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As a kid, I was sometimes suicidal. I thought I didn't like being alive.
It turned out I just didn't like being a kid. I simply had nothing else to compare it to until I attained and got to try out being an adult. (Which is awesome.)
This wasn't so much about failing to have hope as it was failing to realize that there was a thing to be hoped for. I didn't have anyone telling me that being an adult was really really cool and would make me happy, so I didn't expect it as a kid. So, I guess my statement is that there should be black-swan hope for things no one has bothered to put forth as happiness-inducers.
As a general note to whom it may concern: I consider it (deontologically) wrong to bring mental health professionals into the life of a non-dangerous-to-others person whose sanest available preferences indicate that they don't want such professionals. I am not a professional of any stripe myself, but I am willing to converse with (a non-overwhelming number of) sad people if they want someone to talk to.
I had a brief time when I thought suicide would be a good idea. It was when I was a kid with little personal autonomy, my life sucked, and I believed in an afterlife. But I wasn't depressed enough or determined enough to go through with it, and since then all three of those circumstances have improved. Now life is awesome.
Edit for clarity: There was very little chance I was going to do it. I don't have a biological tendency to depression, and I don't expect to ever be that depressed again.