歡迎收聽「心靈轉換力量」播客，這是一檔面向青少年及其相關成年人的節目，我們將在這裡進行坦誠而直接的對話。我是主持人法蒂瑪貝，心靈轉換專家。歡迎大家！這是兩集節目《心靈自殺》的第一集。首先，讓我解釋一下「心靈自殺」的意思。

Let's look at the definition of the word suicide. Suicide is intentionally caused self destruction. The key word in that definition is destruction. Let's define destruction specifically. Destruction is the action or process of causing so much damage to something that it no longer exists or cannot be repaired.

I'm going to repeat that again. I want you to process this. Suicide has intentionally caused self destruction. Destruction is the action or process of causing so much damage to something that it no longer exists or cannot be repaired. So typically we associate the word suicide with ending our own lives physically.

And that would be correct. But today we're going to take a deeper dive into when we do this to ourselves mentally. Are you the walking dead? Are you breathing physically? You're existing, but mentally you have offed yourself.

You you've given up. You are no longer trying to grow. You are not trying to advance. You do not see a better future. You are not trying to build a better future.

You are not trying to take care of your finances. You are not trying to do anything to advance yourself because you've given up. You've given up hope and falling it fallen into a mental death. You are no longer trying to live. You are only physically surviving, and that's it.

Can I tell you something? I understand that. It is so much easier to give up, to mentally say hope hurts. I am not giving effort anymore. There's no hope for me.

I'm just gonna mentally die. I don't really wanna physically off myself because I don't wanna go through the pain, and I'm too scared to do that. So I'm just gonna mentally give up and stop trying to live. That's what it looks like. That's when you know you've given up and you've committed mental suicide.

我們來談談這是什麼樣子的。精神自殺在實際意義上究竟是什麼樣子的？好吧，我們先從高中說起。畢竟，這部劇是給青少年看的。你還在讀高中，已經不再努力在學校裡取得更好的成績了。

You're no longer trying to make new friends or date. You're not even given an effort. You're just going to classes because you're being forced to. You're just going to whatever they want you to go to because you have to. You're not even trying to apply for college.

Hell, you're not even sure you're gonna make it to graduation. Or maybe you will make it to graduation because your family is making you, but you're not trying to do anything else. You're not trying to advance. You're not trying to figure out what you're gonna do for your future and what kind of postgraduate education you're gonna have or career you're gonna pursue. You're not even trying to do that because you've mentally already given up on yourself.

Now there are many reasons why we arrive at that spot. There are many reasons why we arrive there, but that's what it looks like. As an adult, you just go to your humdrum job every day. You're not trying to get a better job. You're not trying to advance in that job.

You're not trying to go to a better career or more fitting career. You're not trying to start your business. You're not trying to do anything but survive. You go home and smoke and watch TV and drink, and that's it. This sounding familiar to anybody?

Now mental suicide looks like a lot of things. I only named a few, but I hope you get my point. I said that I understand because I know what it's like to be on that mental ledge where it just hurts too much to hope, and you just wanna give up. I just wanna die. I don't wanna deal with this anymore.

I don't wanna deal with the pain. I just want to die. I'm gonna talk to you about what you can do when you're in that situation because like I said, I've been there, and you don't have to stay there. One of the key things that's missing when you're in that situation is hope. Hope is the reason you're in that situation, and hope is also the answer.

Let me explain what I mean. The lack of hope is what leads a person to that situation. Now why you lack hope, that is a whole another conversation, and all of you are going to have different reasons that you arrived at that place of hopelessness. There are many reasons. All of your details are gonna be different.

They will they may not be the same as mine. But that hopelessness is what causes you to arrive there. Do you know that hopeless people are some of the most dangerous people in the world? When you have no hope, you are dangerous. But in this case, the person you're most dangerous to is yourself.

Yeah. Because you have no hope for your future, so you don't try, and you kill all of the beautiful potential that's in you. You kill. You murder the potential that's in you because of your hopelessness. You can get out of that.

See, the difference between mental suicide and physical suicide is that physically, you can't come back from the dead, you know, unless you have special powers. But practically speaking, you don't come back from physical death, typically. You can come back from mental death. You can come back from it. The what you have to do is switch your focus.

這說來容易做來難。我知道，我明白。但絕望，就像我說的，希望是精神自殺的原因，但希望也是解脫的答案。所以，絕望是你最終陷入精神自殺狀態的原因，讓你在精神上放棄了生活。

能幫你擺脫困境的，是找到希望。你可能需要別人的幫助，才能在你的處境中，或為了你自己，找到那份希望。但我可以向你保證，你絕對不會獨自找到它。這就是你要告訴我的，這就是你要聽我告訴你的，這就是你需要找人來幫助你的地方。

What does that mean? Well, it means you're gonna have to find someone that you can open up to because you're not going to get out of that hopeless state by yourself. I have never heard of anyone on earth who has, and I've never seen it. It's not normal. But you can get out of it if you open up to someone.

Now, you could open up to someone professionally, but it doesn't maybe you can't afford that, and maybe you're scared, and maybe you don't trust anyone. I get that. It doesn't have to be a professional. It could be your next door neighbor. It could be someone at your church, someone at your synagogue, someone at your mosque, someone at the community center down the street, whoever.

找到那個能幫你振作起來的人。因為當你身陷絕境時，你需要有人伸出援手，幫你走出困境。這沒關係。至於具體如何幫助你走出困境，每個人的方法都不一樣，但開始注意那些你還能抱持希望的事情吧。這時，別人就會出現，幫助你找到可以專注的方向。

I'm sorry, what you can have hope in, find the hope, switch your focus and find the hope. And then you can be, you can begin to resuscitate your life mentally. When you resuscitate your mind mentally, you will have physical manifestations around you because you will start to do things that will help you. You will start to do things that will make a better future for yourself. We don't all need the same solutions in detail, but we do all need the same solutions in principle.

And the principle I'm talking about today is hope. I promise you, there are those of us out there who really do care. We really will listen to you without judgment and do the best we can to try to help you. But you gotta find us. We're not gonna we're not gonna fall out of the sky and arrive in your lap.

You gotta find us and open up. We're there. We're so willing. I am not the only one who cares this much. I am not the only one that wants to help you.

There are a lot of other people like me out there. The problem is you shut down and close us out because you think nobody's going to understand. But you just got to try, try, try to find us. Try to find us. This has been part one of mental suicide.

接下來，請聽聽「精神自殺」的第二部分。我們將與不同的聽眾進行交流。第二部分，我們將探討如何與身邊那些處於精神崩潰邊緣的人溝通。你能做些什麼來幫助那些正在經歷精神自殺的人？感謝收聽「心靈轉變力量」播客。

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