I have thought about this recently and I wanted to know what you think about this. It seems a common discussion topic here, on how to overcome SI and most of the time people answer with benzos or alcohol as a solution, but I think that's the wrong approach to it, because if you have SI telling you to stay alive, I think there is at least something in you that tells you that life might be worth it regardless. This is my personal theory, but I think a common thing in some very suicidal people, is that they take physically dangerous risks in every day behavior (judging from what psychiatrists ask in their screenings and what the vast majority of anti-suicide resources online say, but also from personal experience, I've met those people irl), and perhaps you could argue that those people lack the SI or at least it's not the reason why they haven't ctb'd yet. On the other hand you have people, who are wanting to ctb as well, but have great difficulties overcoming their SI. I personally think, that's because those people deep down have some hope left. Those suicidal-big-risk-taking-people prove that what forum members here refer to as SI, probably isn't as much of a survival instinct, than some hope for betterment left they have.
Therefor I think, that trying to artificially fight this inner feeling with drugs and alcohol, is in some cases very harmful.
Also, an important thing I want to mention, is that I think there is a difference between SI as meant in most cases with "this feeling that you have before you do it" and the very different mind-body reaction you have when you already swallowed the poison, jumped through the noose or bled almost completely out, because the former is the SI I'm referring to in this post, which I don't think you can equate to the latter, which is just a natural reaction all of our lizard brains have to the realization, that we are dying.
Fighting the "survival instinct", in the sense of getting yourself wasted or drugged up enough to overcome this feeling (which I think is in some persons a potential form of hope for the future), is probably harmful, as it might drown any chance of bettering. In some suicidal people, this feeling disappears naturally, as they realize their future is bleak and hopeless (said suicidal-big-risk-taking-people), but I think if you have this feeling and it doesn't go away, than you should act upon it and not try to fight with artificial means it just to do your suicidal ideation justice.
Of course not everything applies to everyone and exceptions prove the rule, but that's what I think in broad terms. Now I've repeated myself a lot, I apologize.
What do you think?
Therefor I think, that trying to artificially fight this inner feeling with drugs and alcohol, is in some cases very harmful.
Also, an important thing I want to mention, is that I think there is a difference between SI as meant in most cases with "this feeling that you have before you do it" and the very different mind-body reaction you have when you already swallowed the poison, jumped through the noose or bled almost completely out, because the former is the SI I'm referring to in this post, which I don't think you can equate to the latter, which is just a natural reaction all of our lizard brains have to the realization, that we are dying.
Fighting the "survival instinct", in the sense of getting yourself wasted or drugged up enough to overcome this feeling (which I think is in some persons a potential form of hope for the future), is probably harmful, as it might drown any chance of bettering. In some suicidal people, this feeling disappears naturally, as they realize their future is bleak and hopeless (said suicidal-big-risk-taking-people), but I think if you have this feeling and it doesn't go away, than you should act upon it and not try to fight with artificial means it just to do your suicidal ideation justice.
Of course not everything applies to everyone and exceptions prove the rule, but that's what I think in broad terms. Now I've repeated myself a lot, I apologize.
What do you think?
