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Night Falls Fast
- Understanding Suicide
- Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen, Kay Redfield Jamison
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Critical listening for parents, educators, and anyone wanting to understand the tragic epidemic of suicide—”a powerful book [that] will change people's lives—and, doubtless, save a few" (Newsday).
The first major book in a quarter century on suicide—and its terrible pull on the young in particular—Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and forty-five.
From the author of the best-selling memoir, An Unquiet Mind—and an internationally acknowledged authority on depression—Dr. Jamison has also known suicide firsthand: after years of struggling with manic-depression, she tried at age twenty-eight to kill herself. Weaving together a historical and scientific exploration of the subject with personal essays on individual suicides, she brings not only her remarkable compassion and literary skill but also all of her knowledge and research to bear on this devastating problem. This is a book that helps us to understand the suicidal mind, to recognize and come to the aid of those at risk, and to comprehend the profound effects on those left behind.
What the critics say
"Jamison writes with authority, clarity and clinical reserve. Powerful as her medicine is, her poetic accounting of this dark death is more affecting still."—Baltimore Sun
"Jamison brings us face to face with the suicidal mind in a manner so intense and penetrating that, paradoxically, the immersion in despair she offers is a source of great pleasure."—The Washington Post Book World
"This powerful book will change people's lives—and, doubtless, save a few."—Newsday
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- camallis
- 2022-10-02
A worldwide wish
I only wish that more doctors considered suicide as sincerely as Ms Jamison. Having lost someone to suicide after a very long battle and multiple pleas for help that were ignored by medical professionals, it would have been a blessing to have not been summarily dismissed after each attempt. But this book did provide amazing insight and understanding. For that it is greatly appreciated. There was great splice in that.
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- Amy
- 2022-11-29
Life changing.
Thank you so much to K R Jamison for her work to normalize, understanding, and stop suicide.
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