Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

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Author: Kay Redfield Jamison
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
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Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.1 x 1

ISBN: 0375701478
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.85844500973
EAN: 9780375701474
ASIN: 0375701478

Publication Date: October 10, 2000
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Helpful January 22, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

I am currently a student of psychology. This book gave a very real insight to suicide. Helpful for me when I begin to see patients.

5 out of 5 stars

Great Contribution August 31, 2006
7 out of 9 found this review helpful

Dr. Key Redfield Jamison brings forth a valuable insight into the mind of suicide. She writes with clarity and great commend on the issue of suicide and its complexity. She shares her personal challenges with a heart-felt authenticity. This book is a great contribution to those who contemplate suicide as well as for those who have touch by it. In her last chapter, "A half-Stitched Scar," she addresses those that are left behind, "...Who had to spend their lives with its (suicide) reality...and asked themselves over and over again...why?" This hit home for me, as I was dealing with my own personal secret: my husband's suicide thirty-five years ago.Since then,I was writing and rewriting my book Beautiful in Black that was finally released last month. Writing this book helped me deal with my past and inspired me to live life to the fullest. My hope is that my personal story will help others with their future. I dedicated my book to those who have lost a loved one to suicide and remained silent!

5 out of 5 stars

A topic not to be avoided August 22, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful

An astounding number of people in this country suffer from mental illnesses, and while depression is often a topic of discussion, the outcome of severe depression--suicide--usually goes unmentioned. This despite it being the cause of so many deaths among young people. Kudos to Jamison for turning the spotlight on sudicide and looking at it from many angles--its epidemics, history, victims, root causes, and attempts at prevention. This is an eye-opening, informative, and sometimes shocking examination of an all-too-common occurrence which we should try to prevent as much as we try to prevent heart disease or stroke. I seriously doubt that the book itself would prompt someone to go hang themselves, unless their mind is already made up.

5 out of 5 stars

A real eye opener and a bit shocking. July 28, 2006
12 out of 12 found this review helpful

I doubt if anyone would choose this book if indeed they were not touched in some way by the suicide of a loved one or by the anticipation of suicide to take their own lives. Much like a new-found disease, those who are touched or affected by suicide seek out information to try and understand the hows and whys because it is felt that there is nobody out there who can relate or understand the pain or agony that is suffered by and as a result of suicide. This book helps a bit by sharing the pain and bringing it out a bit and providing small pathways to understanding. At the same time, it can be like ice-cold water shocking the system and it can be overwhelming. Those who are touched are touched forever - it will never leave. We know this and so we seek to understand more and more about something that cannot be talked about openly.

5 out of 5 stars

Misery Should Not Always Have Company July 13, 2006
13 out of 13 found this review helpful

I am a big fan of Dr. Jamison's other works, and Night Falls Fast was not a disappointment. She brings her usual mix of clinical accuracy and human empathy to this book, and I can't imagine any reader not having at least one moment of deep self reflection as a result. Of course she's also devilishly funny at times.br /br /She clearly describes the magnitude of the problem, and I spent much of the book thinking to myself that the saddest aspect of these diseases is how alone and isolated the sufferers can feel, despite being literally surrounded by people whose lives have been touched by depression, bi-polar disease, alcoholism, and even suicide. On the other hand, I found myself heartened by her descriptions of the growing awareness movements which may not only reduce the incidence of suicide, but improve the quality of life for sufferers of depressive illnesses.br /br /One note of safety: I often think that once a person has seriously contemplated suicide, the idea never completely leaves, which means there is a certain ease of empathy. I worry that someone who was thinking about suicide, or has been suicidal in the past and is having a tough time might find the book triggering.

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