Status Updates From The Noonday Demon: An Atlas...

“Knowing that if I get through this minute I could always kill myself in the next one makes it possible to get through this minute without being utterly overwhelmed… The thought of suicide makes it possible to get through depression” page 283

i have just completed the chapter regarding suicide. i really appreciate Andrew Solomon for how he approaches this subject. he writes from a place of empathy and understanding. it is emphasized that there are countless reasons why a person could be drawn to take their own life and one reason isn’t necessarily more valid than the other. ‘suicide is the mind’s rebellion against itself’ (page 282).