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What is an intrusive thought you feel like you are only a couple steps away from indulging? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by Mandy@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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As for me:
Due to Christmas rapidly approaching my place earns increasing amounts of money.
It would be so easy to just snag a whole day of store income and forever vanish into another country.

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[–] rhadamanth_nemes@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Is it fair to latch the world onto people thinking like this? To chain them to suffering for years and years because any random person they interact with might be sad later?

It sucks that you feel pain from losing a friend, but does that pain outweigh the pain they were trying to escape from?