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“ Even if we accept the view that biochemical imbalances may contribute to depression and suicide, it is a mistake to assume that the biochemical aspect of the problem is entirely within the victim. It is also partly within the physiological makeup of the people around the suicide. ”

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The depressed and the suicidal are often lonely and inhibited. Discussions of inhibition in this context usually emphasize fear of rejection.

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Self-destructive behaviors do not exist because there is a force within us that tries to hasten our return to an inorganic state, they exist because they provide short-term relief from pain that threatens to become intolerable.

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If someone suffers enough pain and abuse, his volitional capacities will diminish to nothing.

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To be subjected to pain that threatens to exceed coping resources is not something that people choose.

~ David L. Conroy

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