There's also mindsets that "normal" people don't understand but are *way* too understandable if you've been there.

Years back I encountered an item about a particular "kind" of suicide. Folks who had everything going great and suicided.

The explanation scared me silly because I could *so* see how seductive it was.

They did it because they'd had a life of ups and downs and didn't want to risk having another "down". *shudder*

I talked about it with a friend who was one of the moderators of an online abuse survivors group we both belonged to (on the old CompuServe Human Sexuality forums).

We both agreed that it made a scary amount of sense. And that we'd never, *ever* mention it in the group.