Cracked, Not Broken: Surviving and Thriving After a Suicide Atte

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Cracked, Not BrokenSurviving and Thriving After a Suicide Attempt\nAuthor(s): Kevin Hines, Daniel J. Reidenberg\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9781442222403, 978-1442222403\nSynopsis\nThe Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most recognizable structures to define a modern city. Yet, for author Kevin Hines the bridge is not merely a marker of a place or a time. Instead, the bridge marks the beginning of his remarkable story. At 19 years old, Kevin attempted to take his own life by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge - a distance which took four seconds to fall. Recently diagnosed with bi-polar disorder, Kevin had begun to hear voices telling him he had to die, and days before his attempt, he began to believe them.\n\nThe fall would break his body, but not his spirit. His story chronicles the extraordinary will of the author to live mentally well in the face of his mental illness: bipolar disorder with psyc.