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Robert Mack shared a personal experience about his struggle with depression and suicidal thoughts. He mentioned that he was depressed for a long time and reached a point where he began to look up ways to kill himself. He even had an experience where he decided to slash or slit his wrist. However, he also expressed that he thought he would grow out of the depression, believing that accomplishing more would help. Ultimately, he shared that he reached a moment where he seriously contemplated ending his life, and in that moment, he came to the end of thinking or thought altogether.

How To Manage Your Energy

And then I got a little bit into the story that I got into with you . I got , you know , I shared that story with him around the depression and suicide and suicidal experience . And um I fell off a son right to my right there was a , a young man standing there with him and I didn't really notice right away and uh apparently it was his son and someone was getting really upset , really worked up .

How To Manage Your Energy

I mean , I mean , and I was even worse than that . I was like , to your point , I was depressed for so long and I was suicidal for so long . I mean , it was , uh , something I thought the depression , at least I thought I'd grow out of it , you know , you think , well , I just need to accomplish more , you know , getting good grades isn't enough .

How To Manage Your Energy

I am so thrilled to have my friend and S BC coach Robert Mack with us . Robert is the author of Happiness from the Inside Out . This is one of those books where you can see my tags .

How To Manage Your Energy

This is not what I intended . Got to a place I was so suicidal that I began to look up ways and means and methods to kill myself . Um , and I even had a suicidal uh , experience there where I decided I was gonna slash or slip my wrist .

How To Manage Your Energy

Got to a place I was so suicidal that I began to look up ways and means and methods to kill myself . Um , and I even had a suicidal uh , experience there where I decided I was gonna slash or slip my wrist . And I , um you know , I dug the knife into my wrist and I mean , strangely enough in that moment , I experienced like this inexplicable , ineffable , peace , love and joy , the kind of which I had never experienced before that I had never experienced even when I was achieving accomplishment acquiring all these other things to beautiful German cars and health and all this stuff .