> how do you quit “the entire world”? The short answer: you can’t, but you can change which parts of the world you actively engage with. As someone on a long

> how do you quit “the entire world”? The short answer: you can’t, but you can change which parts of the world you actively engage with. As someone on a long journey that seems highly relevant to this thread, getting help via therapy is one of the most important things I’ve done for myself. A job that has sufficient problems and insane levels of stress can make the rest of the world look…different. Quitting my job gave me the mental capacity to find and see aspects of the world around me that are not worth quitting. It has given me the space to recenter my life on things that support me, and to regain some optimism about what I can do with my life more broadly. Quitting a toxic environment is an important first step. There are good places left. Good people to work for. Different ways to live life. Choosing suicide is often related to a deep belief that there are no options left. This is often a result of compromised thinking based on intensely difficult situations/experiences that make it extremely hard to see beyond the current situation. I’ve had periods of dark thinking that I’ve since learned how to manage, and one of the most important things for me was getting a broader perspective on what was happening (and thus possible) outside of my own sphere.