Why I Tried To Kill Myself at Penn
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Why I Tried To Kill Myself at Penn
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#2> I tried to kill myself at Penn because I felt so utterly alone.
If I was the only person on Earth, I wouldn't kill myself. Life isn't about feeling happy all the time.
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#3I believe suicidal tendencies is simply when the weight of feelings from depression, anxiety, and psychosis outweigh results from coping mechanisms. I don't think it has as much to do with feelings of sadness or lack of happiness.
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#4> I tried to kill myself at Penn because I felt so utterly alone. If I was the only person on Earth, I wouldn't kill myself. Life isn't about feeling happy all the time.
Cool story.
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#5Sounds like she had a lot of awful friends who outright refused to be there for her.
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#6Penn’s response? – Sending some administrator to see me in the hospital (HUP). The first and only thing that she said was, “Are we going to make this an annual pattern?” because I had been hospitalized the year before. I said “No” and she gave me her business card.
My kids are going to college in a couple of years. How do I avoid sending them to places like this?
People expect (and should expect) to be treated better than this by their employers. But by their vendors?
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#7I believe suicidal tendencies is simply when the weight of feelings from depression, anxiety, and psychosis outweigh results from coping mechanisms. I don't think it has as much to do with feelings of sadness or lack of happiness.
Is happiness not a coping mechanism for anxiety?
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#8> I tried to kill myself at Penn because I felt so utterly alone. If I was the only person on Earth, I wouldn't kill myself. Life isn't about feeling happy all the time.
It's kind of condescending to say something like that though because we have no direct understanding of how other people feel. Most people do not kill themselves. It's possible that those which try simply feel worse than those that do.
If you would feel way worse most of the time, then maybe you would kill yourself. And if you would not, is that morally superior behavior and if yes, why?
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#9> I tried to kill myself at Penn because I felt so utterly alone. If I was the only person on Earth, I wouldn't kill myself. Life isn't about feeling happy all the time.
FWIW, I find being alone/lonely when surrounded by happy bustling people is much more crushing than being or feeling alone with no other people around.
In the latter case, you can kind of ignore it a little, in the former it's right in front of you, teasing you, but just out of reach.
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#10I believe suicidal tendencies is simply when the weight of feelings from depression, anxiety, and psychosis outweigh results from coping mechanisms. I don't think it has as much to do with feelings of sadness or lack of happiness.
Is happiness not a coping mechanism for anxiety?
I think happiness is a result of a coping mechanism. Aerobic exercise can be a coping mechanism, which increases happiness.