JerryBoBerry said:
Some days make you step back and think.
Last night one of the people in my apartment complex I knew for a couple years committed suicide. A 31 year old guy from Sri Lanka going to this college for his Phd in mechanical engineering. One of those times where no one had a clue. He was always friendly to everyone. People were chatting with him Tuesday and didn't even suspect anything might have been wrong.
I think this is very common. Depression and suicidal thoughts aren't exactly something a suicidal person can talk about with people that care about you, or even cursorily know you, because they will just add pressure to confront the problem. If the person wanted to confront the problem, they would be seeing a therapist or psychiatrist about it. So the obvious solution the depressed person will always come up with is to hide the problem behind a mask.
Also being overly friendly for depressed people is just as common as overly angry at the world. It's an outward expression of hope. A wish that maybe things will turn around if the person tries to lighten the World a bit themselves, or that maybe doing so will allow connections with people and open up a new World for oneself. Strangely enough, the depressed will be very friendly and seem friendly, but the will to actually truly connect with someone is so lacking that the depressed will turn down any attempts at
real connection or socialization and choose seclusion.
The prospect of a new future from a new job doesn't mean much either, when the depressed feels like nothing else has ever made him happy.
I can't wait till the day the world sees it as an injury, albeit mental, just as they do a broken limb. It's not something to be ashamed of and can be healed. Sure it can be healed naturally if you are lucky, but why not let a professional doctor help work on it if you have access to one?