Does the feeling of being trapped normally precede a suicide?

[Weebster]

If I wasn't trapped in my situation, then I would want to live. But it's humiliating and defeating to not be able to rescue yourself due to circumstances outside your control. Its even worse when people blame you without understanding the true hopelessness of your situation.

 

[CommitSudoku]

My mind is a prison, I feel trapped regardless of my external circumstances at this point. So I always feel trapped and there's no escape.

 

[VoidDesirer22]

If I wasn't trapped in my situation, then I would want to live. But it's humiliating and defeating to not be able to rescue yourself due to circumstances outside your control. Its even worse when people blame you without understanding the true hopelessness of your situation.

Of course. I'd wager that a feeling of being trapped covers 99.9% of ctbs. But it's just one abstract feeling that is arrived to from varying circumstance.

Trapped in body, trapped eocnomicaly, trapped inside a stupid brain, trapped in an abusive family ... And so on.

 

[FuneralCry]

We cannot know exactly what people are feeling before they ctb as we are not living their lives. However, I do believe that many people probably feel trapped, and they ctb as they are desperate to escape their situation. Suicide is very difficult as we are programmed to survive, and I believe that people are able to overcome the SI when the pain of living gets to be unbearable and they cannot take it anymore. This life is so cruel and unfair and we live in a world with unlimited potential for suffering. To me, it makes sense as to why so many people want to leave it.

 

[nopride86]

I can't speak for other people, but it is the driving factor for me.
I feel like at this point, regardless of the minute decisions I can make in day-to-day life, I'm ultimately left in a check-mate.
I feel like a rat in a box that has 3 options: glue trap, snap trap, or starvation. No cheese in sight.
And even if I was given cheese, my time in the box would just be lengthened.

 

[Dangersmith1]

Life is so difficult

 

[Al_stargate]

Absolutely! Trapped with no prospect of things getting better. It's absolute torture.

 

[Weebster]

Absolutely! Trapped with no prospect of things getting better. It's absolute torture.

It's sad that every choice I've made, even the good ones, have led me to my current situation. I've hit a brick wall and can't see any move forward.

 

[Al_stargate]

It's sad that every choice I've made, even the good ones, have led me to my current situation. I've hit a brick wall and can't see any move forward.

Same thing. I almost feel like I was led into my situation by some higher power or whatever.

 

[Weebster]

Same thing. I almost feel like I was led into my situation by some higher power or whatever.

In order that we kill ourselves because our time for the next game is upon us? :)

 

[Al_stargate]

In order that we kill ourselves because our time for the next game is upon us? :)

I don't think suicide is predetermined. But sometimes there is no viable alternative, so that might contradict itself. If one believes in destiny. I believe our lives are a combination of predetermined destiny and our choices as well. But it sucks that one can make ton of good choices and only one bad and it's all over.

 

[Weebster]

I don't think suicide is predetermined. But sometimes there is no viable alternative, so that might contradict itself. If one believes in destiny. I believe our lives are a combination of predetermined destiny and our choices as well. But it sucks that one can make ton of good choices and only one bad and it's all over.

I was joking. But yes it's bullshit that one wrong move in this Choose-your-own-adventure book leads to a page with no further options

 

[Al_stargate]

I was joking. But yes it's bullshit that one wrong move in this Choose-your-own-adventure book leads to a page with no further options

hehe, you're right

 

[mrelief82]

My mind is a prison, I feel trapped regardless of my external circumstances at this point. So I always feel trapped and there's no escape.

Same