Commenting on my previous post

I wrote my previous entry last year. Last year was a very hard year for me. I didn't belong where I was last year. I felt that I was trapped and I could never get out, that was some-what true but also I think some of it was just that my world view was somewhat limited. I think the cause of peoples depression is not because of the circumstances that they're in, but how they react to them. I think the circumstance is not something you can change, well, your actions can influence you circumstances, but how you react to where your at is what can cause or prevent depression. I know there are a lot of people in worse situations then you, and I know a lot of them have every right to become depressed, but they choose not to and make the best of their situation. Take some of the people in Haiti, for instance. A lot of them have lost everything, their homes, there family, their life, but they aren't depressed, they haven't lost their hope. I think hope can be lost when you decide it is. Most people give in top quickly and that's the cause for their depression. Again, with depression there are many possible solutions for it; there is the better way which is overcoming it, and there is giving in to it which many times leads to suicide. In my opinion suicide is a very cowardly way of problem solving. Instead of facing your problems you take yourself out of the picture, you run away from them. I think suicide is also a desperate cry for help in the only way some people know how. Well, that is my views on depression and suicide.. I guess I should be like every other guidance counselor and say, "Dont do it, it will ruin your life!!" But, for me I'm just concerned, and all I can give as guidance is just talk to people about it, don't keep it all bottled up onside because it will ruin you. I know from personal experience that telling someone, if its the right person, will never be harmful.