What is it like to decide to end your life, make all the detailed plans, attempt suicide, and then live? What are the feelings and obsessions that make a person determine that suicide is the only answer? And how does the very act of unsuccessful self-destruction change people for ever?
Waking Up Alive is a sensitive and caring book which traces the path from seeking death to embracing life. Based on interviews with scores of people who have attempted suicide and failed, it will help you to understand the terrible spiral of pain and isolation that is the process of suicide. It describes the thoughts of those who realised they were still alive despite the attempt, and examines their physical and emotional after-effects. It also shows how these people recovered and started the process of healing the past and learning to value themselves and rebuild their lives. For the many people whom suicide has touched, Waking Up Alive offers a light within the darkness.