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Title: How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me : One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention by Susan Rose Blauner ISBN: 0-06-093621-5 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 08 July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: this book saved my life in a lasting way - NO EXAGGERATION!
Comment: This is gentle, kind, loving, familiar, HONEST - susan has the conversation --- you're having with yourself --- with you. And talks you out of it. And talks you out of discussing it anymore... it may take a while to take, to completely sink in... but this book put the cabash (sp?) on my periodic suicidally depressed times (I voluntarily checked myself into a hospital twice - and the unreimbursed cost was going to be a few 1000 dollars - and I am CHEAP and told myself I could go to PARIS AND ROME on that money --- but knew that I had no more than 3-5 hours to live unless I got myself quickly to a place where I wouldn't be able to end my life. Also, this book just made me feel better somehow: not happy or OK --- but better. REALLY. A great gift to all of us. Thanks a million to the author!
Rating: 5
Summary: A " how to" on pulling away from the abyss...
Comment: This book was given to me by my husband when I was in a psychiatric hospital's program dealing with suicidal ideation related to extreme depression and my diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. He picked it up at our library; I bought it in hardcover when the library copy had to go back.
I opened this book, and started to cry -- This could have been someone who picked up my journals, it so mirrored my FEELINGS, though not my exact situation. I felt an instant rapport with the author and understood her struggles intimately.
There are parts of this book that didn't resonate for me, as I am sure there are for others. But on the whole, this book helped me to re-start the process of being, and building, a strong and resilient me. There's something here for everyone, whether you are struggling or well. I have used it now for nearly 9 months. (And I see a psychiatrist too. Incidentally, he thought it very strong as well!) It is still relevant and helpful though I am happy and well now.
Rating: 5
Summary: A well-examined life
Comment: Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In "How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me," Susan Rose Blauner pursues a courageous and painstaking examination of a life of pain and suffering, discovery and remarkable personal growth. Bearing witness to history, culture, and personal experience is perhaps the most crucial responsibility of being human. With her willingness to disclose the details of her personal journey from despair to hope, Ms. Blauner has borne witness to a very personal struggle in a way that provides guidance to others who suffer similarly. This guide through the minefield of suicidal thoughts and impulses will inevitably save lives.
While the author provides considerable insight regarding the nature and origins of suicidal thoughts, the heart of the guide is Chapter Three, entitiled "Tricks of the Trade." In this chapter, she offers a variety of practical steps that can be taken to overcome suicidal impulses when they occur. While every step may not appeal to everyone, there is enough variety to provide useful strategies for most people who struggle with suicide. Trick #19: Helping Others is particularly pertinent. I would add to this step imagining the possibilities for helping others in the future. Had Susan Blauner envisioned sooner the influence that she would eventually have upon so many lives, her will to live may have grown stronger years earlier. Perhaps the most crucial message of this work, then, is that it is worth going on if only to discover our capacity for bringing light into other lives.
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Title: Choosing to Live: How to Defeat Suicide Through Cognitive Therapy by Thomas E. Ellis, Cory F. Newman ISBN: 1572240563 Publisher: New Harbinger Pubns Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Suicide: The Forever Decision...for Those Thinking About Suicide, and for Those Who Know, Love, or Counsel Them by Paul G. Quinnett ISBN: 0824513525 Publisher: Crossroad/Herder & Herder Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Step Back from the Exit: 45 Reasons to Say No to Suicide by Jillayne Arena ISBN: 0964734001 Publisher: Zebulon Pr Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The Suicidal Mind by Edwin S. Shneidman ISBN: 0195118014 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Night Falls Fast : Understanding Suicide by Kay Redfield Jamison ISBN: 0375701478 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 10 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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