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Double Standards


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⚠️Trigger Warning: the following poem contains subject matter pertaining to suicide and death⚠️

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When a person dies

of a physical illness,

you mourn them.


When a person commits suicide,

you assassinate their character

and call them

selfish


because their death is a result

of a self-inflicted action.


Because they chose to die,

right?


Because they not only chose

to destroy themselves,

but the lives of their family and friends,

right?


But

just as a physical illness

turns the cells against the body,


a mental illness

turns the mind against

itself,

convinces it that

death

is the only option.


What you don't understand

is that the person isn't our

killer--


depression is.

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