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Archive for August 6th, 2009

Two NLP coaches whom I know personally actually coached this kid several years ago, and they will confirm the fact that when they asked about his thoughts on suicide the one point which he was adamant about was the virtue of the act … (many of you might be thinking, “Huh?” … “the virtue of suicide?” … “WTF?” … yes, most of us in life will agree that suicide would obviously be the wrong choice … however, not everyone sees it that way …

You see, even as an adult this kid looked back on those situations and, in every one, the things which he faced in life were simply too much for him to handle … at that point in his life he simply didn’t have the skills, abilities, knowledge and inner resources he needed to deal with the adversities life was throwing at him — his comment to my NLP colleagues was basically “…based on where I was at mentally & emotionally along with everything I was facing in life, I he absolutely, completely, wholeheartedly believed that the best choice would actually have been to end it all!”

Lucky for his family, humans don’t always choose what they believe to be the “Right” decision … and in this case study, when he was a boy he decided to rebel against everything which he knew to be the “Correct” choice (to take his own life) …

Why? — quite simply it was because he was pissed off with always getting screwed over by life … his thoughts were,”If Life wasn’t going to give me what I want then I sure as hell ain’t gonna give Life what it wants!” — so, in the end it was his own anger, angst, hatred and resentment which he used to fight back against those thoughts and feelings which sought to overwhelm him … he used all that pent up rage to get through those tough times in his life when everything seemed utterly hopeless … however, a coping strategy utilizing negative emotions will cause it’s own troubles in life … ones he’d soon come to face as an adult …