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Something goes wrong in the brain that causes SUFFERING beyond endurance. It also shuts down the ability to hope, and it induces the feeling that the world would be better without you; however, the despair and self-loathing are caused by the same malfunction that removes the aversion to death.
“The world is better with you in it” sounds like “you need to keep suffering to keep my world turning.”
“Let’s address your brain’s problems” is what people need to hear.
Remember the people who jumped from the WTC to avoid burning to death. Those who suicide see themselves in the same place: I can suffer in a fire or end the suffering quickly by jumping.
It’s no mystery when you put it in those terms. No mystery at all.