SUICIDE FROM THE FEELING OF SHAME AND GUILT

Many incidents of suicide result from an intense feeling of shame or guilt. A scan through both the social and main stream media platforms will reveal a litany of such horrific instances. This underscores the fact that suicide is not necessarily a poverty or hunger induced phenomenon. An intense feeling of shame or guilt may trigger depression. Some of the things about which people may become shameful include bankruptcy, adultery , failed relationship and other sexual offenses or failure. Anything that people are having difficulty loving about themselves and don't want the world to know about them,that then gets exposed,can also lead to suicide to escape from a resultant social humiliation.