Suicide for Beginners

 

 

I’m Angelina. I’m a writer, gardener, expert vegetarian cook, kitten tamer, and Vespa road-tripper.

I’m currently looking for representation for my Suicide for Beginners peer support book.

I’m NOT a mental health professional. I’m a mental health “consumer” and peer.

It has been my mission for most of my adult life to fight to destroy the stigma against mental illness.

In the context of this website and peer support work, it’s appropriate to share some of my mental health history: I have Borderline Personality Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, PTSD from childhood trauma, profound sleep problems, and a history of suicidal ideation. I’m also neuro-divergent and have misophonia.

 

Here are some more things about me:

I wrote a dystopian novel about an apothecary  called “Cricket and Grey”

I’ve been married for 31 years and we have a grown son.

I was born in a small California extra-terrestrial cult.

I’m a semi-feral human who likes animals more than most people.

I’m a wildflower ditch-diver.

Roses are my favorite cultivated flower.

I’ve been a vegetarian my whole life.

Curiosity is my superpower.