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003    OCoLC 
005    20170323190625.0 
008    160819t20172017nyuc          000 0beng   
010      2016025616 
019    947147006 
020    9780374140366|q(hardback) 
020    0374140367|q(hardback) 
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100 1  Merkin, Daphne,|eauthor. 
245 10 This close to happy :|ba reckoning with depression /
       |cDaphne Merkin. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,|c[2017] 
264  4 |c©2017 
300    288 pages :|bportrait ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "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"--|cProvided by publisher. 
520    "Despair is always described as dull," writes Daphne 
       Merkin, "when the truth is that despair has a light all 
       its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottled silver." This 
       Close to Happy--Merkin's rare, vividly personal account of
       what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression--
       captures this strange light. 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 Merkin's 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." In this dark yet 
       vital memoir, Merkin describes not only the harrowing 
       sorrow that she has known all her life, but also her early,
       redemptive love of reading and gradual emergence as a 
       writer. Written with an acute understanding of the ways in
       which her condition has evolved as well as affected those 
       around her, This Close to Happy is an utterly candid 
       coming-to-terms with an illness that many share but few 
       talk about, one that remains shrouded in stigma. In the 
       words of the distinguished psychologist Carol Gilligan, 
       "It brings a stunningly perceptive voice into the 
       forefront of the conversation about depression, one that 
       is both reassuring and revelatory"--Dust jacket. 
600 10 Merkin, Daphne|xMental health. 
600 17 Merkin, Daphne.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00165277 
650  0 Depression in children|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Depression in women|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Postpartum depression|xTreatment. 
650  0 Postpartum depression|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Depressed persons|vBiography. 
650  0 Women|xHealth and hygiene. 
650  0 Psychotherapist and patient. 
650  2 Depression. 
650  4 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. 
650  4 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical. 
650  4 PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Depression. 
650  7 Mental health.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01016339 
650  7 Postpartum depression.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01073212 
650  7 Psychotherapist and patient.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01081724 
650  7 Women|xHealth and hygiene.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01176758 
650  7 Depressed persons.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00890902 
650  7 Autobiography.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00822597 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.|2bisacsh 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft 
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