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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 18 cm
Description
"Matt Haig's accessible and life-affirming memoir of his struggle with depression, and how his triumph over the illness taught him to live"--
Like nearly one in five people, Haig suffers from depression. Here he explains how, minute by minute and day by day, he overcame the disease with the help of reading, writing, and the love of his parents and his girlfriend, and eventually learned to appreciate life all the more for it. Both inspiring to those...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sam is a troubled single mother who risks losing custody of her young daughter following a failed suicide attempt. Over the next few shaky weeks, Sam is released from the hospital into the care of her overbearing older sister, finds a job, makes tentative steps toward a new romance, and tries to reconnect with her child. But lives, and depression, sometimes have a way of making their own rules. Can a woman lost somewhere between hope and despair find...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Returning with deep psychological scars after a tour of duty in Iraq, soldier Lauren Clay guides her younger brother to an upstate New York oil field that has become the subject of her obsession and begins teaching him survival skills while revealing her experiences.
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Gifty is a sixth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xi, 452 pages ; 24 cm
Description
What is depression? Is it a persistent low mood or a complex range of symptoms? Is it a single diagnosis or a diversity of mental disorders requiring different treatments? In A Cure for Darkness, science writer Alex Riley explores these questions, digging into the long history of depression and chronicling the lives of psychiatrists and scientists who sought cures for their patients.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2021.
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"Acclaimed musical artist Michelle Williams shares the intimate, never-before-told story of how, even in the midst of enormous fame and success, she battled depression, leading her to find her true calling as an advocate for mental health--especially herown"--
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xii, 244 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"For years, Heather B. Armstrong has alluded to her struggle with depression on her website, dooce. It's scattered throughout her archive, where it weaves its way through posts about pop culture, music, and motherhood. But in 2016, Heather found herself in the depths of a depression she just couldn't shake, an episode darker and longer than anything she had previously experienced. She had never felt so discouraged by the thought of waking up in the...
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Rae is in a romantic recession. The Wall Street banker is single in New York City and overwhelmed by the pressure to scramble up the corporate and romantic ladders. Feeling her biological clock ticking, she analyzes her love life like a business deal and vows to lock in a husband before her 30th birthday. The Manhattan dating app scene has as many ups and downs as the stock market, and outsourcing dates to an algorithm isn’t exactly Rae’s idea...
12) Bad gateway
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"Perpetually drunk and high, lovable degenerates Megg and Mogg have drifted through a life full of raucous antics and free of consequences. But their heavy drug use, once a gateway to adventure, has begun to take a grim psychological toll. As her unstable lifestyle finally catches up to her, Megg must turn to her past to uncover the roots of her self-destructive habits that have led her down this dark path."--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Hazelden
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xv, 269 pages ; 23 cm
Description
The author discusses the mental illness she suffered from a young age and the treatment she received only after she left India and became a mother for the first time in the United Stateas, describing her emotional recovery and spiritual awakening and her role as an advocate for the mentally ill.
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"At the age of thirty-seven, Courtney Maum finds herself in an indoor arena in Connecticut, moments away from stepping back into the saddle. For her, this is not just a riding lesson, but a last-ditch attempt to pull herself back from the brink even though riding is a relic from the past she walked away from. She hasn't been on or near a horse in over thirty years. Although Courtney does know what depression looks like, she finds herself refusing...
15) Two lovers
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After Leonard moves back into the home he grew up in to mend a broken heart, he meets two women in quick succession. Michelle is a mysterious and beautiful neighbor. Sandra is the lovely and caring daughter of a businessman who is buying out his family's dry-cleaning business. Leonard is forced to make an impossible decision, between desire and the comfort of love, or risk falling back into the same darkness that nearly killed him.
16) Just breathe
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm
Description
From the author of Say What You Will and A Step Toward Falling comes a deeply emotional new novel, perfect for fans of Five Feet Apart and The Fault in Our Stars. David Scheinman is the popular president of his senior class, battling cystic fibrosis. Jamie Turner is a quiet sophomore, struggling with depression. The pair soon realizes that they're able to be more themselves with each other than they can be with anyone else, and their unlikely friendship...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
c2022.
Physical Desc
xi, 192 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her - what to call it? - depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgmental of others. She hides her feelings well at work and with friends, performing the calmness her lifestyle demands. The effort is exhausting, overwhelming, and keeps her from forming deep relationships. This...
19) Stolen: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 319 pages ; 24 cm
Description
An actress and producer, who suffered from crippling, undiagnosed depression in her teens, recounts her harrowing experience of psychological manipulation and abuse at a "therapeutic" boarding school where every moment was a test of survival, and shares how she was able to heal in the aftermath.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
288 pages : portrait ; 22 cm
Description
"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,...
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