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Title: Night Falls Fast : Understanding Suicide by Kay Redfield Jamison ISBN: 0-375-70147-8 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 10 October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (49 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent book -- Esp if you are troubled with suicide
Comment: I found this book while reading Solomon's "Noonday Demon." Both books are superb, with this book having more of a specifc focus on suicide.
"Noonday Demon" expressly addresses depression, and suicide in that context. This book is broader, and is a very careful, and helpful discussion of the factors that bring a person to suicide. Ms. Jamison does a beautiful job of not only laying out the statistics and studies of suicide, but also threading in the story of her own depression, her own suicide attempt.
If you are reading this review, or reading about this book--then you need to get it. You need some help, and this book will give it to you.
In addition to this book, I also recommend Alvarez's "The Savage God: A study of suicide."
Rating: 5
Summary: The Most Complete Book I've Ever Read On Suicide
Comment: Night Falls Fast is impossible to fairly review with the 1000 word limit here on Amazon.com. With this limitation though, I'll try and sum up the understanding one gains in reading this disturbing book.
Kay Redfield's thesis is depressingly convincing and accurate: "The causes of suicide lie, for the most part, in an individual's predisposing temperament and genetic vulnerabilities; in severe psychiatric illness; and in acute psychological stress."
As sad as her statement is, Kay backs up this notion with personal experience as a bipolar patient, suicide survivor, and psychiatry professor. Not to mention 95 pages of research notes taking up almost a third of the book.
She begins with endless and boring statistics regarding suicide; albeit objective, enlightening, and saddening. But the book soon picks up in intensity with the tragic suicide story of Drew Sopirak and his dashed Air Force dreams, thanks to manic depression. For history buffs, an objective essay on the controversial death of Meriwether Lewis is offered as well. In addition to other tragic narratives, Redfield explains the science behind suicide. She delves deeply into the neurotransmitter serotonin, the drugs that have been developed to help regulate mood - especially Lithium, and the genetic factors that often lead to these nasty mood disorders.
Finally, she writes on a more hopeful theme: prevention. Her opinions on prevention are depressing, given the uncontrollable variables that cause suicide. Despite this, she still conveys the possibility that many lives can be saved. In addition to the usefulness of psychiatric drugs, she persuasively writes of the need for a combo of medicine and psychotherapy for the patient (rather than just one or the other), family awareness and cooperation, as well as a more open-minded society regarding mental illness.
The final chapter is dedicated to those left behind. With insight from her own experience, poetry, and personal narratives, she portrays the anguish, questions, and shame those left behind are forced to deal with.
Like most people, I always considered the act of suicide to be the result of extreme personal circumstances: a lifetime of rejection, endless professional failure, years of horrific abuse, etc. But Kay Redfield shatters that myth, proving that the majority of life's survivors do not commit suicide, while very successful people may commit suicide in an instant - thanks to unfortunate heredity, mental illness, and drug abuse. With these three "hits" in place, without help on many levels - medical, psychological, and social - suicide is highly likely.
Kay Redfield Jamison is a courageous leader in the field of mental health. She lifts the ignorance, shame, and silence surrounding suicide. And she writes to the public in a chillingly honest, direct, and compassionate manner.
Read this book today - and get the real truth.
Rating: 5
Summary: Night Falls Fast
Comment: Night Falls Fast was a very helpful book for me. It included stories of other people along with her own story and many helpful statistics/facts. As a person who has personally dealt with suicide before, I enjoyed this book. It helped me to deal with some personal issues and understand better what I was going through and what I could about it. I also learned that I had to do something about it, or I was going to end up dead more likely than not. I would recommend this book to anyone who has felt suicidal or knows/thinks they know, anyone that is.
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Title: An Unquiet Mind : A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison ISBN: 0679763309 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: TOUCHED WITH FIRE: Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison ISBN: 068483183X Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 18 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: No Time to Say Goodbye : Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved One by Carla Fine ISBN: 0385485514 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 09 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Darkness Visible : A Memoir of Madness by William Styron ISBN: 0679736395 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 08 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Suicidal Mind by Edwin S. Shneidman ISBN: 0195118014 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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