Suicide and Mental Illness

What if someone with a normal, healthy, doesn’t have to worry about anything life was replaced as a person who has a mental illness? Would the feeling of the person mind stay the same? Or would the disease spin their whole life around? People with a Mental face many battle each day, big and small. Mental Illness has an effect on the decision of taking actions of suicide. It makes people feel self conscious about themselves, makes people anti-social, and most people that commit suicide. People with mental illnesses tend to feel neglected, unloved, and forgotten just because people think of them as different. Some people don’t understand that a mental illness such as depression and anxiety does not affect a person’s appearance, it affects them mentally. Most people who commit suicide have the disorder of depression according to webMD, a website where you can type your symptoms in and receive results in minutes. The mental health and recovery board stated “Since mental Illness is a wide range of conditions that affect mood, thinking, and behavior, if not treated properly the consequences of mental illness for the individual and society are staggering”. Washington Education determined that “26.2% of Americans ages eighteen and older, just about one in four adults, suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. When applied to the United States Census residential population estimates ages 18 and older, this converts to 57.7 million people”. That’s 57.7 million people who are fighting a battle that some might not win with themselves. This ending with them taking their own life in a suicide attempt.

Suicide is defined as “the act or an instance of taking one's own life voluntarily and intentionally especially by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind” in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. In the definition, it never states that suicide is because a person feels they don’t belong because something in his or her life has made them want to take their...