Author Topic: Depression--Daphne Merkin  (Read 1443 times)

Dr. Richard Grossman

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Depression--Daphne Merkin
« on: May 12, 2009, 05:07:49 PM »
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.

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Richard

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Re: Depression--Daphne Merkin
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2009, 10:19:49 PM »
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
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.        Eleanor Roosevelt

Most of our problems come from losing contact with our instincts,with the age old wisdom stored within us.
   Carl Jung