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Mental Health Reasons to stay ALIVE

drscience

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I guess this thread is for making personal lists of why you should stay alive and not give in to suicidal idealization.

Sorry if my description sounds morbid...:\

I gotta think about mine for while...:)

I'll start with the people I'd hurt/upset:
Mom
Dad
My friends

I want to go to Europe someday

When I feel happy it feels good to be alive, so I guess i'll add experiencing hapiness

My new job is going great, and I might be going back to college! Another great set of reasons...

More later
 
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1) getting to see the world through the eyes of age (so different than through the eyes of youth!)

2) getting to see more and more of the planet. Living/working towards the goal of more traveling.

3) learning to love myself and knowing that it is a life-long process.

4) learning to enjoy the ride--from the ups and downs to the hairpin turns and switchbacks.

5) laughing, seeing the comedy

6) spending as much time as possible heaping love on those I love

P.S. Great idea for a thread!<3
 
1) Experiencing and embracing change

2) Traveling the world.

3) Looking back on my depression and realizing I learned to deal with it constructively.

4) Having a S.O that reciprocates the amount of love I am capable of giving.
 
1.) Because I want to learn more
2.) Because I want to see my dreams come true
3.) Because I want to see my loved ones' dreams come true
4.) Because my cat needs me
5.) Because I've come this far
6.) Because I want to see how much further I can go

I like this thread. :)
 
1) to see if i can prove myself wrong about myself
2) to experience love
3) to try new foods

im too depressed right now to be posting in this thread lol
 
"Because I'm awesome."

Say this while looking in the mirror.
 
1. to be able to try proper virtual sex machines - you know, the ones where it really looks and feels like there's a very sex woman in your room. :)
 
1.) Life is incredibly short compared to everything that happens before birth and after death. Surely I can make it through to the end.

2.) My friends and family do not deserve to suffer from my (selfish) decision to end my life. They are good people who love me very much.

3.) Things can always get better. Sometimes the only way to go is up. The good times are worth the bad.

4.) We all have a purpose. Whether it's learning/enlightenment, helping others, teaching or some unique talent, it's our duty to strive to reach our potential. That way, when we look back on life we can be proud of what we achieved.

5.) Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Everything is relative. Poor starving kids in Africa dance and smile while we first-worlders sit and mope. If you have food/clothing/shelter, you're doing pretty damn good. The human spirit can overcome anything, but you have to get out of your own head to see it sometimes.
 
Mysterie said:
1) to see if i can prove myself wrong about myself
2) to experience love
3) to try new foods

im too depressed right now to be posting in this thread lol
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Me too! I guess proving others wrong is a pretty strong motivator for me, but it's probably not a healthy one.
 
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Because having a job plus the antidepressants im taking is really improving my mental stability...if I keep at it i think good things will come! So Im going to stay alive for now lol :)
 
Family

Friends

Career

my Bf

To help people on BL who are suffering from long term comedowns and promote healthy living
 
^^+100000000000000000000000000000! Such a big part of me died with my son.

But here are some more reasons that I have been thinking of:

To gain the very surprising gifts of age. I won't romanticize it--it sucks on many levels--but I have to say that the ease of existence in one's own body and mind that comes with time is truly worth experiencing.

I now have friendships that have been going on for over thirty years. These people know me and I know them on a level that just could not happen in a few years. I am friends with my children's friends as adults--who ever knew that would happen?!

I have seen the world swing this way and that way and back this way more than once and in so many ways.

I have gotten to plant trees from seeds and actually sit under them for shade.

I have hundreds of my students blossom into their independent lives.

I have experienced death so many times--the death of my grandparents, my aunts and uncles, good friends, students, my father and my son--that death is as real a place as life in my mind. I have learned through losing them to have gratitude for every breath I take, every day that I get in this existence.

As a young person I frequently and earnestly thought that I wanted to die. I am so grateful that I did not.
 
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