He taught me that there just random thoughts that I have a habit on obsessing over. But the thoughts are just thoughts and they cannot hurt me. I also learned thought stopping. Which I did by keeping a rubber band around my wrist. Every time I had a suicidal or violent thought I would snap myself with the rubber band. It’s basically telling the subconscious that whenever it sends my conscious a suicidal thought pain is inflicted. Therefore training the brain to quit sending them. Kind of like a shock collar on a dog. I admit that it’s like self harm, but I have found that it works very well.

I went from thinking about suicide dozens of times a day to maybe once if that. I don’t even need a rubber band now since I have trained my subconscious mind. Mindfulness meditation has also helped me a lot.