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This close to happy

a reckoning with depression

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An edition of This close to happy (2017)

This close to happy

a reckoning with depression

First edition.
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"A gifted and audacious writer confronts her lifelong battle with depression and her search for release This Close to Happy is the rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman's perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime. Taking off from essays on depression she has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, Daphne Merkin casts her eye back to her beginnings to try to sort out the root causes of her affliction. She recounts the travails of growing up in a large, affluent family where there was a paucity of love and of basics such as food and clothing despite the presence of a chauffeur and a cook. She goes on to recount her early hospitalization for depression in poignant detail, as well as her complex relationship with her mercurial, withholding mother. Along the way Merkin also discusses her early, redemptive love of reading and gradual emergence as a writer. She eventually marries, has a child, and suffers severe postpartum depression, for which she is again hospitalized. Merkin also discusses her visits to various therapists and psychopharmocologists, which enables her to probe the causes of depression and its various treatments. The book ends in the present, where the writer has learned how to navigate her depression, if not "cure" it, after a third hospitalization in the wake of her mother's death. "--

"This Close to Happy is the first account to endeavor to tell the story of what it feels to suffer a lifetime's worth of clinical depression from the inside out and from a woman's point of view"--

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English
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288

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This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
Feb 27, 2018, Picador
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Cover of: This close to happy
This close to happy: a reckoning with depression
2017, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English - First edition.
Cover of: This Close to Happy
This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
Feb 07, 2017, Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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Cover of: This Close to Happy
This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
2017, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
in English

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Dewey Decimal Class
616.85/270092, B
Library of Congress
RG852 .M47 2017, RG852.M47 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
288 pages
Number of pages
288

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OL27227514M
Internet Archive
thisclosetohappy0000merk
ISBN 10
0374140367
ISBN 13
9780374140366
LCCN
2016025616
OCLC/WorldCat
957223183

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