Aubri’s Reviews > How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me: One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention > Status Update

Ah, classic disordered eating/toxic diet framing - she views different food as "good" and "bad", like sugar and caffeine is bad. She mainly mentioned people with "compulsive overeating" rather than anorexia or orthorexia.

If she says that suicide is a "permanent solution to a temporary problem" one more time....

It seems to me this wealthy cis het white woman had mostly good experiences with the psychiatric system because it was built for her. She doesn't report any psychiatric abuse and seems to like the paternalistic, controlling aspects of the system. She's blissfully unaware that the system does not treat everyone like that, just people like her.

She is very moralizing. And seems unable to comprehend that many people have very real material reasons for wanting to be dead, which is shown in the data, which she hasn't read. She also assumes everyone has a well-off family with great health insurance eager to support them with a large social circle. This is just a book for her.

She repeatedly says that "suicidal thoughts were my drug of choice." This woman doesn't understand suicidality or drug use.

She also seems obliviously unaware or doesn't care that these numbers all call the cops, which is very dangerous for many people

Ah, we've gotten to "god/religion is one of the best supports for change"

I find the tone condescending, and our narrator annoying. My current conclusion is that I experience suicidal thoughts VERY differently and for very different reasons than our author.