Her memoir An Unquiet Mind is great. Aside from that, perhaps Darkness Visible by William Styron? Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig could fit as well.
Past-Wrangler9513 on
The Bell Jar..though I don’t know if you can say Plath wrote it for suicidal people
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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plathe
Qitoolie on
Every Cradle is a Grave – Sarah Perry
History of Bestiality trilogy – Jens Bjørneboe
On the Heights of Despair – Cioran
Any poem collection by Anne Sexton
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“The Inevitable: dispatches on the right to die.” Not emotional, not academic – just stories of people deciding whether to end their own lives.
“In Love,” by Amy Bloom, about her husband.
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I believe Matt Haig writes about living with depression with an ultimately hopeful tone.
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I found History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life by Jill Bialosky to be very moving as it tried to inhabit the complicated emotions of a suicidal person, although it’s about the suicide of the author’s sister.
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Her memoir An Unquiet Mind is great. Aside from that, perhaps Darkness Visible by William Styron? Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig could fit as well.
The Bell Jar..though I don’t know if you can say Plath wrote it for suicidal people
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plathe
Every Cradle is a Grave – Sarah Perry
History of Bestiality trilogy – Jens Bjørneboe
On the Heights of Despair – Cioran
Any poem collection by Anne Sexton
“The Inevitable: dispatches on the right to die.” Not emotional, not academic – just stories of people deciding whether to end their own lives.
“In Love,” by Amy Bloom, about her husband.
I believe Matt Haig writes about living with depression with an ultimately hopeful tone.
I found History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life by Jill Bialosky to be very moving as it tried to inhabit the complicated emotions of a suicidal person, although it’s about the suicide of the author’s sister.