It baffles me that people still treat depression as a matter of choice. Depression is a mental ILLNESS. Suicidal thoughts and desires are as much a medical symptom as a tumour in cancer sufferers.
Whether the depression is chemical or situational, the fact remains: clinical depression is an illness and needs to be treated with as much respect and attention as any physical ailment.
If a terminally ill person came in here and said the pain was too much to handle and they wanted their life to end, there would be a helluva lot more understanding and patience. Why is mental/emotional/psychological pain viewed as so inferior or unworthy of that recognition?
I personally do not support suicide but simply because I maintain that no hole is too deep to dig yourself out of if you have even the smallest life anchor to hold on to (in this case OP has his/her child). Once you gather some momentum, your happiness snowballs and before you know it, you're a functional, non suicidal person again.
Vasbyt.