Venting My mind is a result of a living physical body, but why does my body not die when my mind feels like it is done?

[KillingPain267]

In my mind I am ready and longing for death, yet my body continues functioning like nothing has happened.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

In my mind I am ready and longing for death, yet my body continues functioning like nothing has happened.

That's part of the horror

 

[saii]

It's really sad, our bodies have been made to survive, no matter how shattered your mind is. I wish there was just a button you could press and end it all.

 

[Mirrory Me]

Heart is the first organ that forms in human body.

 

[saii]

I am not sure if it's real but I've read somewhere that things such as feelings of being suicidal can be transmitted through generations with dna, please correct me if it's not real but if it is, life is a twisted joke. Sometimes I feel like my own body is my prison, if it just gave up after I tried to od…

 

[Forever Sleep]

I think we have different parts of the brain. Some much older and more primitive than others. Instinctual things like breathing and a reflex action to avoid danger come from this part. SI exists in this part presumably and I suppose it's that part we have to overcome in order to die. So- it's not every part of our brains that want to die I guess. Just the thinking, feeling bit of it.

 

[bleeding_heart_show]

Does the body rule the mind

Or does the mind rule the body?

I dunno.

 

[dust-in-the-wind]

Read up on psychogenic death. Where people have been able to will themselves to die. I keep trying...

The medical mystery of those who "think" themselves to death

Those with dysexistential syndrome can literally will themselves to die. Medicine is just starting to understand

www.salon.com

 

[lawlietsph]

Very good question. I think the mental torture makes your body sick eventually, but it's such a slow process and I don't understand why... It's not enough to kill you instantly, I wish it was the case.
I think about this often.
I want to die, it hurts to be aware.

 

[KillingPain267]

I think we have different parts of the brain. Some much older and more primitive than others. Instinctual things like breathing and a reflex action to avoid danger come from this part. SI exists in this part presumably and I suppose it's that part we have to overcome in order to die. So- it's not every part of our brains that want to die I guess. Just the thinking, feeling bit of it.

Yeah, sometimes I wish just at least my prefrontal cortex or higher thinking would cease to function. Then my family and everyone can keep me alive as long as they desire while I'm just a brainless vegetable.

Read up on psychogenic death. Where people have been able to will themselves to die. I keep trying...

The medical mystery of those who "think" themselves to death

Those with dysexistential syndrome can literally will themselves to die. Medicine is just starting to understand

www.salon.com

Haha, I'm reading it right now while you replied

 

[ijustwishtodie]

That's what makes it all immensely scary. I hate at how hard it is to die and I can't understand those who say that it is easy to die

 

[saii]

That's what makes it all immensely scary. I hate at how hard it is to die and I can't understand those who say that it is easy to die

I hate that sentiment, there is nothing easy about it.

 

[Defenestration]

In my mind I am ready and longing for death, yet my body continues functioning like nothing has happened.

The same thing
Totally die
JUst want physically die

 

[divinemistress36]

I am not sure if it's real but I've read somewhere that things such as feelings of being suicidal can be transmitted through generations with dna, please correct me if it's not real but if it is, life is a twisted joke. Sometimes I feel like my own body is my prison, if it just gave up after I tried to od…

Yes, mental illness is often genetic. Thanks fam

 

[J&L383]

Does the body rule the mind

Or does the mind rule the body?

I dunno.

They are kind of independent. Body on autopilot in terms of maintenance, but deemed to do the mind's bidding for only authorized functions (ambulation, thought), mind can't shutdown the machine at will without a definitive act.

 

[Valhala]

Because what the mind feels may have nothing to do with the actual health condition of the physical body.

 

[KillingPain267]

Because what the mind feels may have nothing to do with the actual health condition of the physical body.

It's odd since the mind is a product of the brain (which is part of the physical body too).

 

[CantDoIt]

I would like to know how to just die from not wanting to live, as some people apparently do. I have no clue how these people do it though, it seems to be in situations like being in a concentration camp or crazy things like being a slave or what have you. I would imagine people with chronic depression don't have the associated physical pressure that does along with that .

 

[Valhala]

It's odd since the mind is a product of the brain (which is part of the physical body too).

It is also strange that with our consciousness we are not able to control the work of some vital organs at our own discretion, but they function independently of our consciousness and will. In this sense, the mind does not have the possibility of consciously "extinguishing" life and the physical body. Furthermore, there are some recent researches about the mind and its functioning where, based on some knowledge of quantum physics and in accordance with the reference scientific research carried out, in some sense and under certain conditions it is dislocated outside the body. Recently someone posted a scientific article on this forum with numerous scientific references on the problem.