Go easy. For many people depression comes in cycles. While the threat is always there, I think the parent poster has a good point.<p>Yes, when someone is in the throes of depression, it's all-encompassing. However, when they're feeling okay, they might well have a hard time even remembering how or why they got so close to the brink. That's what I understand by the parent poster's use of "temporary problem".<p>One can't un-suicide, but one can potentially endure until a brighter day, although if one is truly suicidal, it doesn't seem that way.<p>I.e. The depression isn't temporary. It's the crisis point where suicide seems like the only good alternative that is temporary.