Objective Reasoning: Truth About the Reality of Suicide

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Personal Ownership

I recently listened to an episode of Joe Rogan’s podcast in which he discussed Theo Von’s purported issues with mental, emotional, and behavioral health (collectively “mental health”), as I thought of a psychoeducational lesson on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT).

Before elaborating, it’s worth noting that when practicing REBT I use personal responsibility and accountability (collectively “ownership”). For better understanding, responsibility is defined as the quality or state of being responsible, such as a moral, legal, or mental accountability.

Here, “responsible” is defined as liable to be called to account as the primary cause, motive, or agent, and being able to answer for one’s conduct and obligations—something, such as the demands of conscience or custom, that obligates one to a course of action.

Also, “accountable” is defined as subject to giving an account—a statement explaining one’s conduct. Accountability is defined as the quality or state of being accountable, especially regarding an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one’s actions.

When providing psychoeducational lessons on REBT, a psychotherapeutic modality which arguably requires that one preferably should take personal ownership in order to reduce self-distress or self-disturbance, I lean heavily on both responsibility and accountability.

This is because I maintain that people have personal agency (a person’s ability to control one’s own reactions to activating events which are beyond one’s own dominion, especially when one’s response is limited by someone or something else). This is a matter of self-empowerment.

Rogan Discussing Von and Suicide

I’ll address Joe Rogan’s personal ownership in a bit. Now, during the latter part of 2025, there was a video on social media that purportedly depicted Theo Von’s on-stage performance in which he appears to have stated, “I’m having a long month. I’m tryin’ not to take my own life.”

On Rogan’s podcast, episode #2478 (4/2/2026) with Von, the latter stated among other things, “All of our fuckin’ money goes to Israel, and they’re usin’ it to fuckin’ genocide people,” to which the former responded, “We gotta get you off those antidepressants, son. You’re losin’ your fuckin’ marbles!”

To lose one’s marbles is to become insane (a dated, usually offensive term meaning one exhibiting a severely disordered state of mind), as I observed people on social media criticizing Rogan for ostensibly inferring that Von was crazy (not mentally sound), which is dismissive.

In the next section, I’ll address the common misunderstanding about mental health whereby people often confuse thoughts and beliefs which are irrational (not in accordance with both logic and reason) with insanity, craziness, a loss of marbles, etc. For now, I’ll focus on Rogan.

On Rogan’s podcast, episode #2499 (4/2/2026) with Marcus King, the latter discussed his objection to how antidepressants are prescribed. The former than envoked Von’s name when stating, “Yeah, Theo Von’s going through the exact same thing.” This was Von’s private matter.

As well, Rogan discussed the topic of suicide, as it allegedly concerns Von. This, too, is a particularly sensitive topic — one which was ostensibly shared by Rogan to an entire global audience. Regarding suicide, the American Psychological Association (APA) states:

[T]he act of intentionally taking one’s own life. Death by suicide can occur in the context of a major depressive episode, but it may also occur as a result of substance use or other physical or mental disorders.

It can manifest independently of any psychiatric disorder, sometimes without warning signs, particularly as a result of stressful circumstances such as prolonged bereavement, bullying, financial difficulties, or declining health.

I have no personal knowledge of Von’s history with suicide or attempted suicide. For clarity, the APA states of attempted suicide:

[A] deliberate but unsuccessful attempt to take one’s own life. Research has suggested that older men who are of low socioeconomic status and who are single, divorced, or widowed are at an especially high risk for suicide. Many studies have found an association between childhood physical or sexual abuse and a history of death by suicide as well.

Additional risk factors include hopelessness, heightened impulsivity, problem-solving deficits, perfectionism, a family history of suicide, and certain mental disorders (i.e., depression, bipolar disorder, substance use disorders, psychotic disorders). Although protective factors are studied far less commonly, one of the most consistently identified is a supportive social network or family.

Per The BMJ, “It is absurd to use drugs for depression that increase the risk of suicide and homicide when we know that cognitive behavioural therapy [CBT] can halve the risk of suicide in patients who have been admitted after a suicide attempt […] and when psychotherapy does not increase the risk of murder.”

Noteworthy, per a statement from the Albert Ellis Institute, “REBT is the pioneering form of [CBT] developed by Dr. Albert Ellis in 1955.” This claim is contrary to what another source asserts, “In the 1960s, Aaron Beck developed [CBT].” Either way, REBT is a form of CBT.

According to the previous citation from The BMJ, this approach to mental health care is more helpful to those who experience suicidal ideation (thoughts about or a preoccupation with killing oneself, often as a symptom of a major depressive episode) than antidepressants.

At any rate, on Rogan’s podcast, episode #2501 (4/2/2026) with Marc Andreessen, Rogan addressed his aforementioned comments regarding Von. Specifically, after Andreessen was no longer present, Rogan stated in part:

I just, sort of, wanted to, kind of, explain why I have this thing with Theo where I just want him to be okay. And, you know, we did a podcast a while back where we were talking about, um, he started talkin’ about Israel and I was like, ‘I think you’re just losing your mind.’

And a lot of people like, ‘You’re covering for Israel.’ And, it wasn’t what I was tryin’ to do. And it is my fault. It’s, it’s clunky, and I was just tryin’ to talk him off the ledge, because I had seen this video [i.e., Von stating, “I’m tryin’ not to take my own life”]. […]

I got scared, because, first of all, I love Theo. And second of all, because I’ve known multiple people that have taken their own life, that I was close to, that I didn’t know they were gonna do it until they did it. And when they did it, you feel so fucked and so helpless. You don’t know what you could’ve said or done differently.

First, I applaud Rogan’s use of personal ownership concerning what others apparently considered his nonadaptive behavior when criticizing Von’s perspective on Israel and mannerisms on the podcast episode with Von. It isn’t easy to own one’s outcome in this way.

Next, Rogan used justification for evoking Von’s alleged matter of suicide and antidepressants. According to Rogan, this was done from a place of rational compassion — which people often refer to as “empathy” — for his friend (i.e., “I just want him [Von] to be okay”).

I won’t focus on Von’s view of Israel, as I’ve done so throughout my blog. Rather, it’s worth noting that Rogan used fear (i.e., “I got scared”) as a motive for his evocation of Von, as Rogan has known “multiple people” who’ve completed suicide. This warrants a lesson on REBT.

REBT uses the ABC model to illustrate that when an undesirable Action occurs and you Believe an unhelpful narrative about the event, it’s your unfavorable assumption, not the occurrence itself, that causes an unpleasant Consequence. This is known as distress or disturbance.

Noteworthy, with virtually any undesirable Action that occurs, it’s your unfavorable Beliefs which cause unpleasant distress or disturbance (Consequence). Given this framing of self-distress and self-disturbance, it’s worth noting that one REBT source states (page 71):

REBT conceptualizes [distress] as healthy even though it is intense. Other approaches to therapy have as their goal the reduction of the intensity of negative emotions. They take this position because they do not keenly differentiate between healthy negative emotions (distress) and unhealthy negative emotions (disturbance).

Now, REBT keenly distinguishes between healthy distress and unhealthy disturbance. Healthy distress stems from your rational beliefs about a negative activating event [Action], whilst disturbance stems from your irrational beliefs about the same event.

Complete elimination of distress is highly unlikely in an impermanent and uncertain world wherein people conceptually suffer, struggle, and battle with, or merely experience hardship. Still, individuals often make matters worse for themselves by disturbing about such instances.

In particular, there are four predominate irrational beliefs which people often use to distress or disturb themselves: global evaluations, low frustration tolerance, awfulizing, and demandingness. When contemplating these unproductive scripts, think of the acronym GLAD.

Worth noting, the two forms of should, must, and ought demands with which people most often distress or disturb are associated with use of absolutistic and conditional beliefs. Generally speaking, these scripts serve as inflexible commands used toward oneself, others, and life.

An absolute must narrative is, “You absolutely must do as I say!” A conditional should narrative is, “Either you should do as I say, or you should be punished!” Noteworthy, in REBT literature, demandingness of this sort is said to function as a primary appraisal mechanism of self-upset.

Global evaluations (i.e., self-downing, other-downing, and life-downing), low frustration tolerance (also known as frustration intolerance), and awfulizing (e.g., terrible, horrible, etc.) function as secondary appraisal mechanisms. Together, GLAD will make you sad or mad, etc.

While still functioning as prescriptive rather than descriptive, flexible use of recommendatory, preferential, ideal, empirical, moral and ethical, and legal ought beliefs won’t inevitably cause disturbance, as they may align with distress. Rigidity versus flexibility makes a difference.

Additionally, from a psychological standpoint, people distress or disturb themselves using a Belief-Consequence (B-C) connection. Of course, this isn’t to suggest that in the context of the naturalistic or physical world there is no Action-Consequence (A-C) connection.

From an A-C view, if person X uses an express method for a suicide attempt, such as a firearm (Action), then this individual may die (Consequence). For the sake of argument, suppose that Rogan knows person X. From a B-C view, a completed suicide doesn’t cause Rogan’s fear.

Person X competes suicide (Action) and Rogan hypothetically Believes, “I’m worthless for not having stopped the event [G], and I couldn’t stand another friend’s suicide [L], because that’d be terrible [A], so it mustn’t ever happen again [D],” as he then experiences dread (Consequence).

Addressing how people upset themselves with unhelpful attitudes, the ABC model incorporates Disputation of unproductive philosophies of life in order to explore Effective new beliefs. Whereas rigid beliefs cause self-disturbance, flexible beliefs result in an un-disturbed condition.

It’s worth reiterating that REBT distinguishes between negative and healthy Consequences (e.g., tolerable fear), and negative and unhealthy Consequences (e.g., dread and the evocation of a friend’s personal experience with mental health issues on a globally-reaching podcast).

It’s arguably healthy for Rogan to be fearful that Von may die by suicide. However, there’s a case to be made that it’s unhealthy for Rogan to experience dread in this regard. I presume that Rogan assumed personal ownership of the latter outcome, which is why he’s apologized to Von.

Aside from the ABC model, REBT uses unconditional acceptance (UA) to relieve self-induced suffering. This is accomplished through use of unconditional self-acceptance (USA), unconditional other-acceptance (UOA), and unconditional life-acceptance (ULA).

With my approach to REBT, I incorporate author Stephen Covey’s concepts regarding the circles of control, influence, and concern, as well as an area of no concern. UA maps onto the circle of control (USA), circle of influence (UOA), and circle of concern and area of no concern (ULA).

The circle of control encompasses only oneself, the circle of influence encapsulates elements which may be subject to one’s sway, the circle of concern engrosses most matters one can imagine, and the area of no concern relates to all content which isn’t yet imagined.

Hypothetically, regarding his circle of control and USA, Rogan could admit that the only thing over which he has actual control regarding the decisions of others who attempt and/or complete suicide is his own reaction to these undesirable circumstances. Thus, he controls his own dread.

Theoretically, concerning his circle of influence and UOA, Rogan could recognize that he may be able to influence Von or others not to attempt and/or complete suicide, yet Rogan has limited abilities of persuasion in this regard. If people truly want to kill themselves, then they will.

Notionally, relating to his circle of concern and ULA, Rogan could acknowledge that he has exceedingly limited control and influence over most matters in life. Thus, suicide has occurred long before Rogan was born, it currently occurs, and it will continue occurring after Rogan dies.

Speculatively, pertaining to the area of no concern, one could argue that a significant portion of Rogan’s podcast is dedicated to this realm (e.g., interdimensional aliens). Still, Rogan could contemplate whether or not focus on unfalsifiability is worth what little time one has in life.

Provided you comprehend the lesson on how to transition from negative and unhealthy disturbance (e.g., dread) to negative and healthy distress (e.g., tolerable fear), then I now turn toward a secondary lesson. If you find what I have to say difficult, then you can use REBT.

Objective Reasoning: Truth About the Reality of Suicide

As it regards this blogpost, objective is defined as having verifiable existence in the external world, independently of any opinion or judgment. Likewise, subjective is defined as based on or influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudices.

Similarly, earlier in this post I referenced that “irrational” regards that which is not in accordance with both logic and reason. Conversely, thoughts and beliefs which are rational regard that which is in accord with both logic and reason.

Here, “logic” is the interrelation or sequence of facts or events when seen as inevitable or predictable, and “reason” is a statement offered in explanation or justification. For instance, a modus ponens syllogism uses the following logical form: If p, then q; p; therefore, q.

For example, I invite you to consider a proposition I expressed earlier. If people truly want to kill themselves (p), then they will (q). People truly want to kill themselves (p). Therefore, they will (q).

This proposal adheres to logical form. Furthermore, I maintain that it’s reasonable, because I productively focus on the circles of control, influence, and concern while helpfully practicing USA, UOA, and ULA. Therefore, I maintain that my proposition is rational. It isn’t crazy!

However, plausibly many people will disagree with my perspective and suggest that such an outlook is insane. One comprehensible retort may suggest that I’ve used subjective rather than objective reasoning. For context, one source states:

Objective reasoning is the process of making decisions or forming conclusions based on observable and measurable evidence. This type of reasoning is free from personal biases, emotions, and subjective interpretations. It relies on facts, data, and logical analysis to reach conclusions that can be independently verified by others.

One of the central themes of UA is that each and every person is a fallible human being. We aren’t perfect, nor are we capable of exercising objective reasoning which is free of subjectivity. Even though some may argue otherwise, I maintain that pure objectivity isn’t possible.

Succinctly, one source states of objective reasoning, “There’s a method of reasoning that aims to be objective. But there’s no such thing as a metaphysical entity of ‘objective reasoning.’ That is a myth.” Given this perspective, you can disagree with my proposition on suicide, and call it nutty.

Because I acknowledge that I’m incapable of using completely objective reasoning, I also argue that there’s no evidence I’ve seen that supports the notion of objective rationality. Thus, you may distressingly or disturbingly propose that there ought to be a method of stopping all suicides.

I think that’s bonkers! Still, the difference between what you and I contradictorily propose warrants a perspective on truth about reality. Whereas “truth” is the body of real things, events, and facts, “reality” is something that is neither derivative nor dependent but exists necessarily.

I maintain that there is an objective reality that comprises all of existence. As a flawed individual, I’m incapable of perfectly describing its composition, which is what truth is—a description of reality. Yet, subjective reasoning pollutes this process with prescriptions.

For instance, I maintain that if people truly want to kill themselves, then they will, so non-suicidal individuals preferably shouldn’t force upon suicidal people moral prescriptions which are based on subjective reasoning (e.g., suicide mustn’t ever happen). Perhaps you disagree.

Your disagreement isn’t without some foundation in truth, because — as I’ve outlined herein — “subjective reasoning pollutes” the process of determining truth about reality when “prescriptions” are applied. This is true regarding both of our imperfect perspectives.

Concisely, fallible human beings are incapable of faultlessly objective reasoning. Thus, we are also unable to exercise flawlessly objective rational positions. Ergo, we may continually refine what we believe to be true about reality, though there’s no way we can be perfect in this regard.

Therefore, concerning my subjective reasoning, I speak truth about the reality of suicide – as I see it. If people truly want to kill themselves, then they will. As far as I view this matter (i.e., subjectivity), this is true regarding you, me, Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and virtually everyone else.

Conclusion

I recently listened to an episode of Joe Rogan’s podcast in which he discussed Theo Von’s purported issues with mental health. During his discussion, Rogan admitted to fearing for the life of someone who he appears to consider a valued friend.

Providing justification for the Consequence of his Beliefs about the Action, as herein I hypothesized what scripts Rogan may’ve used, Rogan wound up apologizing to Von for how he reacted when likely self-disturbing. That required personal ownership, which I applaud!

Aside from illustrating the ABC model for how to un-disturb in favor of negative and healthy distress, I also demonstrated how one may use UA in regard to the topic of suicide. This led to elucidation on what constitutes objectivity, subjectivity, truth, and reality.

I’ve concluded that fallible human beings are incapable of exercising completely objective reasoning. Using a subjective proposition about how if people truly want to kill themselves, then they will, I’ve admitted that plausibly many people will disagree with my perspective.

I consider this difference of subjective views understandable, because I imperfectly describe what I believe to be true about reality. Others are welcome to maintain opposing views, as none of us wields impeccable thoughts or beliefs which are objectively reasonable or rational.

Therefore, concerning my outlook on objective reasoning, as it regards truth about the reality of suicide, people may not only disagree, they may unfavorably self-disturb with rigid beliefs about the matter. If who I’ve described regards you, then I helpfully invite you to practice REBT.

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At Hollings Therapy, LLC, serving all of Texas, I aim to treat clients with dignity and respect while offering a multi-lensed approach to the practice of psychotherapy and life coaching. My mission includes: Prioritizing the cognitive and emotive needs of clients, an overall reduction in client suffering, and supporting sustainable growth for the clients I serve. Rather than simply trying to help you to feel better, I want to try to help you get better!

Deric Hollings, LPC, LCSW

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