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“I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.”

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Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The information was naturally frightening; up to 1 in 5 people with bipolar disorder will commit suicide, and rates may even be higher for those suffering from bipolar II.”

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Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It is an illness that is biological in its origins, yet one that feels psychological in the experience of it, an illness that is unique in conferring advantage and pleasure, yet one that brings in its wake almost unendurable suffering and, not infrequently, suicide.”

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.”

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Author:Emilie Autumn

“Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression.”

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Author:Peter D. Kramer

“Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of those who are in such despair as to want to end them. It is a societal illusion that suicide is rare. It is not.”

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Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening.”

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Book:Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

Source: Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

“I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.”

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Book:Leaving home: a memoir

Source: Leaving home: a memoir

“SE Self Execution the act will always be greater than the pain.”

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Author:Stanley Victor Paskavich