The truth is I've been passively suicidal for the majority of my adult life. There are hours, days, and weeks I don't think about it. My passive suicidal feelings have never really made it beyond the abstract, and mostly focus on just everything being too much. Too many things to do, too many feelings, too many people who've left me, too many people pretending to care, too many expectation from the people who do care, too much hurt, too much uncertainty, just too much. The too much that fills all of me to the point where I don't know what to do with myself, and my entire existence hurts me. There is never a plan, and there probably never will be. The feeling usually lessons, but the feeling never really goes away.
The one thing I've always told me myself is I will never kill myself over a person. No matter how bad another person makes me feel they will never be the reason for why I'd kill myself. Those feelings that are the product of a person's actions are something to work through and not a reason for me to stop existing. Oh, a person can hurt you beyond belief, but for me there has to be more of a reason. Those feelings that result from a person's actions are the product of a changing dynamic because in order for a person to hurt me bad enough to want to end my life they have to hold importance.
The hardest part is accepting that you don't mean as much to them as they do to you because they'd show it. They'd make you a priority regardless of the situation, but because they don't put the same type of care into your relationship, whatever it may be, you get hurt. Wanting something more from someone that they are unwilling to give will always hurt, and it means you need to shift priorities. To stop hurting, you have to start expecting less because you will just keep hurting yourself. That person isn't intentionally hurting you they just don't see you the way you see them.
The perspective shift isn't easy because change is never easy. But a person will never be the reason that my passive suicidal thoughts become active. No matter how much I hurt, that is not a level of control I will ever let one person take from me. It's the mantra I keep in my head when I've been deeply hurt by family, friends, and partners. I won't let your actions take my life from me because your actions are not enough for me to want to stop existing. One person is not too much, they are just one variable in my life that is too much.
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