Conrad Hall

Toronto, Canada Area Canada

Author & Marketing Consulting Copywriter

Advertising / Marketing / PR

Suicide Prevention doesn’t work. By the time I was 28, I had tried to kill myself 32 times. Every suicide prevention message was a load of crap to me because it never addressed what was driving me. Suicide numbers have been climbing steadily. USNews.com says 2015 had the highest suicide rate since 1987! Why? Because everything about suicide prevention breaks the first rule of personal development. Rule #1: You get what you focus on. Your brain doesn’t process negatives. That’s why you end up tripping when someone is always saying “don’t trip, don’t trip, don’t trip.” Your brain leaves out the “don’t.” You want to make a difference? You want to see an end to teen suicide? Then focus o...