Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. PRESENTS AN ANALYSIS OF SUICIDAL PERSONALITIES AND THEIR BEHAVIOR PATTERNS AS MAY BE ENCOUNTERED IN MILITARY LIFE, EMPHASIZING THE ASSISTANCE THAT CAN BE OFFERED TO PREVENT SUICIDE ATTEMPTS. Producer: National Archives and Records Administration. Creative Commons license: CC0 1.0 Universal Everyone is responsible for his life before God who has given it to him. It is God who remains the sovereign Master of life. We are obliged to accept life gratefully and preserve it for his honor and the salvation of our souls. We are stewards, not owners, of the life God has entrusted to us. It is not ours to dispose of. Suicide contradicts the natural inclination of the human being to preserve and perpetuate his life. It is gravely contrary to the just love of self. It likewise offends love of neighbor because it unjustly breaks the ties of solidarity with family, nation, and other human societies to which we continue to have obligations. Suicide is contrary to love for the living God. If suicide is committed with the intention of setting an example, especially to the young, it also takes on the gravity of scandal. Voluntary co-operation in suicide is contrary to the moral law. Grave psychological disturbances, anguish, or grave fear of hardship, suffering, or torture can diminish the responsibility of the one committing suicide. We should not despair of the eternal salvation of persons who have taken their own lives. By ways known to him alone, God can provide the opportunity for salutary repentance. The Church prays for persons who have taken their own lives. Suicide is the act of one who causes his own death, either by positively destroying his own life, as by inflicting on himself a mortal wound or injury, or by omitting to do what is necessary to escape death, as by refusing to leave a burning house. From a moral standpoint we must treat therefore not only the prohibition of positive suicide, but also the obligation incumbent on man to preserve his life. Suicide is direct when a man has the intention of causing his own death, whether as an end to be attained, or as a means to another end, as when a man kills himself to escape condemnation, disgrace, ruin etc. It is indirect, and not usually called by this name when a man does not desire it, either as an end or as a means, but when he nevertheless commits an act which in effect involves death, as when he devotes himself to the care of the plague-stricken knowing that he will succumb under the task.
Depression is nothing to scoff at. I am relieved that times have changed and depression is seen as a disease and not a character flaw as much in 2011. My son is in Afghanistan in the 82nd Airborne. If he displayed any signs and symptoms of depression, I would want medical treatment for him not empty words telling him to "buck up" or "pull himself up by his boot straps". Although this is an old film for 2011, it still portrays the stigma that depression is something you can just "will away". Depression is the lack of serotonin, norepinephrine, or dopamine in the brain. Antidepressants help by slowing down the reuptake of these chemicals between the synapses of the nerve cells in the brain.
I am a poet and a nurse. As one of my poems says, "Don't kill yourself, you are worth so much. You are a great wealth to all the other lives you touch." If you are depressed, keep screaming loudly until you are heard.
I am a poet and a nurse. As one of my poems says, "Don't kill yourself, you are worth so much. You are a great wealth to all the other lives you touch." If you are depressed, keep screaming loudly until you are heard.