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How Not to Kill Yourself

A Survival Guide for Imaginative Pessimists
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How Not to Kill Yourself by Set Sytes and Faith G. Harper is a compassionate self-help book offering practical advice and relatable insights for those struggling with thoughts of self-harm. It combines professional expertise with personal anecdotes to provide hope, understanding, and effective strategies for navigating challenging mental health issues. This guide not only aims to help readers cope with immediate feelings but also strives to inspire long-term personal growth and resilience.
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How Not to Kill Yourself

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A helpful, funny guide for staying alive.

Are you inclined to escape the crumminess of everyday life into fantasy worlds? Are you smart and imaginative in a way that isn't really suited to your surroundings? Are you definitely misunderstood, likely angry, and almost certainly depressed? Set Sytes, hailing from the UK, would prefer you stay alive and sort things out rather than the alternative, thanks.

He figures there are better opportunities for you out there and lays it all out in a way that's compelling, funny, sharp, and useful. This book (please don't call it a self-help guide, asks the author) is ultimately about how to be a person in the world. It can be done non-miserably, we promise.

This updated edition of How Not to Kill Yourself includes a new foreword by author Set Sytes.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781648410956

Publisher: Microcosm Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 June 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Microcosm Publishing

Edition: 2nd Revised ed.

Illustration: 1 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 178.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 160

About the Author

Set Sytes was born in the misty, Arthurian woods of England and was raised by bears. He grew up learning how to do and be many things at the same time, including slaying monsters, rescuing damsels in distress (who turned out to be neither in distress nor, in fact, damsels), and commanding great armies (the strategy involved inevitably being "everybody charge at the enemy"). As the Real World struck with a calamitous clang, Set was found wandering around in the desolate aftermath, completely uncertain about what was now expected of him. He faffed and stumbled around for an embarrassingly long time (sometimes failing quite spectacularly) and then finally turned his hand to the only thing he remembered being any good at as a kid: writing. He was relieved to break the curse of never having finished anything in his life, when he finished his first novel. Which was okay-ish. Set has since authored many stories of darkness and weirdness and flights of fancy, including the sci-fi/fantasy/western novel WULF, the YA pirate fantasy India Bones and the Ship of the Dead, the thoroughly twisted dystopian thriller Moral Zero, and the fantasy/horror short story collections of Faces in the Dark and Born to Be Weird. Set requests politely that you don't put onions anywhere near his food.

Faith G. Harper, PhD, LPC-S, ACS, ACN is a bad-ass, funny lady with a PhD. She's a licensed professional counselor, board supervisor, certified sexologist, and applied clinical nutritionist with a private practice and consulting business in San Antonio, TX. She has been an adjunct professor and a TEDx presenter, and proudly identifies as a woman of color and uppity intersectional feminist. She is the author of the betselling book Unf*ck Your Brain, as well as many other popular books and zines on subjects such as anxiety, depression, and grief. She is available as a public speaker and for corporate and clinical trainings.

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