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“ Snap out it' is abusive. It kicks people when they are down. It makes people in pain feel more hopeless, more powerless, more frustrated, more estranged from humanity. It says, 'I don't want to be bothered with your pain any longer.' For people not in great pain, Snap out of it may be helpful advice if they have trouble getting going in the morning. For the despairing, however, it has no positive and many negative consequences. None of the conditions associated with suicide can be snapped out of. ”

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The depressed and the suicidal are often lonely and inhibited. Discussions of inhibition in this context usually emphasize fear of rejection.

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Self-destructive behaviors do not exist because there is a force within us that tries to hasten our return to an inorganic state, they exist because they provide short-term relief from pain that threatens to become intolerable.

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If someone suffers enough pain and abuse, his volitional capacities will diminish to nothing.

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