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These obstacles impact almost all of us at some point in our lives. And we often feel like it's the end. In his post “What's the Most Difficult CEO Skill?,” entrepreneur-turned-venture capitalist Ben Horowitz writes that managing your own psychology is the most difficult skill. CEOs often succumb to that WFIO. Pronounced as whee-f-eyo, it’s that sinking feeling. We are f**ked … It's Over! And in such situations, one option that surfaces is to self-destruct.

Sigmund Freud wrote that “the tendency to self-destruction exists to a certain degree in many more persons than in those who bring it to completion.”

In the United States, the ratios of suicide attempts to suicide deaths are approximately 100:1.ssss1

A lot of us think about it. A few actually do it. It is okay that we have an occasional thought.ssss1 We are just afraid to talk about it.

When we are in a funk, we keep thinking about suicide. Those thoughts might keep spinning in our heads, and soon some of us even start to research the how-to options. We might identify the various steps, and plan the final exit in great detail.