i always think people who end their own lives are so selfish
cause if you had been through such pain that you choose death over everything else
how could you bear passing those pains to others
i remember reading a story that the author started with "people who choose death over life dont deserve life at all" it was a story about a friend living with the pain that his friend passed to him
well, i believe people have rights to do whatever they want with their lives
but i hope everyone knows that
if your pain were that damaging, how could you do it after imagining what is going to do with others
sorry, it's difficult for me to make sense in this
But ppl with severe depression aren't thinking like that. I'm sorry to say, and this is probably going to be unpopular, but depression and selfishness go hand in hand. All your feeling are turned inward, and you get absorbed in how miserable YOU are. The idea that your death is negatively affecting other doesn't occur to you.
no, i cant agree with that
i've been living with my mental illness since 13 (6 years now)
and it is actually the reason why i want my life to be gone AND the reason why i havent done that
cause i know what it can do to a person so i rather hold it in than letting my parents, family members, friends ever feel the same
not to mention the feeling one has when someone they know choose to leave
Almighty and rosa, both of you are right. There is a certain scale of selfishness when it comes to suicide, and reasoning can range to extreme lengths, from petty problems to family issues. However, after realizing how selfish it was I stopped thinking about the topic of suicide, and haven't touched it in years. I am doing plenty better now, but I am now only suffering from sleep deprivation and other small in-something something cuts I forgot the word xd. TL DR both of you are right in your own sense, and I completely agree with both of you.
Honestly fuck these kind of post because they do nothing to help people with depression. It basically says they should feel guilty for being suicdal. My friend was very depressed but never got help because his family thought he had no reason to be sad and was only thinking about himself. To me calling suicide selfish mirrors that exact thinking. Yeah it may be selfish that a person makes others grieve but suicide means that a person was in so much pain they didn't think they had anyway out of. Some people can't just stop thinking about suicide, it consumes them. So yes people do 'selfish' things when they are suffering that much but depression should be met with more understanding than just saying you should get help or think about your family because sometimes the pain is bad you can't think about those things.
I feel like you may have misunderstood. We're not saying the pain isn't legitimate, or that depression can be cured by simply thinking of others and forcing yourself to be positive.
But maybe posts like this can give SOME ppl a different perspective on what they're thinking, and maybe that could motivate them to take a step in the right direction. That seems like a good thing to me.
And acknowledging that a certain kind of thinking a selfish isn't necessarily not understanding a person's feelings. It'd certainly not calling them bad people. It's just one part of a complex issue. Ppl that suffer from depression need to see that fact as much as the ppl that care about them.
To be honest there were times in my life that i attempted suicide, but i always stopped when i was going to kick the chair. My reason for suicide? Because i was sick with life. my parents wont let me interact with other kids i had no friends. i was bullied. i was always inside the house staring at nothing. The reason i always stopped when i was about to kick the chair? Years ago i realized Family is family you know. even though they give me no space if i killed myself it could start a chain of events that could ruin my family, like my mom and dad would devorce, and my brothers and sister would run away, and my grandparents would die of sadness. i didnt want that so a couple years ago i stopped thinking about it completely. or so i thought what i really did was i decided i would only stop for now as if my family was the reason for me stopping the notion of suicide then would it still be the same in 2 years? 5? 10? 20? As of right now i am playing a waiting game were in if i lose my ...
Death would be by time and if i win it would be by me. Either way theyre the same outcome its how i got the outcome is what matters and the time needed to get to the outcome
more stupid internet quotes pain is not equal to other pain ask any one with mental illness which hurts more the torture they go through with the mental illness or someone else dying. this is just another quote by someone that hasn't been through shit and is talking out of there ass.
cause if you had been through such pain that you choose death over everything else
how could you bear passing those pains to others
i remember reading a story that the author started with "people who choose death over life dont deserve life at all" it was a story about a friend living with the pain that his friend passed to him
well, i believe people have rights to do whatever they want with their lives
but i hope everyone knows that
if your pain were that damaging, how could you do it after imagining what is going to do with others
sorry, it's difficult for me to make sense in this
i've been living with my mental illness since 13 (6 years now)
and it is actually the reason why i want my life to be gone AND the reason why i havent done that
cause i know what it can do to a person so i rather hold it in than letting my parents, family members, friends ever feel the same
not to mention the feeling one has when someone they know choose to leave
I wish you best
But maybe posts like this can give SOME ppl a different perspective on what they're thinking, and maybe that could motivate them to take a step in the right direction. That seems like a good thing to me.
And acknowledging that a certain kind of thinking a selfish isn't necessarily not understanding a person's feelings. It'd certainly not calling them bad people. It's just one part of a complex issue. Ppl that suffer from depression need to see that fact as much as the ppl that care about them.