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Rob Mack | The art and science of happiness | Muscle Maven Radio 14

But you've got others who come to a very real , um sort of understanding that that won't work any longer . They become hopeless and stressed and anxious and sometimes deeply depressed and even suicidal . Right .

Rob Mack | The art and science of happiness | Muscle Maven Radio 14

You don't wanna wake up or you just don't really want to do the things that you're normally used to doing . Um , if you have thoughts of suicide , most certainly , if you have to begin to create a plan or , you know , someone who begin to create a plan around taking action on those suicidal thoughts , that's certainly , of course , a good , a good sign . Anytime somebody suggests that they might want to hurt themselves or somebody else , definitely wanna take notice of that and definitely wanna seek out professional help .

Rob Mack | The art and science of happiness | Muscle Maven Radio 14

So this happened for years and years . And so the suicidal ideation that I was experiencing in my young childhood , in my adolescence in my young adulthood , even as I applied a lot of the principles , I still continued to experience that suicidal ideation . And I had continued to experience the depression to a large extent , uh , for years .

Rob Mack | The art and science of happiness | Muscle Maven Radio 14

I just felt real like joy and limitless love and I could not explain it right . So I decided at that moment , I was gonna postpone suicide for like an hour , which was like a really long time to me then because I was deeply , deeply depressed and unhappy . And I spent that hour researching ways um to kind of solve for this happiness thing for this depression thing .

Rob Mack | The art and science of happiness | Muscle Maven Radio 14

And this man has done a lot of work in understanding how our brains work , how we uh how we think , how we sabotage ourselves a lot of times . Um And he's had to really work through this himself because of his own struggles and issues with depression and suicidal thoughts and all of these things . So another thing that I wanna let you know off the top is that we do talk about some deep topics we do get into suicide and depression .