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Well, after being as vague as humanly possible, writting about a specific topic in bleak metaphors, and discussing psychology in terms of "The Force", let me just jump back on topic just for a moment here.
Having taken a number of psychology courses, I'm going to clarify real quick that there is a difference between killing yourself due to the loss of a loved one and killing yourself due to anhedonia. Though the two can be related in terms of emotional distress, the actual reason/cause is differently motivated behind each.
The few and rare cases of depression that end in (and are the reason for) suicide are basically the extreme instances of clinical depression. The people who kill themselves due to this kind of depression generally don't have financial problems or extreme emotional stress weighing them down from the outside. Alot of times they're middle aged males happily married with children who have good job security. However, due to a chemical imbalance, it's absolutely impossible for these people to be happy alot of times. Every day is gloomy, cold, and hopelessly pessimistic for these individuals. This isn't your standard case of "the blues" where you just walk out of the doctor's office with a prescription of zoloft and a smile.
Considering true clinical depression isn't caused by "the breakup" or most trivial (sometimes genuinely tragic) events, it's generally pretty easy to isolate instances where the person has committed suicide as a form of escape from the depression itself. In these cases, it's the anhedonia that's tearing them apart, not the death of a loved one, or because of a traumatic experience.
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