Max Mitenkov Mitenkov itibaren टोला सिमल्ताला, बिहार 811316, भारत
This book is very informative. I came away enlightened about what I considered a crippling behavior. Historically how our personality traits were passed down from our cavemen ancestors as survival tools. Bottom line, my shy tendencies should be embraced as assets. This was a great introduction into the topics of shyness and being introverted, for they are not one in the same. Now that I have my facts straight I will be moving in the right direction to not overcome my shyness but to being more comfortable with it as a part of myself and developing tools through cognitive behavior therapy to overcome my false or negative thoughts.
i thought this was a very good, readable, insightful book about suicide. starting with an anecdote of his father's death by suicide when he was a teenarger, joiner attempts to explain the reason for suicide in a concise way encompassing almost every reason for suicide, which is a first attempt (in his opinion after surveying the literature throughout almost 200 years); and i think he does it successfully. he explains suicide as developing from three traits of the victim: (1) the victim feels useless, powerless, unable to affect his world (2) the victim feels disconnected from people, which in my opinion is very closely related to the first, but he makes enough of a distinction to validly separate the two (3) the person has overcome his fear of pain and death, so people in the military, for example, have high success rates of suicide. a very good, poignant book, but i have one question to ask him, why did he title the book "why people die by suicide" instead of "why people commit suicide"?