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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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First, I apologize if this is too heavy of a question, so I will delete upon request. However, a thought came to me recently...

Isn't it normal for people to occasionally have suicidal thoughts and/or thoughts of self harm?

I mean, think of it this way ...every human being gets sad now and then, right? So it seems like this would be a normal effect from it. We pathologize things like this, but I'm wondering if it's just common to the human experience.

I know it sounds like an incredibly stupid question, but that's why I'm posting it here.

Before you get concerned, no I am not going to harm myself. I have a lot of really good days too and have recently seen a psychiatrist to ask some questions. I'm in a very good mood right now. So all is good here. Just had this one question. Because I realized that I've always been kind of that way when I'm in a really bad mood is all!

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Its normal enough to just be fed up with everything and want it all to stop. It means you're in distress and you need to find a way to bring everything back into within coping range. SI is probably a step quite beyond that and basically at the end of one's rope after awhile that there's literally no hope and such suffering that the only logical choice seems to be exiting.

Suicidal ideation is your mind telling you the current circumstances are not tenable and you don't feel that there is any other viable way to make things better and be out from a dead-end pit of suffering that exceeds your coping abillities and resources.

Are there any conditions or challenges that are dominant in your life that you are distressed by and see no way out of, that overshadow any hope of change and easing up?

One can be extremely stressed and challenged by condition(s) in life that they see an end date to and where they will be better of and have time to recharge before they need to deal with the next challenges and be able to cope with that because there is hope and the motivation/experience that tells them they will get the rewards if they persevere thru the darkness and bumpy stuff

If there's

no hope
no rest/recovery
no motion/possibillity for change
no reward

And thats just your life, its not really sustainable and one would likely turn to such thoughts or impulses like you're describing.

The thing is, if suicide is an option in one's mind, thats such an extreme outcome and thing to try to plan and execute on that there's basically always a better option that you can find but you need to ask for help and radically open your mind to other situations you might be able to transtiion yourself into that might suck but is allows you to start fresh(er) and have somethint workable as a foundation to try again and at least not be in the situation that is shutting you down and making you imagine having to resort to S