Suicide: Who? When? Why?
A must-read: Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide Kay Redfield Jamison, a professor of psychiatry at The Johns Hopkins University, offers a comprehensive account on how to better understand suicide by attempting to explore the minds of who committed it. As a sufferer of bipolar disorder herself, Jamison has several times attempted suicide, thus having an innate experience of how it feels like to become suicidal. Author of highly acclaimed An Unquiet Mind where she depicted the mayhem a manic-depressive struggles with, she studies the concept of suicide through many anecdotal personal stories. Reading these stories may be shocking and even heartbreaking as they suggest that there is no easy way to identify a suicidal mood; a perfectly normal person may commit suicide with no apparent reason; and depression or an inherent disorder may not be something to blame. Additionally, committing suicide may not be an abrupt decision, also do these stories tell. Even a very young kid may end her...