Posted by noa on February 13, 2004, at 20:03:56
In reply to First person account of depression--Help, posted by gardenergirl on February 13, 2004, at 16:00:00
Oh, yeah...
Andrew Solomon, "Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression"
Martha Manning, "Undercurrents : A Life Beneath the Surface"
Tracy Thompson, "The Beast : A Journey Through Depression"
Nell Casey (Editor), "Unholy Ghost : Writers on Depression"
William Styron, "Darkness Visible: a Memoir of Madness"
Cait Irwin, "Conquering the Beast Within : How I Fought Depression and Won ... and How You Can, Too" (written for teens)
And, yes this next one is about bipolar, but it is a good one....
Kay Redfield Jamison, "An Unquiet Mind : A Memoir of Moods and Madness"
And this one is more about a 60's era drug-induced psychosis, but it's interesting...
Mark Vonnegut, "The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity"
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