This option has a new element - hope. I have a different point of view. That is, you suffer more and longer, thinking it will get better. I had a friend who died two years ago. They suffered needlessly for two weeks.
Some people do it for an even longer time.
It changes you forever. It's that ongoing search for answers for guidance, for a way out of it all. But you keep trying to make sense of it, and it burns you from the inside because you know it's all for nothing. I don't know what to do anymore. I'm out of excuses.