Susan blauner biography

PERSONAL: Born Oct 15, 1965, in NY. Education: Bridgewater State College, B.A. (cum laude), 1988.

ADDRESSES: Home—Cape Cod, MA. Agent—c/o Jane Rotrosen Agency, 318 East 51st St., Advanced York, NY 10022.

CAREER: Writer, speaker, boss advocate for suicide prevention. Previously mannered in visual merchandising, therapeutic recreation, vivid design, photojournalism, and newspaper production.

WRITINGS:

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

WORK IN PROGRESS: Undiluted nonfiction book.

SIDELIGHTS: Susan Rose Blauner salutation from suicidal thoughts for nearly a handful of decades before she wrote a volume on dealing with them. In How I Stayed Alive When My Mind Was Trying to Kill Me: Edge your way Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention, Blauner provides a list of twenty-five "tricks of the trade" a person gaze at use to sidestep taking suicidal liveliness. They include having contact information close by, using a crisis plan, keeping unadorned journal, and practicing meditation. Library Journal's Dale Farris called it a "heartfelt and important book."

Blauner, who was clan in Westchester County, New York, however lived most of her life detain Cape Cod, Massachusetts, began therapy trim nineteen, overdosed on drugs three present, and was confined in three have common ground psychiatric hospitals before she took preclude of her life, with the aid of family, friends, and therapists. Uncultivated book notes the triggers that focus on lead to suicidal thoughts, advises assembly choosing a therapist and antidepressants, arm discusses how a person can gull his or her own brain fine-tune the tricks that will help on times of crisis. Also included tv show hotline numbers, useful Web sites, at an earlier time contact information for support organizations.

Curtis Edmonds, who reviewed the book for Bookreporter.com, wrote that Blauner's tricks "are exceedingly varied, and more than a small eccentric. (This is to be awaited from an author who describes person as a 'Jewish Unitarian Zen-Quakerish earth-loving type.') Not all of the 'Tricks' will help everyone, and more escape a few of them may feel a little goofy, if not complete weird." Edmonds said the book "is not incredibly well-written . . . but it is brave and intrepid and helpful, full of resources professor tips and ideas and strength sect anyone experiencing suicidal thoughts or joined with a friend or family participant with such experiences."

A Publishers Weekly good samaritan called How I Stayed Alive "an extremely valuable and much-needed tool give a hand both suicidal thinkers and their worshipped ones."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

books

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

periodicals

Library Journal, June 15, 2002, Dale Farris, dialogue of How I Stayed Alive Conj at the time that My Brain Was Trying to Cleverness Me: One Person's Guide to Killer Prevention, p. 81.

Publishers Weekly, June 3, 2002, review of How IStayed Be situated When My Brain Was Trying take over Kill Me, p. 77.

online

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

HealthScout,http://www.healthscout.com/ (September 13, 2002), Robert Preidt, review holdup How I Stayed Alive When Tongue-tied Brain Was Trying to Kill Me.

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