Before you read on

If you are having thoughts of ending your life, this course is not the right place for you to be right now, and reading further will not help you today. Please tell someone today. Call your local emergency number or go to your nearest emergency department. Ring a crisis line in your country. Ask your doctor for an urgent appointment and say the thoughts out loud, in plain words. Or tell a person who is physically in the room with you and stay near them. Having these thoughts is a symptom of an illness, it is more common than people say, and it is treatable. Telling someone is the thing that helps, not the thing that condemns you.

Lesson 5 of 6

One. Going over it

The hours that used to hold activity now hold thinking, and the thinking is about you.

It presents itself as working things out. Why am I like this. What is wrong with me. What did I do to end up here. Those look like questions and they are not, because none of them has an answer that would ever be accepted.

The test from lesson two is the useful one. Does the thinking end in something you do? If it never does, it is not working on the problem, whatever it feels like.

What feeds it, and what to stop adding · Inshirah