mentalblog.com comments:
I heard about this. Don't you think she had some other stuff going on and it all can't be blamed on shidduchim ? Also, it seems like she was not from the ultra pressure groups like chareidim and chassidim.
Tzemach, Thanks for the link.
Onionsoupmix, I think she had some other stuff going on and it can't all (or perhaps even at all) based on shidduchim. The vast, vast majority of people who commit suicide are clinically depressed.
Having said that, I think it's sad that even in the Modern Orthodox community, which she was part of, some people consider a 25 year old woman to be "over the hill." It's crazy (in my opinion).
It's a terrible thing to look at a future once imagined so rich and full and see a blank. It's as though one's path in life has reached the edge of a cliff without an opposite horizon. Only empty space, nothingness, lies ahead.
It takes a lot of time, hard work, psychotherapy and medication to build a new life, to refrain from looking back at what once was, is no more and never will be again. The lesson of Lot's wife is this: Do not fixate upon the past.
I don't think everyone thought Sarah was "over the hill." The problem was, she did.
This is an old thread, but some of these comments are missing the target.
Suicide is an intensely personal experience. Even if we are close to the person in question, it will be near impossible to appreciate the driving forces in such a decision - and all the moreso with someone we know little or nothing about.
In pretty much all cases, suicides(both successful and attempted) are attempts to escape unbearable pain - real or imagined, physical or mental.
Avoiding suicide does not necessarily involve therapy or medications, though this might be part of the plan. Social pressures on shidduchim or other issues may contribute to someone's pain but there are probably other factors at work as well.
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