Help Why the brain out of nowhere gets extremely sad and hopeless even when nothing happens?

[Aknu132]

When I manage to find a little hope and try to improve my life, out of nowhere my brain just starts I don't know throwing a bunch of sadness chemicals at me, making me lose hope and feel that awful sensation of wanting to kill myself. Why does this happen? Does anyone have an explanation for why our brain does this?

 

[ImInPain]

I wonder the same thing. Thinking about it in the grand scheme of things, it seems like such an "un-advantageous" thing.

I heard anxiety and many mental disorders can be a result of our "primate brains" overreacting, but suicidality seems like such a negative and useless, actively detrimental trait to evolve and to keep around. I really have no clue why our brains do this.

Maybe we just have some messed up circuits in our brains that misfire.

Another thing I have heard is that with trauma, your relatively emotional side of the brain and relatively logical side can sometimes not communicate as well and you could have contradictory situations (like experiencing no sadness or even something joyful, but then your brain starts feeling like it needs to cry asap as if something awful had happened just then).

BTW I am no expert on anything, (not even very smart) so please note that. I really hope there is an explanation that would make it easier to cope with/accept.

 

[Aknu132]

I wonder the same thing. Thinking about it in the grand scheme of things, it seems like such an "un-advantageous" thing.

I heard anxiety and many mental disorders can be a result of our "primate brains" overreacting, but suicidality seems like such a negative and useless, actively detrimental trait to evolve and to keep around. I really have no clue why our brains do this.

Maybe we just have some messed up circuits in our brains that misfire.

Another thing I have heard is that with trauma, your relatively emotional side of the brain and relatively logical side can sometimes not communicate as well and you could have contradictory situations (like experiencing no sadness or even something joyful, but then your brain starts feeling like it needs to cry asap as if something awful had happened just then).

BTW I am no expert on anything, (not even very smart) so please note that. I really hope there is an explanation that would make it easier to cope with/accept.

It's so strange, and when that feeling of hopelessness comes, it's never enough to make you kill yourself. That feeling just leaves you without energy for anything and only feeling sadness and emptiness. We can't get better, but we also can't even kill ourselves. it's such a torturous loop.