Suicide and Lack of Motivation
With the constant fear that people with this obsession have, sometimes they feel they are unworthy of life, or feel they shouldn't accomplish anything in life. For example: a teenager with Sexual-based OCD may be good at art, but may be reluctant to draw for he believes he is unworthy of this talent. He or she may try to avoid family members and special occasions. The feeling of unworthiness of life may lead the patient to be suicidal and/or depressed.
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Famous quotes containing the words suicide, lack and/or motivation:
“What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide as to the practical things of this world, he never can hope to regulate his earthly conduct by that same heavenly soul?”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we’re talking about power, again, and its rather well-known impurities. Who is really going to care whether you live or die and who is going to know the most intimate motivation for your laughter and your tears is the only person to be trusted to speak for you and to decide what you will or will not do.”
—June Jordan (b. 1939)