Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide Audiobook (Free)

From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind, comes the first major publication in a quarter century on suicide, and its own terrible pull in the young specifically. Night Falls Fast is usually tragically timely: suicide is becoming perhaps one of the most common killers of People in america between the age groups of fifteen and forty-five.

An internationally acknowledged authority in depressive illnesses, Dr. Jamison in addition has known suicide firsthand: after many years of fighting manic-depression, she attempted at age group twenty-eight to destroy herself. Weaving together a historical and scientific exploration of the subject with personal essays on person suicides, she brings not only her extraordinary compassion and literary skill but also most of her knowledge and analysis to bear upon this damaging problem. This is a publication that helps us to comprehend the suicidal mind, to identify and arrive to the aid of those at risk, also to comprehend the profound effects on those left behind. It is important reading for parents, teachers, and anyone wanting to understand this tragic epidemic.