Discussion If you had everything you ever wanted, would you still be suicidal?

[Jorms_McGander]

I doubt I'd have time to be suicidal with all the work I'd have to do in hunting, gathering and ancestral agriculture

Everything I've ever wanted is very little on a material level and very much on a societal level.

 

[11April]

If the most important person in my life were next to me, then I would continue to live and fight, despite everything else. In this case, I would not think about suicide.

 

[bookgirl]

I'm chronically suicidal

 

[PINKIESISU]

This thread is more of a discussion so everyone can vent a little about what makes them suicidal, and if that problem was solved, if they still would be suicidal. I will read everyone's answers.

If you had the chance to make your dreams come true, if you could be rich, if you could be someone important, have the job you ever wanted, the cars you ever wanted, the person you ever wanted and everything you can even think of-


Would you still be suicidal?

Of course not because I wouldn't be in the fucking God damn human form

 

[AnxietyHangover]

If I had a loving partner I wouldn't have been this depressed mess that I am today. So yeah, wouldn't have been suicidal in the first place. When I was with someone my depression was so easy to manage and I had no suicidal ideation...

 

[Forever Sleep]

It's hard to say. Sometimes, I've gotten things I really wanted and worked really hard towards and they ultimately didn't make me much happier. Just a bit less sad and/or frustrated. I'm not sure we really properly appreciate good things in life without bad things hapening too. I think it's the contrast that makes us appreciate things the most.

In theory, currently, I have what I always wanted at one time. For at least the short-term, I have creative work to keep me busy that I can do at home by myself. It's not perfect. It's not a stable job long-term. For how slowly I work, it isn't well enough paid and I work just about every day. That's the thing really- life usually requires compromises.

You rarely get everything you want and that in itself can become a problem if you do eg. People who come in to money can't always tell who their real friends are anymore. People that get everything easily maybe have no challenges to motivate them.

I almost feel like I'd have to be a different person to be happy now and I don't fancy that either. I don't like change much. I'm probably too attached to my melancholy, pessimistic self.

 

[Yuina]

Yes, I would. My depression is chronic and genetic, which is what led to this in the first place. I already have so many things I could ask for. A loving family, stable housing, freedom, but I have yet to be "fixed." Maybe if I had a partner, which is one of my more prominent wishes, but I don't think anyone would want to put up with me. Or, a decent flow of cash, but I feel like it would only worsen my spending addiction, which is already my coping mechanism.