To those without depression, the suicidal act (or the weeks in bed, with the afterthought of bathing too painful to even surmise) and the aforementioned quote make little sense. This passage from David Foster Wallace's epic novel Infinite Jest begins to describe suicidal ideation in a way most people with depression innately understand. The person in whom its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. Warning: This Article Addresses the Topic of Suicide and Self-Harm
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