Yes, You Deserve To Live, Even If Your Thoughts Say Otherwise

Thanks to Grow Therapy for sponsoring this video! Head to https://growtherapy.yt.link/JIZXfpb to find your dream therapist today! Sometimes suicidal thoughts aren’t about not enjoying life. Sometimes they come from something darker: “I don’t deserve to be here.” “Maybe dying would be the right thing.” In this video, I challenge that logic with one question that tends to collapse it: "Would the rule you’re using against yourself still make sense if you applied it to all of humanity?" Because most people live under two sets of standards: 1. the ones they apply to everyone, and 2. the brutal, private “me-only” rules they’d never apply to anyone else I unpack: - the “holds up at scale” filter (and why it matters) - how self-judgment becomes a private “death-squad” standard - why “earning the right to live” is a dangerous framework - the question that exposes whether your rule is actually universal—or just self-hatred dressed up as morality If you’re struggling right now: please don’t do this alone. Reach out to someone you trust or a professional. If my videos have helped, my new book, The Light Between the Leaves, goes even deeper https://bit.ly/DrScottLightBetweentheLeavesYT Next Steps: 📩 Get Practical tools for navigating life with depression and anxiety, delivered weekly. https://bit.ly/SelfHopePsychology Mental Health Coaching with me: https://bit.ly/DrScottWebYT Therapy with me (for people in Iowa) https://bit.ly/DrScottNorthYT About me: I know what it is to feel hopelessly stuck and worthless to the world in general. I also know what it is to live without those feelings. I’m both a Clinical Psychology specializing in treatment-resistant depression and anxiety, and a human who has spent more than a decade managing sever depression and anxiety. Resources 🪣 Get my free 5-day guide to reclaiming your time and energy despite mental health struggles. https://bit.ly/DrScottBucketTheory 😴 Dramatically improve your sleep in 2 steps with my new Sleep Workbook. https://bit.ly/DrScottSleepYT 📖 My 1st book: For When Everything is Burning https://bit.ly/forwheneverythingisburning Thanks for your support: 🤝 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://bit.ly/DrScottJoinYT Subscribe to The Psychology of Depression and Anxiety Podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/DrScottAppPodYT Spotify: https://bit.ly/DrScottPodYT Disclaimer: This content is not intended to be a replacement for receiving treatment. It is purely educational in nature. My relationship with you is that of presenter and audience, not therapist and client. But I do care.