Instinct tells you to live, however to preserve your brain your mind will try to invent ways to prevent suffering. Those are two aspects of what you would call "Self-preservation".
If your brain things that prolonged suffering can only be ended with death, that preservation will override the will to live. So instinct tells you "Not to die" while "Preserving sanity and well being" is a second drive which can easily conflict with that.
Is it normal that I'm suicidal, but I'm afraid to die?
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Instinct tells you to live, however to preserve your brain your mind will try to invent ways to prevent suffering. Those are two aspects of what you would call "Self-preservation".
If your brain things that prolonged suffering can only be ended with death, that preservation will override the will to live. So instinct tells you "Not to die" while "Preserving sanity and well being" is a second drive which can easily conflict with that.
Understand?