All posts tagged "suicide"
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Michael Schreiner | April 3, 2018
When a Loved One Commits Suicide
Painful Feelings Linger When a loved one commits suicide there are usually lingering, painful feelings of resentment, hostility,...
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Michael Schreiner | August 27, 2016
The Capacity To Be Bored Is A Blessing
If humans were incapable of getting bored it would be a curse not a blessing since it would...
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Michael Schreiner | August 26, 2016
Cry For Help
“Please hear my cry for help and save me from myself” – Daniel Johnston Most people who are...
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Michael Schreiner | September 22, 2015
Suicide And Making Others Suffer
People who are suicidal are engaged in a variety of faulty thinking patterns. A common one we want...
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Michael Schreiner | September 21, 2015
Narrative Therapy For Wanting To Hurt Yourself
Narrative therapy posits that you’re not the problem, the problem is the problem. The paradigm urges you to...
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Michael Schreiner | March 25, 2015
Dark Times
“If one candle is brought into an absolutely dark room, the darkness disappears, and there is light. If...
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Michael Schreiner | March 13, 2015
Light At The End Of The Tunnel
We have been writing a lot lately about how to help people struggling with hopelessness. In this post...
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Michael Schreiner | March 13, 2015
Hopelessness Is Internal
There is a widespread fallacy that hopelessness has to do with external variables, that if this or that...
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Michael Schreiner | March 11, 2015
Suicide And Narcissism
People who are contemplating suicide have tunnel vision, they’re in an incredibly subjective place. They’re focused on their...
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Michael Schreiner | March 10, 2015
Despair
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Frederick Nietzsche Why is it...