I spent quite a long time unable to get thoughts of suicide out of my mind. This is something all manic depressives experience. Many manic depressive attempt suicide, and some do kill themselves. Hearing about this suicide has brought back a lot of painful memories, memories that I would much rather avoid. It also disturbs me for a deeper reason.
Most people think that the things they experience and that they believe are real.
But I believe they were wrong, and were very deeply deluded. The news depicted this event as something very unusual, strange and uncommon. What disturbs me though, is not that this is so unusual. Not that big groups of people poison themselves all the time, but that I think that the grip we have on reality is a lot more tenuous than most people believe. I don't mean just mentally ill people, I mean everyone - including average, normal people.