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Nov 05
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15 reviews
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psychology
• chvnx.com
From the page: "The so-called â€psychotically depressed†person who tries to kill herself doesnâ€t do so out of quote â€hopelessness†or any abstract conviction that lifeâ€s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fireâ€s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. Itâ€s not desiring the fall; itâ€s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling â€Donâ€t!†and â€Hang on!â€, can understand the jump. Not really. Youâ€d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling."