I woke up this morning with a depressive feeling all too familiar to me. Thoughts that accompany this feeling are something along the lines of ‘I’m not good enough…I don’t fit in…life is finite and death can’t be avoided’. These thoughts and feelings have been with me since I was a teenager and years of therapy haven’t made them go away, although it has helped talking about them to someone. I have now trained myself as a psychotherapist and have come into contact with many people who speak of suicidal thoughts (it really is far more common than I could have imagined). Often it is linked to wanting […]
