%%Post image thumbnail below.%% # Episode Overview > - **Date Aired:** [[12-12-2023]] > - **Title:** The Call of the Void > - **Episode:** 269 > - **Description:** The urge to self-sabotage before things can go wrong seems to be running rampant in certain circles. Let's talk about it. > - **Link:** https://rumble.com/v40yupm-big-dig-energy-269-the-call-of-the-void.html ## Replay %% Get embed URL then highlight and hit ALT + I%% <iframe src="https://rumble.com/embed/v3ydh3a/?pub=6eeyh" allow="fullscreen" allowfullscreen="" style="height:100%;width:100%; aspect-ratio: 16 / 9; "></iframe> <br> ## Greetings & Announcements 1. Dig for Publish on various Trump Executive Orders moved to Thursday, so I can do it justice. 2. For the remainder of the year: - Piers Morgan - Robert Maxwell/Tetris - The Political TikTok Formula (Jeff Jackson) - RFK Jr. - JFK/AIPAC - 2023 Year In Review ## Segments ### L’appel du Vide Have you ever been standing on the edge of a steep dropoff—whether it be a building or a cliff—and felt an inexplicable urge to jump? If not, have you ever been driving down the road, and had a brief moment in which you considered what might happen if you just veered into oncoming traffic? This urge has a name: high place phenomenon or "the call of the void." For a long time, this fairly-common urge has been considered to be a sign of potential suicidality, but a paper published in late 2011 suggests something else: **The urge to jump is an affirmation of the will to live.**  Full Text: https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/j.jad.2011.10.035 From the abstract: > **Background:** The experience of a sudden urge to jump when in a high place has been speculated to be associated with suicidal ideation; however, scant data has informed this speculation. We termed this experience the high place phenomenon (HPP) and proposed that it stems from a misinterpreted safety signal (i.e., survival instinct). The present study aimed to assess the prevalence of the HPP, to provide evidence that the phenomenon is not exclusive to suicide ideators, and to explore the role of anxiety sensitivity in the phenomenon. > > **Results:** The HPP was commonly reported in the general population, even among participants with no history of suicidal ideation. There was a significant correlation between anxiety sensitivity and the HPP, and this relationship was moderated by level of current suicidal ideation. Particularly, the relationship between anxiety sensitivity and the HPP was potentiated among participants with low levels of suicidal ideation. > > **Conclusions:** The HPP is commonly experienced among suicide ideators and non-ideators alike. Thus, individuals who report experiencing the phenomenon are not necessarily suicidal; rather, the experience of HPP may reflect their sensitivity to internal cues and actually affirm their will to live. From the text: > When an individual walks across a high bridge, a message such as “back up, you might fall” is rapidly fired and the individual might notice him or herself back away or grasp the railing. After becoming aware that he or she is not in danger of actually falling because there is a railing in place and the structure is sturdy, some individuals may conclude that they must have wanted to jump and thus must have a death wish involving heights. > > Instead of the high place phenomenon defending the view that everyone has a “death wish” or that “suicide is impulsive,” we propose that at its core, the experience of the high place phenomenon stems from the misinterpretation of a safety or survival signal (e.g., “back up, you might fall”). Ironically, on this view, the phenomenon, far from underscoring death strivings, instead illuminates the nature and strength of humans' survival instinct. In particular, we propose that fear plays a role in the misinterpretation of a safety signal. It follows that if a misinterpreted safety signal is at the core of the high place phenomenon, individuals who tend to be more sensitive to such safety signals will be more likely to report experiencing the phenomenon, as compared to individuals who are not as sensitive to safety signals. ### Melissa DeRosa is Back! 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