us how to be happy.  All this to make us perfect and functional parts for the machine ... The machine must keep working ..

But sometimes the program, they gave us, has flaws during our socialization process and people feel lost in their robotic life ... after all, why have we been so aggressively fighting all those years? ..For what? What have I became?

And then, comes the health specialists and what they do? Try to update the program! 
If it doesn’t work, a good dose of antidepressants will set a long internal hibernation. Restart..

We have created the society to serve our interests, but our greed and ambition made us prisoners and victims of it.

Do not judge who is suicidal, 
Do not judge who killed himself for feeling a failure;

It was you who convinced him that it was right to live beyond his means; 

It was you who lent him the money;

it was you that made him believe that he would be happier buying stuff;

it was you who took his job; 

it was you who made him feel ashamed for failing to pay his bills; 

It was you who made him feel a failure for being unemployed. 

You deceived him, lured him and made him vulnerable. You didn’t fulfill your promises .. 

..We all contributed to his death .. we are all guilty in people suicides. 
Our lives are interconnected, all our actions have consequences in each other.. 

It’s the society that creates needs and deprives them from it.. that creates mechanisms that doesn’t work.

The major disease of the 21st century it is not aids or cancer, is the invisible pain, the depression. It is one of the leading causes of death. 

How many people hide their pain behind their staged smiles?

Depression is not being able to see the light at the end of the tunnel. in the dark, there's no way out, no options, no solutions. Everything seems to go wrong. It's pointless to fight. So, there's no hope.

Is being affected by a situation/s and not being able to deal with that experience faster enough, to put yourself together quickly. Is being trapped under the negative effect of that emotion.. is being lost in our own mind.

Depression is the death of our illusions..is the realization of the reality..

Some, say who commits suicide are people less educated. But among the geniuses and the most creative people, the suicide rate is much higher than among the population in general: Van Gogh, Tchaikovsky, John Berryman, Camilo Castelo Branco, Ernest Hemingway among others.
In addition, the more developed countries of Western Europe, like Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Scandinavian are the ones with more percentages of suicides.

Some argue that suicide is an unexpected and sudden act but "in most cases, suicide is something planned - the person builds a plan, sets a date, defines a method and thinks that possibility over a while before taking a final decision ".

In the majority of the countries, the law doesn’t include the right to suicide. The citizen has no right to dispose of his own life. 
The Suicide has, apparently, no specific reason, but still, it is a decision that only concerns to the person herself. "Committing Suicide, according to Durkheim, is the death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim herself that knows what result it will produce."

For me, I can only hope that my mind doesn’t trick me, to not let me contaminated by the capitalist marketing, 

to not make me believe that I need objects to be happy, 

to no make believe that I need to look a certain way, 

to not let me feel frustrated for not having it and consequently, not being able to create an image of happiness and success so everybody can admire.

I also hope, to never lose hope in the people.