I think this was a good episode. Do I think it was the best episode I've seen thus far? No. I read many people's reviews and one person's review stuck out to me.
Mental health isn't black or white. There isn't a "how to" guide or a checklist on what you should do if you decide you want to commit suicide. There are so many reasons people commit suicide. I had someone I loved dearly commit suicide and he seemed happy and showed zero signs that he was unhappy or any possibility he was thinking about suicide. Actually went on a vacation right before it happened. There was no note left behind. Was there a reason or reasons why he did it? I'm sure there were reasons. We will never know.
We as humans are complex beings. Not everyone wears their emotions on their sleeves and some prefer to keep their own issues private. Some of us know the actor left to work at the White House under Obama and others don't. So many are angry and saying that the writers suck and they could have chosen a different way to write him off than suicide as it didn't "fit" his character. That's the thing. With mental health, not everything "fits" the norm. They could have chosen 100 ways to write him off, but they chose this. Accept it and move on. Maybe once you lose someone to suicide in the real world you will realize that what happened in this episode actually does happen fairly often.
Mental health isn't black or white. There isn't a "how to" guide or a checklist on what you should do if you decide you want to commit suicide. There are so many reasons people commit suicide. I had someone I loved dearly commit suicide and he seemed happy and showed zero signs that he was unhappy or any possibility he was thinking about suicide. Actually went on a vacation right before it happened. There was no note left behind. Was there a reason or reasons why he did it? I'm sure there were reasons. We will never know.
We as humans are complex beings. Not everyone wears their emotions on their sleeves and some prefer to keep their own issues private. Some of us know the actor left to work at the White House under Obama and others don't. So many are angry and saying that the writers suck and they could have chosen a different way to write him off than suicide as it didn't "fit" his character. That's the thing. With mental health, not everything "fits" the norm. They could have chosen 100 ways to write him off, but they chose this. Accept it and move on. Maybe once you lose someone to suicide in the real world you will realize that what happened in this episode actually does happen fairly often.