It’s suicide vs the survival instinct.
Both ideas and feelings generated from the same brain. So why would the brain want us to survive and die ? wheres the logic ?
a short example:
experiencing a full manic episode, you a hold a knife up to your heart, you’re convinced all you wanna do is jam that baby in there, it starts with a nice big confident swing but then just before impact your arm goes soft ? or your mind goes numb and nothing happens ?? And for what. What possible reason
Some kind of fucked up cosmic joke.
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Well sometimes we really want to die because our life sucks. but we also have an ingrained instinct to survive. Like if somebody starts to choke you. you will automatically fight to get free.
that is the reason why people sometimes get really drunk or high on drugs before they commit suicide so they can override that instinct to survive. Other people think they want to die but when push comes to shove they cant do it because they either don’t really want to die > or they don’t have the guts to go through with it because they don’t know whats on the other side.
Conscious modern brain vs subconscious instinctual drive from the primeval ancient part of our brains, I guess. Underneath it all we are biological creatures with an instinct to survive.
I don’t think it’s so much wanting to die at the root of it, but wanting things to be goddamn different somehow – wanting things to be easier, or not so stupidly complicated. So dying sounds like an alternative that’s simpler, less laden with bureaucrats, not as many telemarketers, etc. The problem is, dying isn’t really the best option because then you won’t be around to experience the good things this fucked up tangle of stupidity is preventing you from experiencing right now, and that reality is set deep in your psyche.
Living beings aren’t built for self-deliverance. It’s even considered completely unnatural by people who haven’t gone through suicidal pain.
(Other) animals don’t really end their lives consciously, do they? At least that’s what I’ve read. Suicide is supposedly super rare and limited to few species, which kind of fascinates me. We’re not all that different from animals so it makes sense our bodies still fight what the brain knows is the right thing to do.
nice stuff guys, especially you @thousandCuts thats getting written down on my fridge. Cheers