There are many answers to this question and not all of them are simple. Many times people experience normal feelings of sadness, anxiety, and despair. Everyone does at some point. However, people with a mental illness can get overwhelmed with these normal reactions to events that occur throughout life. It can become so extreme that it leads to hopelessness and suicidal feelings ("NAMI").
People also may have many underlining problems in their lives that can trigger the thoughts and ideas of taking their own life. These problems and feelings may include:- Being ashamed or guilty
- Feeling like a burden
- Feeling like a victim
- Rejection or loneliness
- Experiencing aging
- Recent death of a loved one
- Dependence on drugs or alcohol
- Emotional trauma
- Serious physical illness
- Unemployment
- Money problems (Vorvick).
Other people take their own life because they want to keep up their reputation. Sometimes they kill themselves because they don't want to be humiliated or degraded. Other times they want to make themselves a martyr for a cause. They want to draw attention to themselves and create a memory of their life that others will look up to someday (Giesman).
Many people don't actually want to kill themselves but they think it is the only way out. They don't see any other way of getting out of their bad situations ("NAMI").
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