I watched this video yesterday and this guy was talking about why we choose suicide. He explained that depression shrinks our perception until the only choice is suicide. If the only choice is suicide, then you’re not really choosing it. You are “forced” to go through with the one option you have left, and that’s taking your own life.
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I agree, but I think it’s more then just depression but also our outlook on our future. For example, would you commit suicide if you knew your life was going to get better? Probably not. But a lot of times (like me) we look at our future and don’t see any hope of it getting better, maybe we’ll never find that job, never get that girl, never be healthier, never have a family, never have whatever it is we want. Then suicide becomes a more logical decision to us.
Yeah, my choice was well considered in a calm and not very depressed state of mind. I really hate how all these experts keep trying to convince the general public that everybody who commits suicide has a ‘mental illness’.
Exactly! It’s so stupid that people who wish to die are immediately labeled as, “mentally ill” or “not in their right mind”. My decision to die was based on a logical outlook and a lot of time thinking and weighing the goods/bads. Not because I have some “mental illness”.
I agree with both of you.
Only wish there were better options available to us.
@mysteriousvistor I so agree with you. My moron doctor and nurse think I have a mental illness. They spend so much time in school studying suicide and that’s the only conclusion they can come up with
The thing that sucks and makes me an undesirable example for *anybody* is that I really do seem to have an endogenous component to my depression. However, while it affects my functioning (fatigue, sleep disturbance, partial apathy) it doesn’t affect my reason for leaving. I never *feel* suicidal. It is a decision, not a compulsion.
So true. Hit the nail on the head
For fuck’s saaaaaaaaake … this topic has been beaten to death and then resurrected and beaten to death again.
mysteriousVisitor – we need to put a lid on this epidemic of misinformation
If it’s not a choice then what is then? I see it has the last choice. Is there something I’m missing?
Please make me understand
If you have to choose suicide, it’s a choice. Your perspective is limited by isolation and insulation, hiding your mind from different possibilities, but those possibilities exist and can be discovered, sometimes by pure accident. Outside that insulating effect, though, it may well be a pragmatic decision, as in the case of people suffering from terminal illnesses, or struggling under some other inescapable social reality.
In summary, Mewtwo, I choose you! I don’t choose Pikachu, because screw Pikachu. Boo.