New gun owner here. How do i stop intrusively thinking about blowing my brains out? I'm not suicidal at all, but I can't stop thinking about putting the gun to hear and pulling the trigger. apparently this call to void is normal, but it's weird as fuck
Just do it in vr. See people do that shit all the time
You just learn to live with it.
>apparently this call to void is normal
No it fucking isn't. Take more B vitamins and stay the fuck off /k/. We have enough mutants here.
Seconded. Stay off PrepHole. Go outside and touch grass until you have yourself under control.
This place is crazy.
Also: avoid Facebook and the like. It’s not the gun. There’s something else going on in your head.
Yeah its normal. sometimes I pretend with a clear gun with the mag out infront of the bathroom and even pull the trigger. the slim chance that I forgot to clear the chamber excites me. I laugh at my own reflection lol. Its pretty normal. Curiosity excitement and fun I guess
Russian roulette is a normal part of gun ownership.
It was fairly normal for me when I was like 18 or so. Are you young? Maybe it’s a young brain thing. Eventually I got over it and now all I think about is shooting my wife.
>another fake suicide attention thread
it's like living near an airport.
elaborate
t. lived right next to a major airport for years
Not the same guy, but something like: "annoying noise comes, annoying noise goes, nothing you can do, getting mad about it only makes it more distracting"
>apparently this call to void is normal, but it's weird as fuck
It is an instinct thing. Enhancing your fear of throwing yourself off a thing means you're more likely to stay away from the edge and therefore more likely to breed.
>annoying noise comes, annoying noise goes, nothing you can do, getting mad about it only makes it more distracting
Funny you say that, i got used to the planes in an instant. Loud neighbours were profoundly more irritating.
Exercise, daylight, and the outdoors.
Therapy if you can afford it.
just spend money on your gun. then you will realize that you will be too busy fearing what retard will end up having your carefully constructed gucci gun or your retarded parents selling it for cheap
Think about what a fucking failure you are if you want to kys. There are billions of souls who want to inhabit your body and enjoy the wonders of nodern society, and they look down on you in absolute anger.
>There are billions of souls who want to inhabit your body and enjoy the wonders of modern society
>none of them want to do ghost sex
>New gun owner here. How do i stop intrusively thinking about blowing my brains out?
Having a gun in the house massively increases your chance of dying by suicide. Men with a gun in the house are eight times more likely to die by suicide. It's an independent risk factor - the gun itself increases your chance of dying by suicide on its own.
So the answer is - you don't. Owning a gun is dangerous and if you want to own a gun you have to accept the danger that comes with it.
Absolute retard advice.
it's not advice, it's statistics (Not
but he's right)
Intrusive thoughts in general are normal, they just become a problem if you obsess over them, if you give them attention the brain thinks they're important and keeps bringing them up.
Get rid of the gun until you are in a better place mentally. Suicide is usually an impulsive decision and having a gun will make it very easy to act on that impulse.
Do you also get in a car and get intrusive thoughts to run people over, or when you pick up a knife do you get the urge to stab yourself or others?
Not OP but it's funny you bring that up because I genuinely have never had suicidal thoughts around my guns - if anything they make me feel happier, more grounded, etc.
But every time I'm driving it definitely gnaws at the back of my mind "I could just turn this wheel to the left really fast lol" especially when there's an 18 wheeler in the oncoming lane
>I genuinely have never had suicidal thoughts around my guns - if anything they make me feel happier, more grounded, etc.
yeah same. I dont ever talk to my family about my guns even though I love them. I wouldn't be able to handle it if they went overboard and red flagged me or got me committed over some bullshit just because I own guns. range days are one of the only things that make me feel normal these days.
You may have (extremely minor) OCD. Raging or worrying over the thought just makes it stronger, so let it go the best you can. Only a microscopic number of people ever act on their intrusive thoughts; the reason they find them distressing is because they are inconsistent with their actual desires.
You don't, might as well get it over with now.
Shoot it a bunch, clean it, disassemble /reassemble, until you're bored, eventually it will become just another tool, like a stapler or power drill and the morbid fascination will fade
>this is normal
no it's not. call to void is walking past a giant cliff and briefly thinking "huh what if I jumped off, wouldn't that be crazy?" before going about your day.
you are suicidal and should not be left near any firearms.
Try thinking about blowing other peoples brains out. Preferably bad ones.
The first time I held a gun I was at the range with a nice instructor telling me what to do. He loaded up a gun with one bullet and said to fire it off then check the chamber etc etc. So I pick up the gun and I'm hit with an out of nowhere pull to rotate right at the instructor and shoot, like immediately watched theoretical me do that the second it was in my hand. It scared me a lot, wasn't like a regular daydream at all. I didn't do it obviously and went on with the day and fired off a bunch and learned a lot from the guy. Came to eventually like guns. But it was so unique and jarring and self generated that it created a core memory and I think about it once in a while. I didn't like that at all, also why I'll never become a range instructor.
You fags are trolling me right? Go get some fresh air.
Suicide watch pansies I've had like 3 suicidal thoughts in 32 years and 2 of those I was extremely hungover and was out of my head.
It's your responsibility to be there for your friends and family you think they don't have it hard too?
>don't have any?
Go make em.
Now go outside you dumb fucks
This is masterful bait.
>gives exactly the wrong advice
>turns the fact that he has no idea what he's talking into a way to condescend about the topic
>the tone
>the picture
10/10, but you didn't fool me.
I'm married with 4 kids and think about suicide daily; I figured it was normal, since I've known about 8 guys who an heroed.
I just learned to live with it.
>wife
>wants to kill self
fucking duh anon
Did you try not being a tranny
Why stop yourself? Just indulge. It's a self-solving problem.
>hi /k/ I am a mentally unstable dude who just got a gun and my mind is telling me to kill myself
Unironically you should:
1. Not be allowed to have a gun.
2. Give it to a close friend who would be one that you feel comfortable opening up to. They need to keep it safe while you are looney. If the looney persists, see point 1.
shall not be infringed you communist fucking homosexual
By doing it.
Buy an airsoft replica and train safe gun handling.
Once you have internalized the instinct that the muzzle is not supposed to be aimed at yourself you're allowed to touch the real one again.
I've had suicidal thoughts all of my life. Sometimes I can feel the muzzle against my chin I want it so bad. It's like craving a food so bad you can feel the texture in your mouth. Fucking nut up and stop being a bitch. If you can't handle being a man sell your gun, red flag yourself, and cut your dick off.
>Fucking nut up and stop being a bitch
You're already a bitch, mate. You can't make yourself into a non-suicidal person just by pretending that you are. Get some therapy bro.
>Get some therapy bro.
I did. Meds, too. Made me worse. I was never unhappier than when I was getting help. I'm Hikki now, just do whatever I feel like. Don't feel like much. I feel better pretending people aren't inherently evil when I'm not constantly surrounded by them.
Start collecting all those intrusive thoughts in a basket. Not acting on them is proof of how mighty you've been all along. You aren't supposed to be oblivious to evil, but to refuse it every moment of every day. Do not be afraid of the intrusive thoughts. You aren't locked in your head with them, they are locked in your head with you.
Take comfort in it, it's like owning an escape hatch. No matter how awful things get or how bad you mess up you can always make it all go away instantly and not have to worry. Wtf would you even want to own a gun for if not such peace of mind?
I had a friend shoot themselves thinking this, and yeah they died, after 2 hours of bleeding out of the head in abject agony and horror.
Where did he shoot himself?
He was bleeding out of his head, I hope to God that's where he shot himself.
We didn't get a lot of details but head was mentioned, probably under the chin. He was 17. When his father found him he was struggling and still begging to live. The body is strange shooting yourself is not a guarantee. Don't even think it unless you were just in a nuke radius and didn't die immediately.
haha, don't worry OP. my dad almost killed himself like this during his military service.
>obsessing over WWII resistance fighters
>how they offed themselves to avoid being captured
>what is the feeling of putting the gun to your head and pulling the trigger
>takes out the gun, removes the magazine
>positive he disassembled it before and removed the firing pin anyways
>can't bring himself to pull the trigger
>inspects the gun
>finds he forgot a cartridge in the chamber. and the firing pin is in place
supposedly it taught him to be less retarded
around guns
keep it in a safe. I usually come to my senses before I have my safe unlocked.
uhhhh just how many /k/ommandos own guns and kinda want to kill themselves here, because it seems like most.
I don't buy a gun specifically because of this
Unironically handle your guns more. Unload a gun and then disassemble, clean, and dry fire it so much that you no longer think of it as purely an implement of death. The more it sits in a drawer or a safe out of your reach, the more it will burn a hole in your brain whenever the sad feefees come up, and if you've never shot or handled the gun before you will ONLY think of it as a means of kys instead of a tool for a hobby.
This is the correct advise. This is nearly universal among collectors and hobbyists BTW- I collect knives and after I get a new one I basically fetishize it, carry it, fondle it, open and close it, think about how it can be used, sharpen it, clean it, test it out...until I don't and I'm suddenly fine with slotting it away and thinking about the next one.
guns only have one purpose unlike knives, so you're fixated on that only thing it can do, so that seems unnerving to you but it is totally normal
I had that too in the beginning.
Eventually it subsided and now they're just tools.
You people are fucked in the head. Leave /k/ and never come back.
Somewhere along the line, you were conditioned to strongly associate firearms with suicide. Could've been movies or just someone you knew who did it. After getting to know your guns a bit more and really enjoying them, you won't think about it anymore.
>I'm not suicidal at all, but I can't stop thinking about putting the gun to hear and pulling the trigger.
And just like that, anon confesses to having unaddressed PTSD.
No, this isn’t healthy and normal; the fact you’re on PrepHole asking for mental health advice is proof of that. To what other anons have said, take your vitamins, work on your diet, unplug and go outside.
If you need an immediate ingratiation of these urges, put a snap cap in your gun and simulate offing yourself, see how you feel after going through the motions. If the urge persists, sell your gun and put the money into a therapist.
Tons of bad advice itt. There is a difference between anxiety and angst, angst is the phenomenon of acknowledging that your will could waiver (referenced throughout this thread as "call to void"). It has less to do with the reality of the situation; rather its a "fundamental" consequence of human perception - i.e., shooting yourself in the head is an option presented by your gun. Yes, yes it is; however, you're not going to do it because youre not retarded. You should only be worried about suicide if you are geniunely considering it - particularly if you are planning it out logistically in your head, and you repeatedly do so. If you are interested in reading up on the subject, satre "being and nothingness" or merleau ponty "phenomenology of perception" are good books to pick up.