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Old Mar 16, 2017, 09:47 AM
leejosepho leejosepho is offline
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Originally Posted by splion View Post
Psychiatrically One loses the will to live when the ego judges the past, current and foreseeable future (which may or may not be accurate) as insufficient to meet the ego's standards. The answer lies in evaluating and changing the source of those feelings...
I believe that is accurate, and that could be quite a discussion! Whenever I presume -- whenever my ego so arrogantly presumes -- to try to set any kind of standard (with accompanying expectations, of course) either for myself or for anyone else, I end up launching myself right out of reality and on into frustrated instincts leading to depression and despair.
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