Common myth "If people want to die by suicide, we can't stop them."

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33. I've been doing the research

for over thirty years. There is nothing you can tell me about it that I didn't already know before the end of the eighties.

Who is more likely to suffer from serious depression? (That term is a misnomer, but we'll let that go for now), People who can't afford treatment. Wellbutrin runs about a dollar a tab. A good therapist is about $100 to $150 dollars an hour. Any number of external stressors associated with low income serve to make the need for help and the possibility of getting it inversely proportional.

By the same token, those who can afford treatment get it , and are less likely to need it. Those who are financially secure have less to worry about and more time for personal fulfillment. A fair chunk of the mental health industry is devoted to helping the "worried well" because that's where the money is.

25% of the homeless population are veterans. Almost half the population of this country is either below the poverty line or working poor. They need something more than some scheme to "keep guns out of the hands of the psychologically unstable" whatever that means.

Instead of surfing up blurbs from a rag like Psychology Today why don't you figure out how to equitably disarm depressed people and get back to us.

http://www.nchv.org/background.cfm

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/16/9500721-census-bureau-clarifies-poverty-numbers