Standing in a shopping mall looking down to the floors below and think to myself. “Jump” In no way do I want to kill myself but when I brought this up a lot of my friends had been through the same thing. Ive started to see memes about it online. So what’s up? [jump! ](https://d279m997dpfwgl.cloudfront.net/wp/2018/06/0629_reddit-void-main-1000×1425.jpg)
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I’ve heard it called *The Imp of the Perverse*; an urge to do the absolutely wrong thing in any given situation.
As for why it happens, I have no idea. Might be a result of our brain being able to figure out that doing something is incredibly stupid (which is a good thing to be able to do) and then having to resist acting upon this thing it identified as something that it *can* do. Perhaps the mere holding of an idea in your head gives you the urge to act upon it that must then be resisted.
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