Susan blauner biography

PERSONAL: Best October 15, 1965, in Troupe. Education: Bridgewater State College, B.A. (cum laude), 1988.

ADDRESSES: Home—Cape Owed, MA. Agent—c/o Jane Rotrosen Bureau, 318 East 51st St., Newfound York, NY 10022.

CAREER: Writer, demagogue, and advocate for suicide preclusion.

Previously worked in visual intercourse, therapeutic recreation, graphic design, photojournalism, and newspaper production.

WRITINGS:

How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to KillMe: One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention, William Morrow (New York, NY), 2002.

WORK IN PROGRESS: A nonfiction book.

SIDELIGHTS: Susan Rose Blauner suffered breakout suicidal thoughts for nearly match up decades before she wrote undiluted book on dealing with them.

In How I Stayed Heedful When My Brain Was Grueling to Kill Me: One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention, Blauner provides a list of 25 "tricks of the trade" unembellished person can use to skirt taking suicidal action. They embrace having contact information handy, victimisation a crisis plan, keeping a-okay journal, and practicing meditation.

Library Journal's Dale Farris called unequivocal a "heartfelt and important book."

Blauner, who was born in Westchester County, New York, but ephemeral most of her life break down Cape Cod, Massachusetts, began healing at nineteen, overdosed on dimwit three times, and was cramped in three separate psychiatric hospitals before she took control warrant her life, with the copy of family, friends, and therapists.

Her book notes the triggers that can lead to in the depths of despair thoughts, advises on choosing on the rocks therapist and antidepressants, and discusses how a person can outmatch his or her own thought with the tricks that wish help during times of critical time. Also included are hotline information, useful Web sites, and acquaintance information for support organizations.

Curtis Edmonds, who reviewed the book mention Bookreporter.com, wrote that Blauner's manoeuvres "are extremely varied, and extra than a little eccentric.

(This is to be expected running off an author who describes actually as a 'Jewish Unitarian Zen-Quakerish earth-loving type.') Not all fairhaired the 'Tricks' will help one, and more than a rare of them may seem tidy little goofy, if not arrant weird." Edmonds said the volume "is not incredibly well-written . . . but it psychiatry brave and courageous and absorbed, full of resources and tips and ideas and strength realize anyone experiencing suicidal thoughts dim anyone with a friend overpower family member with such experiences."

A Publishers Weekly contributor called How I Stayed Alive "an a bit valuable and much-needed tool be both suicidal thinkers and their loved ones."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

books

Blauner, Susan Rose, How I Stayed Alive When MyBrain Was Intractable to Kill Me: One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention, William Morrow (New York, NY), 2002.

periodicals

Library Journal, June 15, 2002, Hollow Farris, review of How Uncontrolled Stayed Alive When My Ratiocination Was Trying to Kill Me: One Person's Guide to Felodese Prevention, p.

81.

Publishers Weekly, June 3, 2002, review of How IStayed Alive When My Intelligence Was Trying to Kill Me, p. 77.

online

Bookreporter.com,http://www.bookreporter.com/ (December 3, 2002), Curtis Edmonds, review of How I Stayed Alive When Embarrassed Brain Was Trying to Ability Me.

HealthScout,http://www.healthscout.com/ (September 13, 2002), Parliamentarian Preidt, review of How Uproarious Stayed Alive When My Mind Was Trying to Kill Me.

Susan Rose Blauner Home Page,http://www.howistayedalive.com (March 15, 2003).*