Being Suicidal does not mean you have depression

• mental health problems
  
• bullying or discrimination, including racism
  
• different types of abuse, including domestic, sexual or physical abuse
  
• bereavement, including losing a loved one to suicide
  
• the end of a relationship
  
• long-term physical pain or illness
  
• adjusting to a big change, such as retirement or redundancy
  
• money problems 
  
• housing problems, including homelessness
  
• isolation or loneliness
  
• being in prison
  
• feeling inadequate or a failure
  
• addiction or substance abuse
  
• pregnancy, childbirth or postnatal depression
  
• doubts about your sexual or gender identity
  
• cultural pressure, such as forced marriage
  
• other forms of trauma.
  

• Certain personality traits, such as low self-esteem and being too dependent, self-critical or pessimistic
  
• Traumatic or stressful events, such as physical or sexual abuse, the death or loss of a loved one, a difficult relationship, or financial problems
  
• Blood relatives with a history of depression, bipolar disorder, alcoholism or suicide
  
• Being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, or having variations in the development of genital organs that aren't clearly male or female (intersex) in an unsupportive situation
  
• History of other mental health disorders, such as anxiety disorder, eating disorders or post-traumatic stress disorder
  
• Abuse of alcohol or recreational drugs
  
• Serious or chronic illness, including cancer, stroke, chronic pain or heart disease
  
• Certain medications, such as some high blood pressure medications or sleeping pills (talk to your doctor before stopping any medication)
  

increasing hopeless[ness] and worthless[ness] for some time.