I honestly and genuinely love life and like the life I’m leading. So why do I have these persistent thoughts about suicide? Remember that unwanted intrusive thoughts get stuck precisely because you don’t want them or agree with them. In the same way that gentle people are offended by and fight with, and therefore end up accidentally getting stuck on, violent thoughts, people who value their lives also accidentally reinforce thoughts they don’t agree with. Believe it or not, the momentary idea of killing oneself crosses ordinary people’s minds at random moments. Here are examples: That knife
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