Threat Management - Not All Threats Are Physical
Threats are generally addressed as things that can cause you physical harm, so solutions are avoidance, solving the problem by removing or negating the threat, or eliminating the threat completely by destroying it. Thus, deciding on a solution can be as simple as recognizing the problem and then if it is not particularly significant, you fix it so it's no longer a problem. If it is greatly significant and a direct threat, you kill it. Either way, it is solved and life moves on.
What happens when the threat is mental or emotional? Usually, it can't just be easily fixed, nor would it be prudent to just shoot it. Yet these threats can be just as real and as powerful as any kind of physical attack. Most people face these things at one time or another, sometimes an answer is found to make the situation better, sometimes not. I don't know where the answers are found. Perhaps religion works for some, a reexamination of the self for others, shedding habits that cause strife, even writing in a journal my bring about answers. And some people just cannot do much of anything and the threat takes over their entire lives.
While I can easily show someone how to shoot in a hurry, I have no such luck with emotional or mental issues. What I do know is that if these kinds of things are indeed major problems in your life, it is critical that you do not let yourself lose your own self-worth. The qualities that make you who you are tend to be the very qualities that will eventually give you the strength to survive the situation and come through it as a stronger and more self-assured person. Anything survived gives you an advantage the next time one of these threats appear. Eventually, you will come to accept them and know that you can overcome whatever jumps out to attack your mental or emotional state. Maybe it is like a gunfight but using different kinds of bullets...
What happens when the threat is mental or emotional? Usually, it can't just be easily fixed, nor would it be prudent to just shoot it. Yet these threats can be just as real and as powerful as any kind of physical attack. Most people face these things at one time or another, sometimes an answer is found to make the situation better, sometimes not. I don't know where the answers are found. Perhaps religion works for some, a reexamination of the self for others, shedding habits that cause strife, even writing in a journal my bring about answers. And some people just cannot do much of anything and the threat takes over their entire lives.
While I can easily show someone how to shoot in a hurry, I have no such luck with emotional or mental issues. What I do know is that if these kinds of things are indeed major problems in your life, it is critical that you do not let yourself lose your own self-worth. The qualities that make you who you are tend to be the very qualities that will eventually give you the strength to survive the situation and come through it as a stronger and more self-assured person. Anything survived gives you an advantage the next time one of these threats appear. Eventually, you will come to accept them and know that you can overcome whatever jumps out to attack your mental or emotional state. Maybe it is like a gunfight but using different kinds of bullets...
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