How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me: One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention
by Susan Rose Blauner
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"I continued to romanticize my death by suicide: who would find me, what I'd look like. I spent hundreds of hours planning my funeral, imagining the remorse of my family and friends. I wrote good-bye letters, composed wills, and disrupted the lives of everyone close to me. Then reality hit." - Susan Rose Blauner The statistics on suicide are staggering. The World Health Organization estimates that nearly 800,000 people die by suicide every year, which is one person every forty seconds, and show more for each completed suicide there may be twenty or more attempts. In How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me, Susan Blauner is the perfect emissary for a message of hope and a program of action for these millions of people. A survivor of multiple suicide attempts, she explains the complex feelings and fantasies that surround suicidal thoughts. In a direct, nonjudgmental, and loving voice, she offers affirmations and suggestions for those experiencing life-ending thoughts, and for their friends and family. show lessTags
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An international epidemic, suicide has touched the lives of nearly half of all Americans, yet is rarely talked about openly. In this timely and important book, Susan Blauner breaks the silence to offer guidance and hope for those contemplating ending their lives -- and for their loved ones. A survivor of multiple suicide attempts, Blauner eloquently describes the feelings and fantasies surrounding suicide. In a direct, nonjudgmental, and loving voice, she offers affirmations and suggestions for those experiencing life-ending thoughts, and for their friends and family. Here is an essential resource destined to be the classic guide on the subject.
I got approximately 5 pages into this book when I realized that the author has no idea what depression is, and got tired of being patronizingly called a "child of God."
If you are clinically depressed and/or an atheist, probably skip this one.
If you are clinically depressed and/or an atheist, probably skip this one.
My therapist, family, friends and this book helped save my life.
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Susan Rose Blauner, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., is a writer, motivational speaker, artist, singer, and educator who changes the way people think about suicidal thoughts, suicidal behavior, and mental disease. She is the 2002 recipient of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's Survivor of the Year Award for Distinguished Creativity in Suicide show more Prevention, and she transformed eighteen years of suicidal ideation, multiple psychiatric hospitalizations, and decades of therapy into the lifesaving resource, How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me: One Persons Guide to Suicide Prevention. Susan presents motivational keynotes and seminars throughout the United States designed to destigmatize mental illness; enlighten practitioners, educators, first responders, and military personnel; and empower individuals and families affected by mental illness and suicide. She has appeared on Good Morning America, American Family, and in the documentary A Secret Best Not Kept. Following a 2008 breast cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment, Susan went on to earn a master's degree in social work from Simmons College in 2015, at the age of fifty. She now lives in New England with her dog, Fiona, and continues to find ways to enhance her enjoyment of life. show less
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- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
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- 362.28 — Society, Government, and Culture Social problems and social services Social Welfare Mental illness Suicide
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- RC569 .B585 — Medicine Internal medicine Internal medicine Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry Psychiatry Psychopathology Personality disorders. Behavior problems
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