Are many or a little bit of suicidal people "accomplished"?

[LovingLoverReturned]

I notice some very high achieving people commit suicide. I'm wondering about it.

I know it's a mental health problem that needs professional help. Hopefully those feeling that way tell somebody. But it is also a responsibility of loved ones to inquire and be observant to attitude changes. I understand though that it's not easy to do and especially if those loved ones are not so nice or have their own problems.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, you notice that because you only hear about it when it's an accomplished person. No one talks about the scores of un-accomplished folks who kill themselves. They'll WAY outnumber the accomplished ones. If I had to guess probably by the same amount as in the broader population.

[LovingLoverReturned]

Hmmm

I have seen due to pressure in some societes for men to provide , husband's do murder suicide. Interesting really. I don't know any Wives to do murder suicide.

Then there are some bullied youngsters , any gender very young,

I've seen incels (those who fail at romantic relationships) in particular

Etc

Since the unaccomplished are more variety makes sense if the percentage is higher.
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But maybe suicide won't be related to socio economic status since they say it is a mental illness.. can failure usually bring about mental illness... it doesn't happen to everyone... 🤔

[Opinion Owner]

Yeah, I don't know if it'd be more correlated to economic success, more correlated to economic failure, or not correlated. My guess would be little to no correlation since there are probably important forces going in both directions. Obviously some people become despondent from economic failure and it pushes them over the edge from depression to suicide. (There was a spate of suicides amongst Indian farmers some years ago that came around the time of a bad economic shock to them.) On the other hand, plenty of characteristics that correlate with economic success like obsessiveness, drive, high-strung energy, and some forms of "genius" can also correlate with a tendency to kill oneself. So my guess would be little relationship.

[Markie-mark]

I've completely rethinked depression, it's not some fucking fog that comes out of nowhere and ruins you. To me, it's born out of internally knowing there's just somerhing wrong with the world in which we live.

[Snsl153]

"... in one impetuous moment, she made the rash decision to end her earthly life" - I seriously doubt that. As someone who used to be suicidal, the thought of ending it all early was something that was never rash or impetuous, with a lot of planning going into how, when, where and under what circumstances I would call it quits. She would have been thinking about it for months, if not years.

[Still-alive]

I think it might have to do with that constant need to achieve and do well that if they do anything less than that they feel inadequate or useless. A perfectionist type personality in a way

[Still-alive]

Like getting a B on a test or coming in 2nd in a race is just unacceptable to them and feel worthless when they do less then perfect