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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 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.

Are you having suicidal thoughts and feelings? Perhaps you are convinced that life is not worth living. Your life seems hopeless, like a black hole with all love, hope, and joy sucked out. In CCEFs I Just Want to Die: Replacing Suicidal Thoughts with Hope, David Powlison describes the various reasons you might be feeling hopeless and explains that God is not surprised or put off by your hopeless feelings.

Find out what happens when you take your life. In this book, you will learn about seven compelling stories. Each profile is collected from media interviews.

Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row - a reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in modern times. In the past two decades, deaths of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism have risen dramatically, and now claim hundreds of thousands of American lives each year - and they're still rising. Case and Deaton, known for first sounding the alarm about deaths of despair, explain the overwhelming surge in these deaths and shed light on the social and economic forces that are making life harder for the working class.

"Are you one of us?" a patient once asked Marsha Linehan, the world-renowned psychologist who developed dialectical behavior therapy. "Because if you were, it would give all of us so much hope." Over the years, DBT had saved the lives of countless people fighting depression and suicidal thoughts, but Linehan had never revealed that her pioneering work was inspired by her own desperate struggles as a young woman. Only when she received this question did she finally decide to tell her story.

Dieses Buch ist ein umfassender Begleiter auf dem Weg, Depression zu verstehen und langfristig zu bewältigen. Mit einem ganzheitlichen Ansatz bietet es fundiertes Wissen und praxisnahe Techniken, die dir helfen, Depressionen zu erkennen, zu verstehen und Schritt für Schritt zu überwinden.

El suicidio es un estudio en la sociología moderna que explora las causas sociales detrás del acto de quitarse la vida. Durkheim desafía la noción de que el suicidio es simplemente un problema individual, revelando cómo factores como la integración social y la regulación moral influyen en las tasas de suicidio.

There had been worse times before, moments when life had thrown her curveballs that felt impossible to overcome. Yet, nothing could prepare Teresa for the day she discovers her husband’s lifeless body— a haunting image that sears itself into her memory, forever. In the days that follow, she struggles to comprehend the depths of his pain and the silence that now fills their home. Alone and reeling from disbelief, Teressa must confront the unbearable weight of her grief while facing a future she never envisioned.

“There is no good way to state these facts, which must be acknowledged. My husband and I had two children and lost them both: Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose suicide, and both died not far from home.” There is no good way to say this—because words fall short. It takes only an instant for death to become fact, “a single point in a timeline.” Living now on this single point, Li turns to thinking and reasoning and searching for words that might hold a place for James.

This book is meant to be a starting guide to understanding and managing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a condition that affects millions of people, not just military veterans. Whether caused by combat, abuse, accidents, or other forms of trauma, PTSD can profoundly impact daily life, relationships, and overall well-being. The purpose of this book is to provide practical insights into what PTSD is, how it affects individuals, and the steps one can take toward healing.

Every day millions of people struggle after being blindsided by losing a loved one unexpectedly; especially a loved one that died by their own hand. In this eye-opening book, you'll hear how Chad Taylor and his two little children were suddenly thrust into this growing number of afflicted people. But their story doesn't end there, and yours doesn't have to either!

Wenn es zu viele Betroffene gibt, reicht eine Geschichte nicht aus, um ihnen Gehör zu verschaffen. Zu groß und zu zahlreich sind die Möglichkeiten, die Menschen zu Monstern machen ‒ und andere zu Opfern. Vier Leben, vier Erfahrungen, viermal Dunkelheit. Weil wir viele sind. Dies sind Katjas, Bernds, Juttas und Svens Geschichten. HART. UNGESCHÖNT. SCHONUNGSLOS.

La autora habló con los familiares y amigos de los suicidas, recorrió las mismas calles y visitó cada rincón del pueblo. Esta crónica reconstruye los episodios trágicos de esos años y pinta magníficamente la vida cotidiana de una comunidad alejada de las grandes ciudades.

For twenty years, Jill Bialosky has lived with the grief, guilt, questions, and confusion unleashed her by twenty-one-year-old sister Kim's suicide. Now, in a remarkable work of literary nonfiction, she re-creates with unsparing honesty her sister’s inner life, the events and emotions that led her to take her life on this particular night. In doing so, she opens a window on the nature of suicide itself, our own reactions and responses to it—especially the impact a suicide has on those who remain behind.

The essays of The Loneliest Places began as a chronicle of Rachel Dickinson’s life after her son’s suicide. The pieces became much more. Dickinson writes the unimaginable and terrifying facts of heart-breaking loss. In The Loneliest Places she tells stories from her months on the run, fleeing her grief and herself, as she escapes to Iceland and the Falkland Islands―as far as possible from the memories of her dead son, Jack.

Kay Whiting Harrison shares her personal journey through the twists, turns, triumphs, and tragedies of her life as she secretly struggles with a mental illness. She copes with a severe and terminal disability of one child, a life-threatening illness with another, financial pressures, and other life challenges while trying to keep the demons of depression and anxiety at bay and hidden from the rest of the world. Despite being a competent wife, mother, businesswoman, and community leader, mounting tensions and mental illness eventually led her to try to take her own life.

Para Murthy, a solidão é uma questão universal e afeta não apenas nossa saúde, como nosso desempenho profissional, a maneira como lidamos com a crescente polarização política e até mesmo a forma como nossos filhos vivenciam a experiência escolar. Mas ele também revela a cura, que está ao alcance de todos: basta valorizarmos nosso desejo profundo e inato de estabelecer conexões. Nós evoluímos fazendo parte de uma comunidade, forjando laços duradouros, ajudando uns aos outros e compartilhando experiências de vida.

A Carmen se le derrumba todo su mundo cuando se entera de que su hermano Carlos se ha suicidado. A partir de ahí, tanto ella como el resto de su familia emprenden un camino de aceptación y adaptación a esa nueva realidad, transitando las diferentes fases del duelo. De ese modo, la autora narra sus experiencias y sentimientos ante el acontecimiento traumático con el fin de representar un rayo de esperanza para personas en situación idéntica, al mismo tiempo que reclama mayor intervención, con protocolos sanitarios, por parte de los gobernantes.

Según datos de la OMS, el suicidio es la segunda causa de defunción entre las personas jóvenes, con un total aproximado de 800 000 muertes al año a nivel mundial. Esto lo convierte en uno de los problemas de salud mental más preocupantes del presente, situación que se agrava debido a la creciente desigualdad económica y social, así como a la depresión debida a la pandemia por covid-19.

What is my purpose? Why am I here? Why should I live? At the mercy of depression for years and lacking the answers to these important questions, travel connoisseur Kevin Hodgon tried to take his own life and failed—twice. Perhaps life had more to offer him than he previously thought. In a desperate attempt to rid himself of these dangerous suicidal thoughts, Kevin leaves everything behind to embark on a healing journey through various parts of North and South America.