I am reminded that it is typically not evolutionarily adaptive to be suicidal when things get bad. It’s still worth it to keep striving, to keep putting in the work to try to find resources, mate, and rear offspring. Betting on it when things look lost, is much more “worth it” to the evolutionary forces, than for you to kill yourself and avoid the suffering.
I think that it’s a common misconception to think about suicide as caused by “things are bad, all is lost”. The good old “banker finding out he lost all money and instantly jumping out of the window” meme,
Most suicides happen because of mental illness, where external circimstances do not matter at all.
This is also a reason for an emphases on convincing people to seek help. Suicidal ideation is treatable in many cases, but people don’t talk about it and don’t seek help because they are so focused on internal pain.
(It would be good to add content waring for this post as well)
I think that it’s a common misconception to think about suicide as caused by “things are bad, all is lost”. The good old “banker finding out he lost all money and instantly jumping out of the window” meme,
Most suicides happen because of mental illness, where external circimstances do not matter at all.
This is also a reason for an emphases on convincing people to seek help. Suicidal ideation is treatable in many cases, but people don’t talk about it and don’t seek help because they are so focused on internal pain.
(It would be good to add content waring for this post as well)
Added the content warning; thx.