Help me to paraphrasing couple sentence.

But it is hard to fix the precise instant, the subtle step when the mind opted for death; it is easier to deduce from the act itself the conse-quences it implies. In a sense, and as in melo-drama, killing yourself amounts to confessing. It is confessing that life is too much for you or that you do not understand it. Let’s not go too far in such analogies, however, but rather return to everyday words.