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Originally Posted by Inedible
On one hand, if it isn't your life to do with as you choose, whose life is it anyway? On the other hand, it really isn't just your life to do with as you choose because you are a part of other people's lives. People you never knew existed are used to seeing you on a regular basis and they would wonder where you went. This goes double for being online. The more you participate online, the more likely it is that thousands or tens of thousands of people are watching you. That doesn't even begin to address family and friends. Even people who don't like you - and we all have them - still count on seeing you on a regular basis. It is your life, but all those people think that you are a part of their life and they would feel your absence.
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I kind of disagree as this sort of thinking typically makes me feel worse if I get suicidal. I mean why should you stick around for people who don't like you and might even treat you wrong...because they might be dissapointed they have to go find someone else to bother? and becauses people you've never met on a forum might miss you? I suppose the reason it bothers me is it seems to indicate other peoples inconvieniance is more important than the pain you can't take anymore and it seems to be kind of a guilt trip...I find it more helpful to find other ways of managing the mental health issues and pain it causes rather than trying to think of how guilty I should feel about considering it as it just feeds the cycle of feeling like crap.