Some people can face life better

[Defatigatis]

It's a fact that some people deal with life's problems better than others. For some, financial difficulties and various other accumulated problems can be the end of the world and make them want them end this existence; for others, it may just be the everyday problems of life emerging; and for others, they don't even care about these problems and just continue existing.
What exactly differentiates us from the people who can look at these difficulties of being alive and still keep fighting? I think the main factor is that they have been trained not to consider suicide in any way, and that their only option is to continue existing despite everything. And with that, their brains are calibrated to only live at any cost. We here, however, consider death a possibility like any other, we are free; however, freedom also comes at a price: when a hidden path is unearthed, it can no longer be concealed, and it becomes a path like any other. Even if some here consider continuing to live, this path will inevitably resonate in their subconscious.
And with that, it begins to sound like a solution to all our problems... We may not be sure what comes next, but we are certain that we will die, and that is enough to provide some relief on this path. Death is certain, warm, calm, the end... perhaps even the beginning of something else we don't know, or just nothing at all.

 

[Roseate]

You know I think it has a lot to do with environment and how we are raised or the things we were surrounded by. Like for me, I was raised with the constant worry and anxiety so I cope as such, and for example two kids from the same environment might react differently based off the same experience so maybe it has more to do with the chemicals in our brains and how they are, and every situation we go through and how we react. Like it builds into how we deal with things, does that make sense?

 

[Forever Sleep]

I tend to think people who cope better may also have more positive things/ more enjoyment of those things or more hope for positive things than people in our position. I imagine- even if a person encounters problems, if they still have better things or hopes in their life- it maybe balances it out more.

The fairly common denominator I tend to see here is very little joy in life. So- less reason to stay. If we felt like life would be difficult but, ultimately worth it- we might feel more inspired. As it is, I think many people here hold a more pessimistic/ cynical view- that life is hard and it could quite well not be worth fighting for regardless. Risk and reward is one thing. Risk with no reward is another.

 

[jengablocks]

some brains just don't process happy chemicals as much or process the fight-or-flight anxiety & pain chemicals way too much, and that principle is what lots of mental health treatment starts with--both medicinally, to try and readjust that neurological processing, and therapeutically, to try and rewire the thought processes that have formed due to living with that brain up to this point.

and even aside from lack of access to it, lots of people fall through the cracks of that treatment, since it is far from perfect. autism, a neurodevelopmental disorder, is just way too ingrained in how someone's brain neurology forms and develops in the first place for there to be a "cure," for example. stuff like adhd and ocd as well, though those are a bit more conventionally treatable.

and then, by extension to all of the aforementioned, you add on an infinitely wide variation of actual, material life circumstances and experiences, and how they differ in the joy-to-hardship ratio. add on trauma, co-occurring mental illness, whatever, and it gets too complicated.

it's definitely unequal, some people might just fall on the extreme ends of that inequality

 

[dearreader]

From a sociological perspective, there are external factors that make suicide more probable across the board, regardless of your temperament (see: Durkheim's studies). It's really not entirely the fault of the individual, or their ability to cope, and I find that really interesting because suicide is always seen as a distinctly individual act. That's why there's the notes, incessantly investigating for the specific moment that everything went wrong, and so forth... Really, with the current state of things, I wouldn't be surprised if the rates skyrocketed now. This world bums most people--all people--out in a way that they've numbed themselves to, or simply cannot articulate.

But what primes people to cope with that better than others? I honestly don't know. My sister and I were both raised in the same (well-above average) conditions, and she's doing perfectly fine in the corporate world (or whatever the hell she does) while I go down a new existential rabbit hole every week. I think neurodivergence is a large factor (genetic crap in general), and material living conditions, but I also think that some people are just too curious for their own good. There are certain realizations and hard truths you can never unlearn, and the pure escapist bliss of ideating suicide is definitely one of them.

Not sure how I ended up on sociology. I sound like a nerd. Sorry