46,000 people committed suicide in America in 2016.

This was an emotional comment I posted earlier about Depression and Mental Illness.

If anyone has any question about their mental health. Do not wait one more day! Go to a good psychiatrist, get a proper diagnosis and the medication that you need. Don't let stigma or ignorance by anyone stop you from getting the help you need. It is your life, not theirs.
I've suffered with chronic severe depression my entire life. I've also been a chronic worrier. I had years of crying outbursts as a child. So many times I was at the brink of killing myself. The stigma and the ignorance about mental health is causing thousands of suicides in this country every year. No one in my life, not the school system, until a girlfriend when I was in my mid 20s, had recognized the signs and urged me to see a psychiatrist. Because she persisted and helped me push past my Dad's ignorance and judgement, fear of what family and friends would think, fear of the unknown and a learned fear of psychiatric medication, I was able to get a proper diagnosis and medication. Talk therapy helped, but I needed medication too. When you are in the emergency room wrything in physical pain they don't schedule you for talk therapy a month ahead and send you home. They hook a morphine drip to you immediately. It can take a long time to find the right meds, but it must be done. I want a cure for depression, no one even talks about finding cures for mental illnesses the way cures are being sought for every other illness.