Posted by ksvt on January 7, 2001, at 10:02:42
In reply to night falls fast, posted by julesvox on January 6, 2001, at 16:03:17
> has anyone read her new(ish) book on suicide, Night Falls Fast (1999)? i just bought it but have been nervous to read it, maybe because i've been doing well and am a little afraid. just wondering if anyone would recommend it.
I didn't read it for a long time for precisely the reason you give, I was afraid to do anything that would make me think about suicide more than I already do. Recently, I had a spare hour to kill while waiting to pick a kid up at a sports practice and I wandered into a local library and spent the hour skimming through this book. I'm in a pretty down period now and while i didn't read enough to gain the comfort or reassurance that mars referred to, it certainly didn't have the opposite effect either. The book in some places is very factual, and in some ways it was good for me to see it treated in an unemotional way. However, Dr. Jamison is also very empathetic, so there is emotion that flows through it also. Thisis a book about suicide so alot of the emotion comes from the perspective of the families. Lately it's been too easy for me to screen out thoughts of my own family when I do think about suicide, so it was good I think for me to confront that perspective as well. I can't address your situation julesvox, and I only had time to skim the book, but it didn't throw me off center the way I feared it would. ksvt
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