Excerpt from SUICIDE TANGO: Tallulah’s Laws of Bad Medicine

Dear Reader,

Tallulah’s Laws of Bad Medicine was presented to me by one of my first suicide patients as a warm thank-you for listening so intently. TW later recovered and became a successful psychiatrist who worked with suicidal girls and women. Over the years, she compiled these details about psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental-health professionals who “treated” suicidal patients. 

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Excerpt from Suicide Tango: Why Do You Want To Kill Yourself?

The following is the introduction to Chapter One by Dr. Jon Moore:

Being a textbook practitioner of the anal arts—please read: compulsively obsessive and obsessively compulsive—I often puzzle over the impossibly complex neural processes that lead a human being even to consider taking her own life. After all, they and their parents, for most people, have already invested at least fifteen years in that life, although for the average suicide—excuse me, suicidal person—this may not have been a particularly pleasant experience. 

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The Hypergenetics of Suicide: It’s Not Our Fault We Kill Ourselves Over and Over

There are trained professionals in the medical community who actually believe that anxiety, depression and suicidal behavior are just “in your mind” and have no organic basis whatsoever.

Remind me to steer clear of those idiots.

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Passionate Reasons NOT to Buy My Novel SUICIDE TANGO

SUICIDE TANGO is now on sale on Amazon!

Haters needs lovin’, too, so I’m sharing some reasons why you should NOT buy my new novel. According to the haters, at least. In the interest of accuracy, I preserved the reviewers’ original spelling, grammar and improper (or lack of) punctuation.

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Why Write A Novel About Teen Suicide?

Growing up a kid these days is the most challenging thing. We have so many distractions that compete for our limited attention, and we often go down dark roads when we can’t decide what to choose. Continue reading Why Write A Novel About Teen Suicide?