How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me: One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention“Sue Blauner’s you-are-there account . . . offers insight and understanding to anyone who has been touched by suicide.”—Joan Anderson, author of A Year by the Sea 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. |
Contents
THREE TRICKS OF THE TRADE | 4 |
TRICK 1 Asking for Help | 59 |
TRICK 2 Emergency Contacts | 64 |
TRICK 3 A Crisis Plan | 69 |
TRICK 4 Feelings | 82 |
Identifying Feelings | 83 |
Feelings Chart | 84 |
Feelings Galore List | 86 |
Hungry | 120 |
Angry | 126 |
Lonely | 129 |
Tired | 133 |
TRICK 10 Keeping a Journal | 137 |
TRICK 11 Tasks and ActivitiesHealthy Diversions | 141 |
TRICK 12 The Telephone Lifeline and Phone Lists | 143 |
TRICK 13 Contracts for Safety | 145 |
Tracing Feelings Back | 89 |
Stating a Feeling | 93 |
TRICK 5 Feelings Versus Facts | 94 |
TRICK 6 The Brady Bunch Syndrome | 97 |
TRICK 7 Spirituality Nature Meditation | 99 |
Nature | 107 |
Meditation | 113 |
TRICK 8 Acting As If | 118 |
TRICK 9 HALT | 119 |
TRICK 14 Brain Food | 149 |
TRICK 15 Therapy | 153 |
TRICK 16 Vitamin P | 161 |
FOUR | 201 |
FIVE | 217 |
SEVEN | 271 |
Organizations in Canada | 292 |
NOTES | 301 |
Other editions - View all
How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me: One Person's Guide ... Susan Rose Blauner No preview available - 2003 |
How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me: One Person's Guide ... Susan Rose Blauner No preview available - 2002 |
Common terms and phrases
affirmation afraid Al-Anon anger angry antidepressants ask for help Befrienders International behavior believe borderline personality disorder Brady Bunch brain Center cide color comfort connection Covenant House crisis hotline Crisis Plan David Wilcox death deep breaths depression disorder E. B. White emotional exercise exhale experience fear feelings and thoughts Feelings Versus Facts felt focus give Grim Reaper hear hospital journal keep Kids Help Phone kill listen lives look meditation mental health mind minutes neuron never okay outthink overdose pain person Prozac psych ward reality relationship remember sleep someone spiritual stay stress suicidal thinker suicidal thoughts suicide gesture suicide prevention Suicidology support groups Susan Sylvia talk tell therapist therapy thing tion Trick trigger Twelve Step walk what's words write
Popular passages
Page ix - Then a woman said, Speak to us of Joy and Sorrow, And he answered: Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
Page 285 - Mentally 111 (NAMI) is a nonprofit, grassroots, self-help, support, and advocacy organization of consumers, families, and friends of people with severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anxiety disorders.
Page 169 - There's nothing constant in the universe, All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born Bears in its womb the seeds of change.
Page 201 - I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
Page 231 - More teenagers and young adults die from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza, and chronic lung disease combined...
Page 145 - I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing / Agatha Christi - Pay compliments as often as possible, it will make both of you.
Page 253 - The only sense that is common, in the long run, is the sense of change — and we all instinctively avoid it, and object to the passage of time, and would rather have none of it.
Page 82 - And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
References to this book
Eight Stories Up: An Adolescent Chooses Hope over Suicide DeQuincy Lezine,David Brent Limited preview - 2008 |
The Parenting Skills Treatment Planner Sarah Edison Knapp,David J. Berghuis No preview available - 2004 |