"Daphne Merkin has been hospitalized 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 hospitalizations, 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 arc of Merkins affliction is lifelong, beginning in a childhood largely bereft of love and stretching into the present, where Merkin lives a high-functioning life and her depression is manageable, if not cured. The opposite of depression, she writes with characteristic insight, is not a state of unimaginable happiness...but a state of relative all-right-ness."--Provided by the publisher.
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ISBN:9780374140366
Physical Description:print regular print 288 pages ; 22 cm
Edition:First edition.
Publisher:New York :Farrar, Straus and Giroux,2017.
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