a fools guide to not wanting to die anymore
by me, a fool who doesnt wanna die anymore
never make a suicide joke again. yes this includes “i wanna die” as a figure of speech. swear off of it. actually make an effort to change how you think about things.
find something to compliment someone for at least 4 times a day. notice the little things about the world that make you happy, and use that to make other people happy.
talk to people. initiate conversation as often as you possibly can. keep your mind busy and you wont have to worry anymore
picture the bad intrusive thoughts in youe head as an edgy 13 year old and tell them to go be emo somewhere else
if someone makes you feel bad most of the time, stop talking to them. making yourself hang out with people who drain you is self harm. stop it.
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That’s some pretty good advice. I don’t know what’s left of my humor after ‘guess I’ll just die’ jokes but it’s worth a shot.
Personally i went from “guess I’ll die” jokes to “IF I HAVE TO BE HERE FOR 5 MORE MINUTES I PROMISE YOU I WILL BUY JUST, AN ARRAY OF CLOTHES.” and other wild hyperbolic stuff. Just replace the death part with something ridiculous and off topic. Its very entertaining
This also works with calling myself things like stupid, worthless, trash, etc. Even if you do this jokingly to yourself, your brain still believes it, and keeps up the cycle. Seriously, I found that when I stopped saying these things about myself, even jokingly, it made a massive difference.
Here’s a tip I picked up from a friend that’s helped me a lot — replace self deprecating jokes with ironically self aggrandizing jokes
Like every time I trip and fall, instead of saying “l’m just a disaster human” I say “I’m the epitome of grace and beauty”
Or like, when I draw a picture I’m not 100% happy with, instead of saying “my art is trash” I say something like “you know I think it’s time we replaced the Mona Lisa”
When you do that you get to make a joke, but you’re ALSO getting practice building yourself up, y’know?
And eventually it becomes a reflex and you get so used to it that you can say nice stuff about yourself even when you AREN’T joking
[Image: The “guess I’ll die” meme, a graying man in ill-fitted turtleneck shrugging helplessly, with the text, “Guess I’ll live a healthier, happier life then.”]
This is all incredible advice. Will it magically make you not suicidal or depressed? Nah, but these changes will build into a much more robust defense against them and could reduce them significantly.
Similar to what @808lien is saying, something I learned when my intrusive thoughts started was that my repeated “I wanna die” and “everything is terrible” jokes became the intrusive thoughts, just because they were the easily available to my grabby-hands brain after so much repetition.
Make your brain struggle to come up with something to throw at you.
❤️, Editor Diane
I truly have to thank tumblr for the idea of turning my intrusive thoughts into the voice of someone I can confidently tell to piss off. For me it was an old coworker and I literally made a sticky note for myself that says “Shut up Darlene! No one cares what you think!”
