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Survival Instinct

Collective Proof

by RealTalk30 8/27/2013

written by RealTalk30

I was just commenting and this idea crossed my mind. Ill try not to get too detailed.

Your life is the only proof of your consciousness; your ideas of right and wrong, your creativity and compassion, your love and fears.
Collectively this is what makes up our humanity, it’s what really matters in the end to us. Not our hate for each other or our wars, or our neglect for our own.

Collectively our consciousness is what has kept our speciese going all this time, otherwise we would be food for other animals. But we cling to life because we know it’s the right thing to […]

8/27/2013 17 comments

First Post

by TickTock 6/28/2013

written by TickTock

As I see it there are three things preventing us from leaving this horrid planet:

1. The survival instinct. It’s hard wired into our brains from millions of years of evolution, and I think we all know, whether we have attempted or not, how powerful it is.

2. The values that have been bread into us since birth. We live in a world of mental slavery. A small number of insanely wealthy and powerful people control thge rest of the population, using them to maintain their power and wealth. Yet they don’t do this with chains, whips, and dogs. Instead, bread into us since birth are the […]

6/28/2013 12 comments

Why haven’t I killed myself yet?

by tupacorbiggie 5/21/2013

written by tupacorbiggie

My life is a miserable hell. Â I should have been dead like 5 years ago when my life was over. Â My survival instinct pisses me off. Â Why is it so hard to kill yourself?

5/21/2013 6 comments

Every moment is torture

by tupacorbiggie 5/10/2013

written by tupacorbiggie

My mental state is pure agony and torture. Â I need to end this suffering. Â But I continue on in hopes somehow I’ll get better. Â Knowing full well it won’t. Â I’m living in denial because my survival instinct is so strong.

5/10/2013 6 comments

Alone

by DawgMom 4/19/2013

written by DawgMom

I think the thing I realize most about getting closer to killing myself is the isolation. I struggle with feeling like no one cares – or notices – when I talk about it. So, as I get closer I stop talking. No one seems to care – or notice – that either.

The reality of suicide is that you’re alone in it. You will go alone and you have to be able accept that. Whether others care or notice doesn’t matter. No one can or will save you. Until you accept that, you’ll stay. When you accept that, you won’t try, you’ll do. It’s simple, I […]

4/19/2013 10 comments

We are all together

by DavidD 3/15/2013

written by DavidD

In reading the many comments here I am struck by the community of pain that we all share.Â There is strength to be found in this since it allows us to see that we are not entirely alone and that there are others out there who are suffering just as intensely.Â This is a comfort in many ways.

Over the past 2 years I have tried on no fewer than 4 occasions to end my life.Â After each failure I found a way to convince myself that “God wanted me to live”.Â I am now in the process of my 5th and hopefully last attempt.Â Rather […]

3/15/2013 12 comments

Pressure

by makeupboy 3/13/2013

written by makeupboy

Anyone else feel the pressure to take their life? That life has completely stopped and the pressure from life itself and everybody else is building up? That nothing’s going right or it’s moving too slow? That you’re almost at breakpoint, ready to take the plunge and do something you can’t go back on? I do. The hardest part for me is leaving (first move) cause I wouldn’t kill myself where I live currently. I can pack all my belongs into a suitcase – everything. I’d like to do that and dispose of it on my way out. I struggle to pack that suitcase. Survival instinct […]

3/13/2013 4 comments

I don’t agree with life

by cyanidesofmarch 12/28/2012

written by cyanidesofmarch

I guess we all have different reasons for being here. For me it keeps coming back to the same thing: I’m not convinced that life is a good thing.

All living things are born with some sort of survival instinct. But has anyone rationalized why we should want to live? I think it’s just some sort of selfish programming, like the desire to take whatever you want. In the case of taking things (stealing), we’ve learned to suppress that instinct. Mindless carnal instincts like rape & violence are mostly suppressed too. But still there’s that ridiculous “self preservation” thing that nobody ever questions.

Maybe I was born […]

12/28/2012 6 comments

5 years ago

by hollywood1919 10/18/2012

written by hollywood1919

5 Years ago today is when I tried to ctb. I was 16.
The events around it that triggered it, I admit, were bullshit but my reasoning behind it was not.
I got home from school. the bullshit that happened was that I thought I lost a friend, someone I loved, due to some stupid shit that happened that I thought was my fault. I blamed myself for everything back then. That’s what triggered it. My reason behind wanting to die is that I saw myself as a worthless person who could never do anything right and would never amount to anything in life. I […]

10/18/2012 4 comments

getting closer

by Atlanta27 9/4/2012

written by Atlanta27

Ive tryed several times, and im very setiois aboit ending my life, itz just my survival instinct wont let me..but i will find a way to over come that and die.

9/4/2012 0 comment