I don't understand why Gary Speed took his own life, I can't imagine how fractured a state a mind he would have to have been in to contemplate putting a rope around his own neck and snap it in two rather than go through another minute of living.
To me that's horrific and truly terrifying.
I hope that nobody that I know or care about ever reaches such a desolate isolated stage.
We're most of us lucky enough never to have been in that dark place but chances are it could hit anyone here at anytime in their lives.
It's known that people who do suffer severe depression end up taking their own lives because they can't talk about what's killing them from the inside.
That's why people often do not see it coming, that's why there is shock when it happens.
It's not surprising really given how harshly and contemptuously people who have this illness are judged.
