Hello, to those who read this. My name is John and I saw this website and I want to share my story. When I was 10, I really got into Chemistry and BioChemistry. And after a few years of studying the subjects, my philosophical view of life changed, and not in a good way. I had a fear of everything because my mind wouldn’t stop racing with ideas every night in bed. Some might find this silly, or stupid at that, but it really affected me. And, it made me lose my love for life that I had devoloped during my life. However, it was when I got into theoretical physics when the depression started. I had thoughts such as, If there is an infinite number of universes than what is the value of one man’s life when there are infinite other men? Or my fear to do anything outside of my room because it had felt as though my perception of time had sped up, and how I viewed anything that I didn’t want to do would be to give up fractions of my life that could’ve been spent on something else, and I started taking the words “Waste of Time” too far and couldn’t sleep at night because I felt as though my life could’ve been spent on something else. My skin had started to get pale and I started losing unhealthy ammounts of weight. When I started to notice the changes I felt horrified at the sight of my image. And a tried to hang myself a week later. But luckily my dad had found me and save my life, however, I felt as though he had betrayed me at the time. However my mind developed new thoughts that had further damaged my mental stability. See, at the time, I was an Atheist, and I started to convert to Christianity because my fear of death had risen due to the idea that if i didn’t believe in God, I wouldn’t have an afterlife to go to. Making me fear both life and death, and I was finally taken to my first psychiatrist.This really helped me for the state I was in at the time, and though I still had bad thoughts but I was feeling better. That was, until my Uncle, Scott died. My fear of death came right back and I stopped making any social contact with anyone for a few weeks. And just before the beginning of my 8th grade year, I was taken to talk to a philosopher. This helped me find someone who had experienced the same problems I had been experiencing at the time. I eventually started to feel better in life when I started High School. I managed to gain back my confidence and be able to regularly sleep again. I’m 22 years old and Majoring in Forensics. My point is that if you can find someone who understands you, talk about your depression with them. It helped me, and it only helps when you can express yourself. Don’t hold back your feelings. Suicide is never a good idea.
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That’s great that you found someone who really understood what you were going through. I knew there was a real world application for philosophy.
Well, there are different reasons for suicide, your was a bit lame, no offense 🙂 This shows us the importance of philosophy or the ability to think preciously and well (like Pascal said). You totally missinterpreted science and got into loop of thinking. Science is just science and you cannot apply it in this way to your everyday life.
Hm, so you experienced an existential crisis regarding the concept of self and time. It’s good that you found your way out of that crisis. However, it is rather foolish to get depressed over science through your misguided views.
Usually science and philosophy don’t mix, they are like oil and water. When scientists first figured out how to split an atom, did it occur to them their research would lead to weapons of mass destruction? It’s doubtful unless weapons were their end goal. If scientists considered consequences, various things wouldn’t have been discovered and made.
I don’t think thats the case. Science will always progress no matter what, because of human curiosity. And I think its good. Those Hitlers would be doing ugly things even without science…
Science and philosophy are two sides to the same coin. Up until fairly recently, everyone considered them the same thing.
i just dont understand this post..it makes no sense….
only to you 🙂
sorry?
I mean its crazy, but I can see where the author is coming from.
I can’t believe anyone would say lame about someones suicide readons on this site and quite frankly I don’t undetstan what is there not to understand in this post. In short it is a clear cut case of exsistential depression- which is a real subtype of depressions. clearly the author here is highly interligent and that might be also the reason many people just don’t get it and say he is “foolish” “misguided” to make themselves look/feel “smarter”. Also, smartasses, there is such thing like philosophy of science, science and philosophy are never truly seperatable.
Yes, they were lame, because it was just thinking problem. Most of us have deep rooted problems which are sometimes super hard to change. Also it wasn’t anything dehonesting op, noone said he is foolish or misguided, just his view and thoughts were those and once he changed those, he got better. Nothing really strange here and we were happy that he found it 🙂
“Just thinking” problem. I guess you would make a good psychologist. ” oh, you think of suicide because of philosophical reasons? Come on that’s not even serious problem, there are people with ACTUAL problems, but your thoughts are just foolish. I am sure you understand it yourself when you think about it. So, Stop being a ***** and start dealing with REAL life, cause obviously you are misguided about it. Call me when you think like a NORMAL person again. 🙂 “
Or “Call me when you have real deep rooted problems what you can’t change. Then will talk and you can be taken seriously about suicide or anything. 🙂 “