Depression and Suicide
Chronic depression bordering on suicide, brought on by a devastating loss. Excerpts from an e-mail:
‘.…the other developments are also interesting. I’m still testing out my ‘new skin’, as it were. I feel quite different and it’s still hard to describe. It’s as if I have fewer limitations all of a sudden. Missing is the sense of despair and foreboding – I no longer wake with the feeling that I want to ‘end it all’. The benefits of this change are huge. I’m able to focus on the practical aspects of my life without anxiety and fear, and don’t see every obstacle as insurmountable, as I did before. I have ‘courage’, something I’ve not had in a long, long time. There had been aspects of my life I previously avoided addressing because they caused so much pain. To be able to look at these issues dispassionately, and begin dealing with them is an empowering feeling. I’m stunned that 2 half –hour sessions have had so much impact!’
-Rita
Suicide
Imagine a young man laying on the floor of your waiting room office curled up in a fetal position. Abused and abandoned by family, always the black sheep he often says he wants to kill himself, calls 9-1-1 on an almost daily basis and has gone to jail because of this. Tossed around from mental health centre to centre over thousands of miles, because no one could help him, nor could anyone keep him out of hospital for more than a few days. Some suggested that he was beyond help, an institutionalized person, never to stand on his own two feet again.
Yesterday, he was helped with a Mace Session. The emotions he revealed included hurt and anger. Asked how he felt before the session, he said “angry” How did he feel after session? “Excellent!” He said with a smile. I was not aware before, that he even knew what the word meant, since before hand he had been so low functioning.
He came crawling into the office and walked out like a man. Thank you Dr John Mace.
Regards Robert Roerich, M.D Research Psychiatrist.
-Dr Robert Roerich wrote after adopting the Mace Method:
‘Australian Researcher Dr John Mace’s “Mace Method” advances the effective treatment of emotional illness and heralds a breakthrough of such unparalleled importance to be worthy of a “NOBEL PRIZE.’