Learning to Cope With a Mind’s Taunting Voices

By New York Times

LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. — The job was gone, the gun was loaded, and a voice was saying, "You're a waste, give up now, do it now."

It was a command, not a suggestion, and what mattered at that moment — a winter evening in 2000 — was not where the voice was coming from, but how assured it was, how persuasive.

Losing his first decent job ever seemed like too much for Joe Holt to live