You Are Not Alone

A Trauma Expert’s Honest Answer to Your Despair

Roland Y. Kim, Ph.D.

About This Book

A compassionate book addressed to people experiencing profound despair and suicidal thoughts. It takes recurring beliefs found in suicidal thinking seriously and responds to them with psychological reflection, trauma-informed understanding, and an effort to restore hope, connection, and alternatives to an irreversible decision.

What You’ll Explore

Self-blame, hopelessness, feeling uncared for or unworthy, pushing away people who care, perfectionism and living someone else’s life, feeling like a burden, isolation, feeling misunderstood, exhaustion, psychic pain, Silent Trauma, the relationship between suicidal and homicidal thoughts, resilience tools, and the book’s CEPAC framework.

Who This Book Is For

For readers struggling with severe despair, and for family members or others seeking to understand the inner logic that can accompany suicidal thinking. This book is educational and supportive; it is not a substitute for professional mental-health care or emergency crisis services.