A practical alternative to suicide
Channel: gerlach
Date: 2012-04-25

A veteran trauma-recovery therapist proposes that psychological despair is a symptom of major childhood trauma and inner wounds. When despair and weariness promote thoughts of ending life, an alternative is to retrain the personality "subselves" causing suicidal thoughts, and freeing the wise resident true Self to find solutions to current (non-medical) problems. For more information, see http://sfhelp.org/gwc/suicide.htm