I recommend avoiding suicide ideation entirely. Taking mild hallucinogenics can help you change perspective. Or exercise and very hot baths.Depression is perfectly natural, it exists to help you, by deterring you from risk taking. That's the reason why a lot of people find they become low without a seemingly rational reason. Everything is going great for them more or less, and then suddenly pow. This is your body telling you to slow down before you burnout. A good way to avoid melancholy is to become angry. Anger encourages risk taking behavior and is a great motivator for destructive or, less well appreciated, constructive behavior. Fact is: Nobody who was happy with their lives has ever changed the world. If you're happy, the status quo is good for you. Logically happy people are also useless people. People need problems to encourage them to strive onwards and upwards so much that we invented an economic system that generates them for us in the form of recessions. If you don't believe that, look at what happens when average people have everything they could reasonably want. Mid-life crises all over the place, or obsessions with completely irrelevant bullshit.Further to that, the idea that happiness is the purpose of life is a pernicious and simple minded lie. If we wanted to be happy until death we'd inject a lifetime supply of dopamine and serotonin into our veins. There would be watch-like gadgets for that purpose on everybody's wrists. We don't, or only take substances that encourage such chemical release occasionally with periods of non-use because we know to be permanently happy would be awful. The purpose of life is to do things worth being happy about.QuoteI wasn't asked if I wanted to be a human or a duck or a giraffe.I want to become a platypus. They sleep all day, eat half their body weight in food, are remarkably fluffy and it is clear they don't take the other animals seriously. They got it all figured out, asymmetric cryptography and everything. Perhaps with genetic engineering it will be possible one day :)http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/006/cache/platypus_662_600x450.jpgLook at those eyes! That's wisdom right there!