Someone close to me recently took his own life. I, like his parents, family and friends, suffered his death intensely. While no one can know what the suicidal think in their last few moments, when there is still time to rescue their futures and spare their families and friends enormous suffering, I can guess that many think they are solving a problem. The problem they perceive is their own existence, but their reckoning of their worth is always terribly skewed. Lawyers, high achievers who place enormous value on successful competition, are especially vulnerable to this erroneous calculation.
Suicide is always an issue in the psychotherapy side of my work, as I am so often dealing with people in the darkest days of their lives. Of the thousands I’ve seen over the past 30-odd years, there has been only one other person to take that irrevocable step. But there were many more who had stopped to give it consideration. What brings a person to this place?
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