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Lark experienced the devastating loss of her 19-year-old son to suicide. Having already lost her father to suicide five years earlier, this second death hit hard. All expectations for the future were erased. Everything became difficult. Even breathing felt like a conscious decision.

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.

Read by the author. Find hope and healing so you can fall in love with life again. Speaker and author Kayla Stoecklein delivers an inspiring message of how she came face-to-face with crushing personal loss and discovered how to rebuild a beautiful life. In the midst of hardship and loss, what...

In 2009, Juliet Patterson was recovering from a serious car accident when she learned her father had died by suicide. His death was part of a disturbing pattern in her family. Her father’s father had taken his own life; so had her mother’s. Over the weeks and months that followed, grieving and in physical pain, Patterson kept returning to one question: Why? Why had her family lost so many men, so many fathers, and what lay beneath the silence that had taken hold?

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.

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.

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.

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.

An examination of how suicide prevention efforts largely fail due to the mistaken assumption that greater mental health awareness is the key to saving lives. 

This book is a searingly honest personal story of suicide. As Rita Wright navigates her way through the loss of her daughter, Anna Wright, she demonstrates how anxiety, panic, and depression do not have to end in death. This is a personal and professional insight into why some people can manage their emotions, whereas others, with an inbuilt fragility, melancholia, and what she refers to as a genetic "naked nerve", seek relief in death. Under the Fig Tree is a dramatic true-life, 21st-century story of one girl whose feelings and troubles are replicated worldwide.

Fifteen years ago, Richard Boothby received a fateful call from his ex-wife that their 23-year-old son, Oliver, was dead. Although he had been dreading this news, given Oliver’s prolonged struggle with drug dependency, nothing could have prepared him for the devastating shock. He became obsessed with uncovering the truth of why Oliver shot himself—had he been self-medicating an undiagnosed mental illness?—and what they could have done to prevent it. In an attempt to stem the pain, Boothby turned to psychoanalysis. 

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. 

Marise was nine when she first realised there was trouble, 14 when her dad tried to end it all, and 23 when he finally succeeded. In a turmoil of conflicting emotions, Marise runs - from Dublin to Amsterdam to Los Angeles, leaving a trail of sex and self-destruction in her wake. Until finally, she finds herself facing what she's become in a California psych ward, a girl imploding through trying to make sense of her father's suicide.

A question plagued Dwayne's very mind as he went from living his dreams of being a professional athlete, to fighting against the thoughts of death, homelessness, and a social disparity stemming from a different cultural upbringing in a cold and unknown foreign country. Follow this journey filled with joy, laughter, sadness and the thoughts that no man ever wants to say out loud as he sheds a light on the stigma of males with depression and the fight to still have a normal life.

The Silence Between Us is a raw and original double memoir tracing a mother and daughter as they try to understand and rebuild their relationship after the daughter's suicide attempt. Because Oceane had just turned eighteen when she attempts to end her life, the hospital has to respect her...

If you’re looking for a pleasant listen with cotton candy and sugar coatings and $--t, this is not for you. This is a raw listen that will strike some chords, especially if you are aware of someone in your life that is contemplating suicide. This is not the audiobook for you if you are looking for someone who is going to tell you it’s not your fault and make you feel better about yourself. This is the audiobook that’s going to hold you (all of you) accountable for helping out everyone everywhere because we are all connected.

Still the Night Call is about Calem Dewayne Honeycutt, a 32-year-old Missouri dairy farmer of few words. But just because he's quiet doesn't mean he's simple. In fact, Calem's internal voice eloquently leads us through his wondrous yet tortured past, his fears for the future of his beleaguered rural world, and his carefully laid plans to remedy the vicious Night Call that haunts his present. All he has to do is get through one last day on the farm, then he can free himself of being a straight, white, middle-aged man with nothing in his possession but a gun and a prayer.

When It Is Darkest draws on Rory O'Connor's years of experience in suicide prevention, mental health and psychology and takes a comprehensive look into the reasons behind suicide and how to support someone who is suicidal themselves. Suicide is baffling and devastating in equal measures, and it can affect any one of us - one person dies by suicide every 40 seconds. Yet despite the scale of the devastation, for family members and friends, suicide is still poorly understood.

A teenage girl with a good family and a seemingly easy life struggles with a darkness whenever no one is looking. She desperately tries to hold herself together, convinced she just needs to try harder and pretend she’s okay to avoid becoming a burden to those around her. She doesn’t understand why she can’t just be stronger. As forgotten childhood memories keep trying to push to the surface, she loses more and more control.