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2024.
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"A novel about a journalist in pursuit of a story about a child who survived a cult mass suicide, which may not be all that it appeared to be, told in Janice Hallett's signature original and innovative style of emails, messages, news clips, and screenplay excerpts"--
2) 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...
3) 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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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,...
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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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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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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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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....
9) 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...
10) El bullying
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Español
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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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Ten women tell their stories of how failing suicide has led to thriving in life. Stories which are powerful, thought provoking and inspiring, covering subjects such as sex trafficking, domestic abuse, mental abuse, child abuse, drug and alcohol addiction, rape, cancer, poverty, prostitution, body dysmorphia and the pressures of the corporate world.Inside you will read of lead author Debbie Debonaire and her three attempts at suicide, all of which...
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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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Les tendances suicidaires sont une réalité qui peut toucher quiconque, indépendamment de la personnalité ou du statut social. Pour aborder ce sujet sans jugement, Pascal Carausse et Aline Raelisoa présentent une compilation de cas réels de personnes ayant envisagé ou tenté le suicide, avec des résultats variés. Ce livre n'est en aucun cas une glorification du suicide, mais plutt un avertissement contre de tels comportements. Il examine les...
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MANUP by Tough to Talk is a no-nonsense look into the silent war that countless men across the globe are fighting with their mental health. These are their stories in their own words.Society sits back while men are grappling silently with their biological, emotional, psychological, past trauma, current life events and gendered issues. And these men do not get the help they need because to them they do not have a mental health problem, they have financial...
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Workplace burnout is becoming prevalent especially in healthcare-related activities. Doctors, nurses, and first responders, and police are experiencing burnout with a variety of symptoms. Covid19 is a major contributing factor of pressure and stress as hospitals are filling up again from the 2020 fall surge.As pressures rise, temperaments flair. Emotional Charge builds up and is manifesting as physical problems. This ebook describes a technique that...
16) List of Ten
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This harrowing yet hopeful novel shares "an authentic and compassionate look at the ups and downs of teenage life and living with Tourette syndrome" (Kirkus).
For most people, the number ten is just another number. But for sixteen-year-old Troy Hayes, who suffers from Tourette Syndrome and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, it dictates his entire life. He must do everything by its exacting rhythm-even in the face of ridicule and bullying.
Finally...
17) Coping With Grief Of A Loved One After A Suicide: Grieving The Devastation And Loss Of Someone Wh
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Coping With Grief Of A Loved One After A SuicideGrieving The Devastation And Loss Of Someone Who Took Their Own Life. How Long Does The Heartache Last? I am so sorry for your loss. It must be unimaginable and devastating to lose a loved one to suicide.With so many questions left unanswered, how do you move forward from the heartbreak of the whole situation?You feel completely traumatized and paralyzed?This book will give an insight into what to do...
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From debut author Cameron Kelly Rosenblum comes a stunning teen novel that tackles love, grief, and mental health as one girl must process her friend's death and ultimately learn how to stand in her own light. Perfect for fans of All the Bright Places and We Were Liars.
It's the summer before senior year. Reid is in the thick of Scofield High's in-crowd thanks to her best friend, Hattie, who has been her social oxygen since middle school.
But summer...
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From bestselling author and self-help guru Lucinda Bassett, comes an intimate and empowering memoir. A few years ago, Bassett's husband and business partner, David, committed suicide after an agonizing year's struggle with mental illness. Lucinda and her children were devastated. Unbelievably, within just a few months of his death, she lost her brother, and then her mother. And to add to the overwhelming anguish she was already experiencing, Lucinda...
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