This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression

ISBN-13: 9781250159298 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 304 str.

Daphne Merkin

Opis

A Reckoning with Depression. Daphne Merkin has been hospitalised three times first, in grade school, for childhood depression years later, after her daughter was born, for severe postpartum depression and later still, after her mother died, for obsessive suicidal thinking. Recounting this series of hospitalisations, as well as her visits to myriad therapists and psychopharmacologists, Merkin fearlessly offers what the child psychiatrist Harold Koplewicz calls the inside view of navigating a chronic psychiatric illness to a realistic outcome. The opposite of depression, she writes with characteristic insight, is not a state of