How does someone lose the will to live? isnt it hard wired into our brains?
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Posted by oooooooooh Oct 16th, 2012 at 10:08AM
not to live like this
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Posted by LonghairedRedneck Oct 16th, 2012 at 9:42AM
I have to agree with Morrigan. Speaking from experience, I've found that there's a will to live and then there's a survival/self-preservation instinct. When you spend the better part of 5 years fighting with yourself you learn a few things; like the fact that there's no off switch for depression and, aside from a few exceptions, nobody really gives a ****. You go over the edge and start having thoughts like;"things really would be so much simpler if I was dead". That's losing the will to live. Still, while I say I would rather drown myself in a well than relive some of the things I have been through before, there's still something holding me here. I like to think it's mostly curiosity of what's to come if I stick around, and partly fear of knowing that's it, that's all, goodnight.
So while I believe that some things; like eating, self-preservation, and propagation are "hard-wired" to our brains, in extreme circumstances we can find ways to circumvent or short circut our instincts. Everybody suffers differently, and when we find out just how deep our particular rabbit-hole goes, there lies the potential for another Amanda Todd or Daryn Richardson, or Bud Dwyer. Not to diminish the tragedy to their families, I certainly have no measure of what they're feeling, but my point is that you don't know what the next person you see is thinking, feeling or going through because sometimes even they don't know themselves.
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Posted by oldfarmguy Oct 16th, 2012 at 8:31AM
Sometimes they have a short circuit. The insulation of enjoyment wears thin and they need someone to help them find a way to rebuild it.
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Posted by Morrigan23 Oct 16th, 2012 at 8:21AM
I think survival instincst are hard wired into our brains, and our will to live is a bit different, it has to do with emotions and how fulfilled people are in life.
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