One reason you keep going?

[caroline_13]

Still...cats. Although there may be short "good" times between the bad, I've learned--after 50 years--that it really does not get better. Not for everyone.

If you're not happy single, you won't be happy married.

Happiness comes from cats, not relationships.

 

[whiteraven]

If you're not happy single, you won't be happy married.

Happiness comes from cats, not relationships.

I didn’t say anything about marriage? Sorry, not sure what you mean.

 

[Teasel]

Grew up with a Mum who tried to kill herself mutliple times. The last time she tried it was me who found her. We got her to the hospital but the lithium overdose already did her plenty of harm.

It did kill her in the end, she got lewy body dementia, they said something about it being brought on by the toxicity of lithium... she died 2 years later, in a home, terrified, not knowing any of us.

Puts me off trying suicide.

 

[caroline_13]

I didn’t say anything about marriage? Sorry, not sure what you mean.

It's just a meme that was going on around instagram.

Cats are... happiness. That is all.

 

[Charbella]

Cats are... happiness. That is all.

I’d just like to say my pups are also happiness! Especially the one who brings me a ball and demands I play with her when all I want to do is end it.

 

[Starfire]

On the bad days, the worst days, the impossible days, the days you're hoping for a hail mary even though you believe in nothing, the days you can't recognize who you've become?

What is one reason you keep going?

Found a shirt that says: what if it works out?
So I hang around somethings to prove that wrong or somethings just to see.

 

[Honestly]

Probably in this order:
1. Sometimes I can’t think why, but I just try to get to sleep (taking a sleeping pill usually in these cases) because really almost always I wake up and I’m relieved that I didn’t kill myself — because the immediate trigger has passed, and the SI has gone.
2. Because I knew if I killed myself they’d use ur as evidence that I was a (in their words) a “mentally ill liar” who therefore (by their logic) lied about the abuse.
3. Knowing it would ruin my younger sister’s life, and that of my parents, and that they would never recover.

This order doesn’t probably reflect very well on me. But the SI that comes on after a bad trigger is overpowering. And I can’t see the logical arguments easily.

 

[RNrecovery]

Knowing how hard it’s been for my after having parents die by suicide. Not wanting to do that to other people in my life.

 

[JEKBreatheandBelieve]

Remembering that I have goals I want to accomplish still, not wanting to have my children go through life without me, fear of the unknown- the idea of what's to say death is better

 

[Bamma]

Fear of dying, and of the pain it will cause others.