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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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