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Suicide books

Below are the best books we could find on Suicide.

If you are having suicidal thoughts, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255.

Suicidal thoughts can arise for a variety of reasons. They can come out of a sense of overwhelm that life is too much or won’t ever change. Sometimes they come from feeling that whatever wounds you are experiencing can’t be healed or fixed. They can come from a feeling that life is meaningless for you, or from thinking that you don’t deserve to be alive. Many people have these thoughts at some point in their lives, and some struggle with them over long periods of time. These thoughts can be incredibly scary and isolating, bringing about even more feelings of shame and isolation. However, speaking to others about these feelings can be incredibly helpful.

Please remember: thoughts and feelings are not facts, and they alone cannot harm you. Know that you are not alone and help is available.

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Bruised And Wounded: Struggling To Understand Suicide

When someone is stricken with cancer, one of three things can happen: Doctors treat the disease and cure it; professionals can’t cure the disease but can control it so that the person suffering can live with the disease for the rest of his or her life; or the cancer can be of a kind that cannot...

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Dying: A Memoir

Written in the space of a few weeks, in a tremendous creative surge, this powerful and beautiful memoir is a clear-eyed account of what dying teaches: Taylor describes the tangle of her feelings, remembers the lives and deaths of her parents, and examines why she would like to be able to choose the...

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The Myth of Sisyphus

One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus—featured here in a stand-alone edition—is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought.

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Wait: A Love Letter to Those in Despair

Pause, find connection, and choose peace rather than harm when you feel overwhelmed in the crashing ocean of life. You are the calm of the ocean, not the pounding wave.

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What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars

From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wood, a battlefield view of moral injury, the signature wound of America's 21st century wars. By grieving alongside Wood, the reader is able to start on a journey of understanding, finding meaning and healing.

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Remember This When You’re Sad: A Book for Mad, Sad and Glad Days

Maggy Van Eijk knows where the best place to cry in public is: the top deck of a bus, right at the front. She also knows that eating super salty liquorice or swimming in an icy cold pond are things that make you feel alive but aren’t bad for you. These are the things to remember when you’re sad.

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What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

The heartbreaking story of college athlete Madison Holleran, whose life and death by suicide reveal the struggle of young people suffering from mental illness today in this #1 New York Times Sports and Fitness bestseller.

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For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home

In 1974, playwright Ntozake Shange published For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf. The book would go on to inspire legions of women for decades and would later become the subject and title of a hugely popular movie in the fall of 2010.

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Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir

In this remarkable and inspiring memoir, Linehan describes how, when she was eighteen years old, she began an abrupt downward spiral from popular teenager to suicidal young woman.

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The Savage God

"Suicide," writes the notes English poet and critic A. Alvarez, "has permeated Western culture like a dye that cannot be washed out.

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