I stand by my opinion, it may not be the most popular but its what I believe, and I am not going to change my mind anytime soon.
I've never been clinically depressed or diagnosed, but I have had my own black periods in my life, where I felt the world would be better off without me. And then I look into the eyes of the 3 furry little creatures that depend on me and stopped those thinkings right now. I know several people whose family members, father, sister, brother, mom killed themselves, and I know what those people deal with day to day. I work with a woman whose sister hung herself well over 10 years ago and to this day has full blown drop on the floor anxiety attacks when someone mentions 'hanging'.
I work with young woman whose dad killed himself when she was 4 and at almost 30 she is still dealing with the repercussions of that.