Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, Kay Redfield Jamison

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I bought this book by looking up "Best Books on Suicide" on Amazon. I've read Jamison's other, famous, book on bipolar disorder, An Unquiet Mind, which was a pleasure of silky, elegant, apt writing - and so was this

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[stone_eye_tooth]

Yep, and then we need someone extraordinary to hold us and convince us that circumstances can and do change and, further, that they're willing to put themselves on the line to make that happen. I stand by my assertion that had I not met a person such as this, I would be dead now. In fact I would have been dead for almist 10 years. I would never have driven 'west on sunset to the sea' or done the grand circle, or seen Big Sur or Lake Geneva, fallen in love with a Frenchman ... Or met you :)

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: ) indeed.

[amorettea]

Both of my paternal grandparents committed suicide, although he did because he was a doctor in the 1930s and knew he had cancer. One maternal aunt also killed herself. So, it runs in my family. When I told my doctor that many years ago, he wrote the first prescription for Prozac he had ever written because it was brand new.

I have been there. I know how I'd do it. But I get over it by trying to focus on what would happen to those I leave behind. Between drugs and sheer gritting of teeth, I have gotten through every bout of suicidal ideation, including last winter's.

You want the pain to stop. And the only way you can see to make it stop is to just stop.

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You do know, then.