A review by fjette
How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind by Clancy Martin

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

Interesting, more limited in scope/autobiographical than I realized. I found myself noticing a lack of reflection in the ways the author was allowed to repeatedly enter the justice system and also involuntary psych treatment but retained control over himself and his life, and I wish there had been a little discussion of involuntary psych treatment and the justice system and how both handle suicidality and addiction, and how the author as a straight white man was able to work within those systems in ways others were not. But that was not the specific focus of the book, it was very laser-focused on his suicidality itself, so maybe that’s more about me as a reader than the author as a writer. 
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