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The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a national network of local crisis centers that provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
1-800-273-8255
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In every age of the world and in the history of almost every country, we find instances, more or less numerous, of men and women who, preferring the dim uncertainty of the future to the painful realities of the present, have sought relief from all their troubles by suddenly terminating their own existence. Misery and pain have been the lot of the human race ever since the dawn of history, and these causes have from the earliest times induced persons...
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"There Are No Two Marrows" explores, with great humour, a real modern-day dilemma. Archie, a somewhat eccentric retired coal miner with traditional northern passions and pastimes, informs his family, out of the blue, that he intends to take his own life and wants their help in celebrating it. The story traces his reasons, the impact of his decision on his dysfunctional family life, the reaction of the community and the realisation that the best-laid...
3) Attempt
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Attempt details the true story of a broken home and mental illness that led to a suicide attempt. After certain providential interventions, as detailed in the book, it becomes clear that God was still being gracious and merciful. The inspirational account details true events as they happened during a psychological crisis. It brings awareness to major depressive disorder (MDD) while giving definitions and actual examples of mental illness. This disorder...
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Desde reconocer las señ ales de alarma, entender las motivaciones, distinguir los posibles trastornos que envuelven el suicidio, hasta dar herramientas para prevenirlo, Pensamiento suicida explica los diversos senderos que puede recorrer esta problemá tica. Con escalas y cuestionarios para detectar ideas suicidas y modelos breves para atender emergencias psicoló gicas, está guí a es un texto...
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Avery Keene thrillers volume 2
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"Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling a conspiracy that took down the President of the United States. But as the sparks of impeachment hearings and political skirmishes swirl around her, Avery is approached at a legal conference by Preston Davies, an unassuming young man and fellow law clerk to a federal judge in Idaho. Davies believes his boss, Judge Francesca Whitner, was being blackmailed in the days before...
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Suicide is a sensitive subject. This book is a companion book to the "Happiness Is No Charge" podcast on the emotions of suicide. This book teaches the technique discussed in that podcast, which the author has used to stop suicidal episodes. Despondency as an emotion and a depressed state can be helped and stopped with the technique in this book.Thoughts and imagining suicide have been found to stop when the emotion behind them is stopped. A person...
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Here in the United States, suicide claims the lives of more than ten thousand people every year, but behind this number were individual lives, people with a story. No story is ever the same. The reasons and circumstances why someone chooses suicide areat times left for the grieving survivors and communities to wonder and try to interpet, "Why?" In 1986 I survived a near fatal suicide attempt. I was sixteen and I was never the same after this attempt....
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This is a book of suicide prevention poems by Walter the Educator™. Creating a poetry book that encourages a person not to commit suicide serves as a powerful tool to provide hope, solace, and support to individuals who may be struggling with thoughts of self-harm. Poetry has the ability to convey complex emotions, offer understanding, and ignite a sense of connection with others. By exploring themes of resilience, self-love, and the beauty of life,...
9) The Mental Health Workbook: A Practical Guide to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), DBT & ACT fo
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Discover How You Can Overcome Your Mental Illnesses Naturally, Without The Need For Pills Or Pharmaceutical Drugs! Do you suffer from mental health issues?Do you want a holistic & natural blueprint to overcome your mental health struggles?Do you want a practical guide to becoming the happiest, healthiest version of yourself?Since you're reading this, I'm guessing you answered yes to one or more of those questions, or someone you love & care for profoundly...
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"After surviving a suicide attempt, Addison returns to school where her life intersects with four other students, each of whom are also struggling with their own personal struggles"--
Addison's therapist recommended she keep a journal to help her understand her feelings of stress and sadness. She really needs it today: her first day back to school, several weeks after she survived her suicide attempt. Booker is anxious about seeing Addison: they...
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In Schizophrenia and Suicide: Finding Hope, Meaning, and Direction, the author shares how, as a person with schizophrenia, the thought of suicide, for her, and also for others with this disease, can be a constant threat to their well-being. In this book she explores the topic of survival for people who have a mental illness, for whom self-destruction through suicide is all too common in the age of medicines, psychotherapies, and peer counselling....
12) Suicide
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Grim statistics reveal the increase in suicide for all age groups, including teens. Trusted information on the role of depression, other mental health diagnoses, and substance abuse tell the stories behind some suicides. Divorce, child abuse, and other family problems are other risk factors. Dealing with suicidal thoughts, helping suicidal friends and family, and recovering from the suicide of a loved one are covered. This easy-to-understand guide...
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In "Thoughts of Suicide," delve into Calvin Ockletree's soul-stirring collection of poems, birthed from two harrowing stays in mental institutions. Unveil the raw emotions, the depths of despair, and the glimmers of hope, as his verses paint a poignant portrait of the human psyche's struggles. This poetic journey traverses the darkness, leading to a profound understanding of resilience, redemption, and the power of self-expression.
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Sixteen-year-old Mehreen is overwhelmed by her anxiety and depression, and she doesn't believe anyone in her life will understand if she tries to talk about it. She's been thinking about suicide for a while when she discovers a website called MementoMori.com. The site matches people with partners and assigns them a date on which to end their lives, together. Mehreen is partnered with Cara and Olivia, strangers dealing with their own struggles.
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15) The Tyrant
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A haunting work, reminiscent of Albert Camus, that portrays with exquisite psychological detail the emotional crisis in the life of Jean Calmet, a young Swiss schoolteacher. As we watch the father's cremation in the opening chapter, we sense that, even though his father's body has been reduced to ashes, his spirit survives to haunt Jean. His father's prodigious vitality and virility had crushed his family and ruined his son's childhood. Even after...
16) El bullying
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Enséñeles a hablar con alguien Sin embargo, los padres deben tomar la iniciativa de explicarles a sus hijos lo destructivo que puede ser este comportamiento y hacer que siempre sepan si son víctimas de un incidente de intimidación. Sin embargo, desde el punto de vista de la víctima, es más fácil decirlo que hacerlo, y estos sucesos casi siempre pasan desapercibidos hasta que sucede algo devastador que saca a la luz el incidente. Incluso entonces,...
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HELP, HOPE, AND HEALING
An up-close look at Suicide Prevention and Grief in one best-selling book. Why? They relate more than you realize. Considering how loved ones would grieve might be what keeps someone here. Likewise, grief can become so intense that prevention tools are needed to keep safe those left behind.
Pacha, an attorney with a degree and post graduate studies in psychology, public speaks about prevention and grief through her nonprofit,...
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This book is based on, an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and poet, author and historian commentator Jennifer Michael Hecht. After intriguing details about how she combines writing poetry, doing scholarly history and public writing, this wide-ranging conversation movingly embellishes upon Jennifer Michael Hecht's book Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It.
This carefully-edited book includes an introduction,...Or...
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That Man in the Gold Lamé Suit offers a fresh, original, and dynamic examination of Phil Ochs, the often overlooked topical folk singer of the 1960s who wrote the soundtrack to that era's antiwar movement and so much more.
That Man in the Gold Lamé Suit explores who Phil Ochs was as he saw and understood himself to be; how he wanted to see himself; and how he wanted to be seen by others. In presenting this exploration of Phil Ochs, author Jim Bowers...
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A startling look at the deepest, darkest secrets that terrorists pray you'll never know.
For decades, experts from the most powerful governments and prestigious universities around the world have told us that suicide bombers are psychologically normal men and women driven by a single-minded purpose: self-sacrifice. As it turns out, this claim originated with the terrorist leaders themselves, who insisted that they would never recruit mentally unstable...