How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was ..., Susan Rose Blauner
How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was ..., Susan Rose Blauner
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How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me
One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention

Author: Susan Rose Blauner, Bernie S. Siegel, MD

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Unabridged: 9 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/19/2022

Synopsis

"I continued to romanticize my death by suicide: who would find me; what I'd look like. I spent hundreds of hours planning my funeral, imagining the remorse of my family and friends. I wrote good-bye letters, composed wills, and disrupted the lives of everyone close to me. Then reality hit." —Susan Rose Blauner

The statistics on suicide are staggering. The World Health Organization estimates that nearly 800,000 people die by suicide every year, which is one person every forty seconds, and for each completed suicide there may be twenty or more attempts.

In How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me, Susan Blauner is the perfect emissary for a message of hope and a program of action for these millions of people. A survivor of multiple suicide attempts, she explains the complex feelings and fantasies that surround suicidal thoughts. In a direct, nonjudgmental, and loving voice, she offers affirmations and suggestions for those experiencing life-ending thoughts, and for their friends and family.

About Susan Rose Blauner

Susan Rose Blauner, MSW, LCSW, is a writer, motivational speaker, artist, singer, and educator who changes the way people think about suicidal thoughts, suicidal behavior, and mental disease. She is the 2002 recipient of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's Survivor of the Year Award for Distinguished Creativity in Suicide Prevention and transformed eighteen years of suicidal ideation, three suicide gestures, multiple psychiatric hospitalizations, and decades of therapy into the life-saving resource, How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me: One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention. Susan presents motivational keynotes and seminars throughout the United States designed to destigmatize mental illness; enlighten practitioners, educators, first responders and military personnel; and empower individuals and families affected by mental illness and suicide. She has appeared on Good Morning America, American Family, and in the documentary A Secret Best Not Kept. Following a 2008 breast cancer diagnosis, two surgeries, chemotherapy, and radiation, Susan went on to earn a master's degree in social work from Simmons College in 2015, at the age of 50.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melody on March 26, 2015

There are several good suggestions in this book. I believe it will help me. It reminds me of some of the mindfulness exercises I have done in intensive outpatient programs. That being said, this book really gets on my nerves. The first reason is because the author asserts from "evidence" based in va......more

Goodreads review by Ashwise on July 29, 2018

I lost my grandfather to sucide and I work in crisis situations so I thought the book would be helpful. wrong! though I loved the safety plans I hated the patronizing way the writer wrote almost as if she were babying the reader and offering false comfort. There were a few times I found myself quest......more

Goodreads review by aqilahreads on February 24, 2022

it took me MONTHS to finish this book and that says it all :') its triggering at times so i wished it was more of a mental-illness-friendly book rather than something that would stir up lotsa memories here and there - some may even associate with a particular traumatic experience that makes you feel......more

Goodreads review by Alex on March 23, 2023

If you start a paragraph with "Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines life as..." I am already back at the library returning the book. Good intentions, but the execution is flat and unpersuasive, to say the least......more

Goodreads review by Chloé on July 26, 2013

I found this book very helpful. It is weird though that I actually did read it when I was in a stable place after a major period of depression. I actually think that this worked better for me as there is a lot to take in with the book. I think that the title is fantastic because for me that is exactl......more

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