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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival => Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board => Topic started by: Dr. Richard Grossman on May 12, 2009, 05:07:49 PM

Title: Depression--Daphne Merkin
Post by: Dr. Richard Grossman 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.

Best,

Richard

Title: Re: Depression--Daphne Merkin
Post by: Ami 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