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Eric's Story. Surviving a Son's Suicide

Author : Sandra Underwood

Publisher : Xlibris Corporation

Page : 184 pages

File Size : 42,25 MB

Release : 2013-08-06

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 148366080X

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Eric's Story - Surviving A Son's Suicide is a mother's account of the sudden, unexpected death of her only child. Eric Michael Underwood was a highly successful 27 year-old engineer and actor living in Los Angeles when, in 1995, he took his own life. The book tells the story of his bouts with the depression his parents never knew about, his success as an engineer as well as his budding career as an actor (he was in the movie Forrest Gump with Tom Hanks). It details his mother's struggle to go on living and survive her devastating loss.



Real Men Do Cry

Author : Eric Hipple

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Page : 0 pages

File Size : 35,16 MB

Release : 2008-09

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780981621920

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Real Men Do Cry, by former NFL quarterback Eric Hipple, is an incredible story of tragedy and triumph. After his 15-year-old son died of suicide, Eric fell into a debilitating downward spiral. Bankrupt and jailed for drunk driving, he found the strength to seek therapy for his own depression and was able to make an amazing comeback. With unflinching honesty, Eric shares his journey, thus opening the door for others to realize that depression is treatable. This page-turner is packed with practical resources for families living with depression and is a valuable tool for counselors and mental health professionals nationwide. Resources include a Nine-Symptom Checklist for Depression along with Signs of Depression and Possible Suicide Risk.



A Tragic Kind of Wonderful

Author : Eric Lindstrom

Publisher : Poppy

Page : 237 pages

File Size : 44,94 MB

Release : 2017-02-07

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 0316260045

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In the vein of It's Kind of a Funny Story and All the Bright Places, comes a captivating, immersive exploration of life with mental illness. For sixteen-year-old Mel Hannigan, bipolar disorder makes life unpredictable. Her latest struggle is balancing her growing feelings in a new relationship with her instinct to keep everyone at arm's length. And when a former friend confronts Mel with the truth about the way their relationship ended, deeply buried secrets threaten to come out and upend her shaky equilibrium. As the walls of Mel's compartmentalized world crumble, she fears the worst--that her friends will abandon her if they learn the truth about what she's been hiding. Can Mel bring herself to risk everything to find out? In A Tragic Kind of Wonderful, Eric Lindstrom, author of the critically acclaimed Not If I See You First, examines the fear that keeps us from exposing our true selves, and the courage it takes to be loved for who we really are.



Norwegian Wood

Author : Haruki Murakami

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 307 pages

File Size : 31,53 MB

Release : 2010-08-11

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0307762718

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From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore: A magnificent coming-of-age story steeped in nostalgia, “a masterly novel” (The New York Times Book Review) blending the music, the mood, and the ethos that were the sixties with a young man’s hopeless and heroic first love. Now with a new introduction by the author. Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. As Naoko retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman. Stunning and elegiac, Norwegian Wood first propelled Haruki Murakami into the forefront of the literary scene.



Tap Out

Author : Eric Devine

Publisher : Running Press Kids

Page : 322 pages

File Size : 30,79 MB

Release : 2012-09-11

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 0762447001

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Seventeen-year-old Tony Antioch lives in Pleasant Meadows, a trailer park where questions aren't asked since everyone already knows the answers from their own experience. He dreams of rescuing his mother from her constant stream of abusive boyfriends but in reality can barely duck the punches that are aimed at himself. When Tony is coerced into joining his friend Rob's Mixed Martial Arts class, he is surprised to find that he has a talent that he actually wants to develop. But with a meth-dealing biker gang that is hungry for recruits and a vicious cycle of poverty and violence that precedes him, Tony is going to need a lot more than blood and guts to find a way out. Gritty, powerful, and unapologetic, Tap Out explores what it takes to stay true to oneself and the consequences of the choices made along the way in order to do so.



A Sherpa Named Zoi

Author : Eric Hodgdon

Publisher :

Page : 179 pages

File Size : 19,85 MB

Release : 2017-11-11

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ISBN : 9781973265870

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How am I ever going to get through this? How can I move on when I feel stuck?How could I possibly thrive when the person I miss the most isn't here anymore? This personal and revealing book will show you how to answer these questions, and more, to empower you to find the beauty in life as you build your resilience in the face of your loss. When death takes our loved one's life, we step onto one of three paths:The first - we stumble through our grief and with time and just enough support, we survive. The second - we remain stuck in the chasm of grief, having a very difficult time believing that we will ever feel better, smile, or be happy again. For some, the grief can last the rest of their life.Despite having access to counselors, support groups, friends and family, we tend to manage gravity of the grief alone and often see no path forward. We don't know how leverage our own strengths to find a pathway back to better days and to the weightlessness of resilience. But why do we have to just survive and let death take our life too? Why not thrive and find out our true purpose for living our lives? The third - we walk the path of empowerment that guides us through our grief, where we live a life of gratitude for what is, and thrive intentionally with resilience. "A Sherpa Named Zoi" empowers you to thrive, to raise your frequency to thrive and see the beauty in life again. This book guides you on:* How to answer the questions we all ask after the death of a loved one - one at a time.* How to frame your mindset to stop negative self-narratives and make way for forgiveness and gratitude.* How to function with purpose on a level that is equal to or better than before your loss.* How to form the core values that bring energy and direction to your life.* How to surpass existing in survival mode and live with purpose and intent. Follow the advice in this book and the weightlessness of resilience will be revealed. You will begin to thrive with intention in the honor of the person that you miss the most. What's stopping you from unlocking the resilience you have inside of you already today?Scroll to the top and click the "buy now" button



Isaac's Storm

Author : Erik Larson

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 338 pages

File Size : 49,64 MB

Release : 2000-07-11

Category : History

ISBN : 0375708278

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From the bestselling author of The Devil in the White City, here is the true story of the deadliest hurricane in history. National Bestseller September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over six thousand people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in American history--and Isaac Cline found himself the victim of a devastating personal tragedy. Using Cline's own telegrams, letters, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the science of hurricanes, Erik Larson builds a chronicle of one man's heroic struggle and fatal miscalculation in the face of a storm of unimaginable magnitude. Riveting, powerful, and unbearably suspenseful, Isaac's Storm is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets the great uncontrollable force of nature.



This Stops Today

Author : Gwen Carr

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 233 pages

File Size : 33,87 MB

Release : 2018-10-01

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1538109816

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After the death of her son, Eric Garner, at the hands of New York City police officers on Staten Island went viral, Gwen Carr’s life changed forever. The illegal chokehold that took Garner’s life has been seared into the public consciousness forever as the large black man struggled to breathe while a white policeman held him down on a hot concrete sidewalk. His death set the tone for a new normal where young black men and women now automatically document police interactions with their cell phones for fear of brutality and even death. As one of the Mothers of the Movement, Gwen Carr, a retired transit train operator, now dedicates her time to fighting for racial equality, especially the way law enforcement treats blacks in the United States. In This Stops Today, Carr shares the tragedies she’s faced, recalls her son’s life and death, and recounts her newfound role as an activist in the fight for racial equality. More than the story of a single moment, her book recounts a life of family, community, and of a woman who now speaks for those who no longer can. She has to do it for her firstborn. She has to do it for Eric.



Ships from Hell

Author : Raymond Lamont-Brown

Publisher : The History Press

Page : 164 pages

File Size : 46,53 MB

Release : 2002-01-28

Category : History

ISBN : 075249483X

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This is a new and frightening insight into Japanese atrocities in the Second World War. The horrific conditions aboard hellships at sea are revealed including the torture, disease and massacre which characterised them.



Out of the Darkness

Author : Eric A. Shelman

Publisher : Dolphin Moon Pub

Page : 356 pages

File Size : 25,11 MB

Release : 2003-12

Category : History

ISBN : 9780966940015

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In 1874, an amazing event took place--the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) initiated the rescue of a severely abused child named Mary Ellen Wilson. Her rescue initiated the beginning of true child protection in this country, and eventually, the first child protection agency in America was formed.