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Originally Posted by Vanilla
My bad, the user names change all over the place and its hard to keep up.
You seriously need to chill out. And it is a huge factor. Finding love and farting in an elevator are in completely different relms to suicide. I liked your other 'doctor' answers but not this one.
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I have to apologize for sounding snappy, I'd had a less than ideal day. However, your response shows me that you still don't understand my point. If someone asks me a question where there are biological circumstances involved, then I'm going to answer the question as if that person is operating or expects to be operating under what can be considered "normal, or balanced" biological circumstances.
So, let's get back to suicide then so we don't confuse ourselves with other "realms". When asked a question about suicide, I answered as if the person I am speaking to is of sound physical and mental biological constitution. Why would I address someone who is clinically determined to be mentally sick? It is obvious that I cannot blame a person who is unable to distinguish the rationality of their choices. Unless there was a clause in the original question that would highlight such a case, I have no reason to go out of my way to accommodate every circumstance in which suicide might rear its ugly head, especially (and I repeat) if there are obvious and understandable occasions in which normal and balanced cognitive choices are not a factor.
IF THE QUESTION had been something along the lines of, "My sister has attempted suicide and she has been diagnosed as being mentally unstable with (X diagnosis), is she making good decisions?" -- then my answer would have been sensitive and apologetic to the fact that she had been declared as being mentally unsound.
The reason I got snappy is because whether or not you meant to do this, you spoke in a fashion which was condescending. You spoke to me like I had never heard of "depression". Next time, it might be more appropriate to make an addendum to my answer, or ask as a follow-up question about something that I did not address in my answer such as "In the case of suicide, Crowe, what about people who suffer from clinical depression?" or "Crowe did not address people who are clinically depressed... here is what happens to them..." -- a little tact can go a long way!
Again I apologize for biting your head off with that first answer.