@5 ...and just think of how much worse this would be if GBP was a guy!

Yeah.
Look around: the gay world is FILLED with loving same-sex male couples in stable, long-term relationships who met during anonymous or nearly anonymous sexual encounters, aka unknown and unfamiliar hookups.

Really.

Met my husband of twenty years at a party that ended in an orgy. Only later did we get to know each other.

@11 Yer a bigot. A hater. A small mind. A passing fart in a wonderful world.

12
ah. the old 'bag over the head so someone will fuck you' trick.
congratulations.

13
yer jealous.

@27 Which honestly isn't surprising since the biggest risk for suicide because of depression is early into the improvement of depression. At the depths of depression, people often have suicidal thoughts, but they usually lack enough motivation and energy to actually commit to going through with it. As depression begins to improve, since it usually will improve over time (sometimes then re-occurring of course, but it generally doesn't stay at one constant level and often it does get better and stays better for long periods of time) you reach a point where a person has more relative motivation and energy than they've gotten used to, but are still badly depressed and keenly aware of how bad things can be. That's the high-risk point, but it's happening on the upswing, so if they pull through that, then things tend to get a bit better and then a bit more better, and the urge for suicide often passes. It's especially sad, to me at least, that so often when a suicide occurs, things truly would have gotten better soon.

This doesn't map to all cases of suicide, of course. It's just a very common one.

Also, suicides are seasonal. Again, not all of them, of course, but suicide season is also what is called "the holiday season" by most people. Basically, December-January are when suicides are most likely (this info may be northern-hemisphere based, I have no idea if studies have shown similar results in the Southern hemisphere, and I strongly suspect that sunlight exposure is a relevant factor for many people, since if you have some SAD (seasonal affect disorder) issues adding to a current depression it may tip you over). Part of the reasoning though is that holidays are hard on many people. If you are alone, they can make you feel more alone. If you don't get along that well with your family, it can be a stresser to spend more time with them. People often build them up in their heads as times that ought to be especially happy, and then the reality of them feels darker and bleaker. January is also divorce season for related reasons, plus some couples putting off separation until after holidays.

Anyhow, if you get someone through that particularly difficult time, then the more typical routine of life returns, and in the Northern hemisphere, spring returns, and things often feel a bit better. Walking outside with exposure to grass and dirt and sunlight does seem to have some mild antidepressant effects, and that's hard to do in the winter. So, a lot of people just need help getting through the really low point until things ease up. I have long suspected there is a reason we try to fill the dark days of December with holidays that involve festive lights.