This is How it Feels: A Memoir of Attempting Suicide and Finding Life

At twenty-years-old, Craig Miller attempted to end his own life. He sat on the edge of a rented bed and swallowed two hundred and fifty pills. He lay back and closed his eyes, never imagining that a note he wrote to himself fourteen years earlier would be what would save his life. That note, written across the creases of a tear stained paper, read, "Don't ever forget how this feels."

From the time he was six-years-old, Craig lived his life by those words. He believed that if he needed to re...