{"id":118659,"date":"2025-03-18T03:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=118659"},"modified":"2025-03-18T03:12:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T08:12:51","slug":"entering-the-suicidal-persons-world-understanding-their-experiences-emotions-and-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=118659","title":{"rendered":"Entering the Suicidal Person\u2019s World: Understanding Their Experiences, Emotions, and Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&rsquo;s Note: This week&rsquo;s mini&#x2d;series on the Grace and Truth blog is a recap of our 2024 Annual BCC Leadership Summit, which was held in December at Country Lake Christian Retreat in Underwood, Indiana, and addressed the topic &ldquo;Suicide: Hope for the Hopeless.&rdquo; In this second article, Rush Witt explores the motivation of those considering suicide. In other contributions to the series&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2025\/03\/18\/entering-the-suicidal-persons-world-understanding-their-experiences-emotions-and-expectations\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My contribution to the BCC Leadership Summit felt bitter and sweet. I certainly appreciated the opportunity to remind each other of Psalm 34:18: &#8220;The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.&#8221; But I cannot imagine a more difficult topic than suicide. In this post, I will provide a summary overview of the session I presented, \u201cEntering the Suicidal Person\u2019s World.\u201d Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":118661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[279],"tags":[5159,5361,708,2185,812],"class_list":["post-118659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-bcc-leadership-summit","tag-mini-series","tag-people-who-offer-care","tag-people-who-train-caregivers","tag-suicide","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cropped-bcc-site-icon-1-32x32-5.webp?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118662,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118659\/revisions\/118662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}