How Not to Kill Yourself, Set Sytes
How Not to Kill Yourself, Set Sytes
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How Not to Kill Yourself
A Survival Guide for Imaginative Pessimists

Author: Set Sytes, Faith G. Harper PhD, Erin Bennett

Narrator: Tim Bruce

Unabridged: 2 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/17/2018

Synopsis

A highly imaginative and relatable guide for anyone who needs the reassurance that suicide is never worth it.Are you inclined to escape the crumminess of everyday life into fantasy worlds? Are you smart and imaginative in a way that isn’t really suited to your surroundings? Are you definitely misunderstood, likely angry, and almost certainly depressed? Set Sytes, hailing from the UK, would prefer you stay alive and sort things out rather than the alternative, thanks. He figures there are better opportunities for you out there and lays it all out in a way that’s compelling, funny, sharp, and useful. This zine turned book (please don’t call it a self-help guide, asks the author) is ultimately about how to be a person in the world. It can be done non-miserably, we promise.

About Set Sytes

Set Sytes was born in the misty, Arthurian woods of England and was raised by bears. He grew up learning how to do and be many things at the same time, including slaying monsters, rescuing damsels in distress, who turned out to be neither in distress nor, in fact, damsels; and commanding great armies, the strategy inevitably being “everybody charge at the enemy.” As the real world struck with a calamitous clang, Set was found wandering the desolate aftermath, completely uncertain about what was now expected of him. He faffed and stumbled around for an embarrassingly long time—sometimes failing quite spectacularly—and then finally turned his hand to the only thing he remembered being any good at as a kid: writing. He was relieved to break the curse of never having finished anything in his life when he finished his first novel, which was okay-ish. Set has since authored many stories of darkness and weirdness and flights of fancy, including the sci-fi–fantasy–western novel WULF, the young adult pirate fantasy India Bones and the Ship of the Dead, the thoroughly twisted dystopian thriller Moral Zero, and the fantasy-horror short story collections Faces in the Dark and Born to be Weird.

About Faith G. Harper PhD

Faith G. Harper is a bad-ass, funny lady with a PhD. She is a licensed professional counselor, board supervisor, certified sexologist, and applied clinical nutritionist with a private practice and a consulting and training business in San Antonio, Texas. She has been an adjunct professor and a TEDx presenter and proudly identifies as a woman of color and uppity, intersectional feminist. She is the author of several highly popular “five-minute therapy” zines on subjects such as anxiety, depression, and grief.

About Erin Bennett

Erin Bennett is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and a stage actress who played Carlie Roberts in the BBC radio drama Torchwood: Submission. She can be heard on several video games. Regional theater appearances include the Intiman, Pasadena Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company, A Noise Within, Laguna Playhouse, and the Getty Villa. She trained at Boston University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

About Tim Bruce

Tim Bruce is an Earphones award-winning actor and audiobook narrator with over twenty-five years of experience.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bogdan on January 31, 2022

It may not be the most accurate medical book that deals with depression and anxiety, but it is probably the most honest one. Because, yes, sometimes the only thing keeping us alive is our favorite TV show or our favorite book series and the curiosity to find out the ending. Yes, sometimes the reason......more

Goodreads review by kyky on December 14, 2022

i am still alive, but not thanks to this book. i just have things to do. it was lowkey funny though.......more

Goodreads review by Yolanda on July 27, 2021

I'm still alive, so I guess it's worth reading.......more

Goodreads review by Sara on January 09, 2018

3.5 Disclaimer: Have never been suicidal, but do have sh#tty days and usually like to read something like this around the New Year. Picked this up at Microcosm Publishing in Portland over the winter break and it was nice to discover a no nonsense, no positive thinking, and more importantly, nerdy pe......more

Goodreads review by Becci on April 16, 2024

This was a refreshing, profanity laden, blunt and unapologetic take on self-help books. I don’t think it’s meant to be life changing or the cure for clinical depression, there’s no secrets or truths that I now know that I didn’t before. However, sometimes it is really validating and comforting to hea......more

Quotes

“The best piece of literature I have ever read about depression…Required reading for those with depression and those who know people with depression.” Nicole Schultz, owner and creative director of Little Shallon

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