Blame yourself or others?

  • Myself

    Votes: 55 60.4%
  • People

    Votes: 15 16.5%
  • Society

    Votes: 14 15.4%
  • Deity/Force of nature

    Votes: 7 7.7%

  • Total voters
    91
Divine Trinity

Divine Trinity

Pugna Vigil
Mar 20, 2019
310
Do you blame yourself or others for the events that's lead to desiring CTB? Why? Bonus for distinguishing your actions from other's in your life.

I'd have to say in most cases I know of it's not the person's fault for what happened in their life.
 
Davy

Davy

Have a great day!
Mar 24, 2019
144
I liked to blame myself for everything because I thought it was the good thing to do and felt like I wasn't entitled to anything in life, but I realised that it can turn to self-loathing.
 
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adam

Member
Mar 21, 2019
86
I liked to blame myself for everything because I thought it was the good thing to do and felt like I wasn't entitled to anything in life, but I realised that it can turn to self-loathing.
I think you shouldn't blame others if you're personally to blame - it's kind of egoistic.
 
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Whatshername

Whatshername

That Ghost Lady on the Hill
Dec 14, 2018
1,352
In my case it's a combination of the available answers in your poll. I can blame nature/deity/destiny for the most part. I can blame myself for being weak, giving up and exacerbating existing issues. I can blame society and its general stance dealing with mental health problems. Most of the reasons of me being where I am currently have been out of my control, but I can't avoid admitting my own responsibility either.
 
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Davy

Davy

Have a great day!
Mar 24, 2019
144
I think you shouldn't blame others if you're personally to blame - it's kind of egoistic.
I definitely agree with that. Taking responsibility for your own behaviour is important and blaming somebody (yourself or others) has never solved a single problem in life.
Though some things are out of your control and life is imperfect, it's nice to forgive yourself sometimes. I just don't want people to blame themselves for being mentally ill or thinking that if something bad happened to them it must mean that they deserved it.
 
Divine Trinity

Divine Trinity

Pugna Vigil
Mar 20, 2019
310
I think you shouldn't blame others if you're personally to blame - it's kind of egoistic.
We have to ask ourselves what "drives" human behavior. I'd say environment and physiology, especially in the formative years.
 
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Worthless_nobody

Enlightened
Feb 14, 2019
1,384
I blame myself for the biggest mistake that started the ruin of my life. I blame others for the abuse, rape and trauma. I blame nature for the mental/physical illness.
 
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Letmego. Please

Letmego. Please

Wizard
Nov 18, 2018
619
I blame nothing, what is or would be the point? It changes nothing & just becomes another toxic element to peoples lives that then drives them further down the plug hole.

Stop feeling like you need to blame yourself or others, the world is not black and white, so don't make your reactions to situations only black or white.

I could blame myself for my crippling myself, thus changing the course of my life, but seriously where would that get me, it's done, i cannot change the actions of one crazy day & blame just becomes an excuse to either beat yourself up further or blame something else that again changes nothing. So my question, what is the point?
 
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Midnight

Midnight

Beyond solace
Jun 30, 2018
624
I blame nothing/no one. It's all just a game of chance. You either get lucky or you don't.
 
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Didymus

Didymus

Clutching at invisible straws
Dec 11, 2018
348
I blame no one but myself. Bad decisions in education, career, business and most of all not taking care of my personal health.
 
Dead beat dad

Dead beat dad

Enlightened
Mar 5, 2019
1,030
Do you blame yourself or others for the events that's lead to desiring CTB? Why? Bonus for distinguishing your actions from other's in your life.

I'd have to say in most cases I know of it's not the person's fault for what happened in their life.
The void is that which stands right I'm the middle of 'this' and 'that.'
It is all inclusive, having no opposite, there is nothing which it excludes or opposes.
It is living void because all life comes from it, and those that realise the void will be filled with life, and power, and love of all things
DBD
 
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Addy92

Student
Mar 24, 2019
152
I did blame others at first. I tried hard and had it all thrown back at me. But now I realise I've destroyed my life through my own traits and its no fault of their own. I really hope if I CTB then those people will read this. Someday.
 
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Empty Smile

Empty Smile

The final Bell has rung. Goodbye to all.
Jul 13, 2018
1,785
I blame society. While those of us who suffer from depression, or other issues with our lives beyond our control, society tends to look down at you as if you're a freak of nature.

You can't help but to blame others.

When you reach out for help, do you get it?

When you ask for help, do you get it?

When you look for help, do you get it?

No is my answer for all three. Because as soon as you mention anything about suicide, your ass gets planted in a mental health facility, regardless of whether you attempted suicide, or only THOUGHT about it.

Trust me, society does not give a googly fuck about us. We are the shit stains of society, the attention seekers so to speak.

Fuck society. If I have to continue to live, I will go into the woods and stay put, away from people.
 
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Roberto

Wizard
Jan 19, 2019
684
It's the society. It's me, that I can't adapt myself. The majority of people overcomes the problems.
 
ZixivaldYrxes

ZixivaldYrxes

Archduke Demoness Villaintropic
Apr 3, 2019
120
Almost completely nature.
Dropped in a b***hole of insanity, random stuff happens, expected to know what to do with all of it. -_-
I think most of the bad things that happen are a result of a struggle against (or with?) nature anyhow. Nature forces necessity, necessity forces compromise, compromise can often mean something bad. A lot of times choices are between making someone else suffer, or suffering yourself. Either way, someone suffers, and I don't think that either is "good". The world is full of organisms who don't even know each other who are forced to kill and injure each other just to survive. It isn't even ideological, it's just some arbitrary way that things work that happens to be as close to evil as I can think of. And a lot of what we do as humans is an attempt to get as far away from that dynamic as possible, but society is modeled on it, it pervades everything. We keep the machinery hidden so that we can pretend like it's not there, but it is. Industrialized farming is one nasty compromise that we've made with nature, basically creating hell on earth for however many creatures, because if we didn't, our lives would be (not proportionally, imo) more difficult.
Society is an offshoot of nature and human behavior, human behavior is an offshoot of nature and society. It all comes back down to nature. Forgiving people becomes way easier once you can figure out how to trace what they're doing back to nature, too.
I do blame myself, and others, and society, too, but as extensions of nature. When it comes down to it, we're all fucking lost in this miasma, being forced to do and be things by nature, and everything was at least at one point a complete accident. That's how I feel at least idk. I know there are a lot of other perspectives out there, and some might be able to invalidate mine.
 
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bigj75

bigj75

“From Knowledge springs power."
Sep 1, 2018
2,540
there are so many variables to how you ended up that its pretty much all a dice roll. Can't really blame yourself or anyone else. But we could all do better regardless or at least try.
 
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Efem

Member
Feb 10, 2019
22
I grew up in an abusive household with a physically/emotionally abusive father, and I think he's partially responsible for the shitty person I am today. However, I have nobody to blame but myself for the poor choices I've made as an adult.
 
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Funkbunny

Student
Nov 18, 2018
116
I don't blame others, I don't blame myself. I'm not a bad person. I'm not 'mentally ill'. I'm tired. Very tired and I don't want to be here. The shit in my life makes me who I am, and I'm proud to have made it through such crap.
 
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Broken

Paragon
Dec 7, 2018
930
Wow big percentage for blame yourself. I blame myself for at least 75% of the reason I want to ctb.
 
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Memento Mori

Memento Mori

shambling garbage
Jan 24, 2019
573
why no multiple choice? guess then its only me
 
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Broken

Paragon
Dec 7, 2018
930
why no multiple choice? guess then its only me
I'd mainly blame myself. Partly others and also the way society makes you think your not where you should be in life.
 
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Memento Mori

Memento Mori

shambling garbage
Jan 24, 2019
573
I'd mainly blame myself. Partly others and also the way society makes you think your not where you should be in life.

yeah that society point is #2, i dont have to ctb but theyre not making it eaiser for me either
 
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HappyEnding

HappyEnding

Member
Mar 23, 2019
85
A mix of both. My problems stemmed from years of being a victim of bullying but it was up to me to get help and I didn't. This is partially my fault and I'm not running from the truth.
 
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bluesleep

Member
Apr 1, 2019
43
I blame others for their mistakes, and myself for mine. People have hurt me, and I've hurt people and that causes me a lot of guilt. I know a huge part of my suffering is my fault. Sure, my father is at fault for having children at a very old age knowing he would leave us when we were still young, and the friends that failed me are at fault for their mistakes too, but I accept I screwed up my own life too. If I eventually get the guts to CTB I know it'll be my choice.
 
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TAW122

Emissary of the right to die.
Aug 30, 2018
6,803
I'm blaming myself for most of what goes on because during my life, I have made some poor decisions that have cost me many opportunities and also partly resulted in the circumstances that I am in now. However, I'm only putting about 60% of the blame on myself because there is still a good amount of things outside of my control such as how others will react, how others behave, and unpredictable events. I'd place about 20% on both people and society. The way that society is sucks and people in general suck as they are inherently selfish and most just want to look good rather than make a difference.
 
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couragetodie

Student
Jan 2, 2019
154
I blame my parents for being awful but I blame myself for not just letting go of my past and living in the present. So hard to do this though.
 
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Maksimka Ai

Maksimka Ai

Broken
Apr 26, 2019
36
Absurd fucking theater! I live like a Truman SHOW movie! Who should I blame? Myself, that when I realized that something was going wrong, I did not commit suicide, thereby allowing them to continue to kill me slowly. Blaming them, because people are bored in their own lives, and they need this show, I don't believe anybody or anything, I'm ready to die, I'm tired, I've failed to live, now I want to die!
 
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deathenvoy

Experienced
Mar 29, 2019
215
First I blamed my family.
Than I blamed myself.
Now I dont' blame anyone - there is no point.
 
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Allpainnogain

Experienced
May 2, 2019
203
Myself 100%
 
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Weems

Weems

Experienced
May 5, 2019
204
"You're just coasting along," people always told me. "You need to put out more effort."

I should have listened. I was one of two National Merit Semifinalists at my high school. But wait, why didn't I take the smart kid classes with the other smart kids? Why did I always do the minimum?

Why did I study bullshit liberal arts majors in college--and still slack off so hard I couldn't come up with a senior thesis and graduate, preferring to have a mental breakdown instead?

Why did I quit the sport I loved and excelled at after two years of college? Didn't I know what a rare and fleeting opportunity this was?

Why did I watch so much porn and smoke so much weed?

Why did I work a menial job my whole 20s after the breakdown?

Why didn't I notice my mind getting even worse?

(I got into fringe political ideas better not discussed here for years before descending into religious fantasy and a full-on hobo-level schizo freakout back in the fall).

Old friends (and girls I dated) are now doctors, professors, lawyers, journalists, etc. I am a bus-riding menial laborer with roommates and no savings. And my fellow grunts despise me. There is no farther for me to fall.

Doors were open to me. People recognized potential in me. And I took a pass on all of it.
 
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