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I think neurons that produce the thought were just fired so frequently in the past in response to stresses that they just automatically fire now. I can dismiss, often, the thoughts as my brain following an annoying older pattern. Often now another neuron follows with a counter-thought, that suicide is not a reasonable option and then my brain goes off on another thought.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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