I’ve struggled with impulsivity my whole life. I’ve dealt with mental illness my entire adult life. — Noah Te Stroete
Patience is difficult when one is under a lot of stress. I have found that removing the stressors helps a lot, and where that isn’t possible, meditation helps. However, sometimes people are in very high stress situations that they can see no easy way out of. That’s when they need to find the courage to ask for help. — Noah Te Stroete
I find that praying as a form of meditation, asking God (or the universe or your inner self if you prefer) for patience has been helpful to me. — Noah Te Stroete
Isn't self-destruction the very definition of suicide? — BrianW
Has the impulsivity ever resulted in bad decisions? — Wallows
I don’t go to therapy either, but I am medicated. — Noah Te Stroete
Yes. I’ve overdosed five times. — Noah Te Stroete
I know how I’m supposed to think and behave. I just find it extremely difficult in practice. — Noah Te Stroete
I'm just saying reasons don't change anything because the term suicide is not justifiable unlike killing someone where self-defence is ok. — BrianW
I’m not sure what “coming to terms with one’s diagnosis” entails, though. — Noah Te Stroete
Suicide can be justified in some way. — Wallows
Of course it may be argued that since everything is passing why not prepone the inevitable death. To that the answer would be that realizing the truth of impermanence and the foolishness of craving actually, paradoxically, produces contentment and not depression, making us happier than if we didn't know it.
I don't know of any other religion that is more rational than Buddhism. It's 2000 years old and still makes sense.
This is strange: To understand death makes life happier — TheMadFool
There's something comforting about wanting to become nothing. It has no qualities or properties that define it, apart from the lack of properties about it.
What are some thoughts about this property of nothingness that makes people want to become nothing? — Wallows
What does one do when one is born but doesn't want to do what is required of being alive? — schopenhauer1
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