Suicide is most likely committed in the winter when it is cold and dreary and most often over Christmas when we go broke while buying gifts. Wrong. While reading Jamison’s book, contrary to what we may all think, we learn that winter is, the sparsest season for suicide and that Monday is the biggest day for it. An act against the self is a violent thing. As written in Jamison’s book, when it kills the young, it is beyond our understanding, in the sick or ill fated too understandable or explainable, terrible in the old, unexplainable in the physically healthy. There is no clear cause of suicide nor can we predict it. What we do not know kills us. But the ironic thing is, that we know a lot. We know when it is most prevalent, romantic problems or fights, money, job loss. We know the most vulnerable age groups, the most vulnerable race, their social backgrounds and we know the gender most at risk, the seasons, the places, the day of the week, the time of day. But why. In the case studies, Jamison allows us to see th

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