Depression--Daphne Merkin

[Dr. Richard Grossman]

Hi everybody,

The most powerful descriptions of depression often come from the pen of wonderful writers, e.g. William Styron (Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness), and in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine, Daphne Merkin:

A Journey through Darkness--My Life With Chronic Depression

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/magazine/10Depression-t.html?scp=2&sq=daphne%20merkin&st=cse

Those who have been there will know exactly what she is talking about.  Merkin makes it frighteningly real.

Best,

Richard

[Ami]

This article has haunted me. I wish, in a way, I had not read it. The saddest part was how she was a stranger to her own mind. Her own mind had turned against her .
 I am glad that it ended on a happy note. I hope she stays well.     Ami