SuitabookHow to Lose Yourself Completely
Peter Bognanni
- Reading
- Check in before and during the more intense sections, especially around bereavement, panic, overdose uncertainty and fire. Afterwards, discuss how the group responds to danger without treating therapy as a guaranteed remedy.
- Themes
- Grief and idealisation: Case has lost Sean, his older brother and best friend, and looks up to him while the narrative reveals reasons to question that view. The story appears to treat grief as complicated rather than presenting idealisation as wholly reliable.
- Mental health and support: Case attends a wilderness therapy retreat, and the group members’ anxiety and need for medication become part of the situation. The book presents this mainly as information or explanation.
- Co-operation under danger: After their counsellor disappears and medication is stolen, five teenagers combine their strengths while trying to survive in the wilderness. The book presents this favourably.
- Worth knowing
- Pay particular attention to grief and loss.