Maybe because I wanted to know more, to find answers to my own questions. Through the healing process of time—and through medical intervention or hospitalization in many cases—most people survive depression, which may be its only blessing; but to the tragic legion who are compelled to destroy themselves there should be no more reproof attached than to the victims of terminal cancer. Over the following decade, the Sophie's Choice author became an advocate for, and a prominent face of, the depression awareness movement. That point, however, is matter for other books; Styron's purpose is to pull back the curtains and reveal how it was for him, how he sank deeper into what he terms madness, reached the point of deciding to escape, and suddenly turned around. May 16, Celia rated it it was amazing Shelves: 
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Studies have bee I started reading this on a chartered Greyhound bus with like 23 undergraduate students traveling back to Pittsburgh from Manhattan overnight which, in retrospect, is probably the wrong time to read some William Styron.
We are not talking about a few days or even depression over a week or two, but rather months where the elevator keeps going down no matter how many times one thumps the Up button. Although both are in love, they learned different patterns of behavior for the same feeling.
Illuminating depression
However, I was moved by Styron's pithy and unsentimental account of his battle with depression - largely because he didn't connect to any "artistic" sensibility at all. Anyone who has experienced a serious degree of depression as opposed to the downhearted feeling that we often called "depressed" knows that there's somehow much to it, though it also feels like a great nothingness.
How about, women are more forthcoming and truthful in reporting depression.
Its message is this: Trivia About Darkness Visible His tone is restrained, sometimes bordering on the clinical, but he can also be quite funny, in an ironic and self-deprecating way. A wonderful, harrowing portrait of Styron's decent into a deep depression that blindsided him at the age of I have a zest for life, interesting projects, friends, and community. He infuses his account with bits of dark humor as well as allusions to others who have endured suicidal thoughts: Gold's office, where he announced that he had decided to place me on the antidepressant Nardil, styrob older medication which had the advantage of not causing the urinary retention stygon the other two pills he had prescribed.
Was it a lucky accident that he encountered one thing from the world of the living he could still connect with? I was a man capable of great tenderness mixed with the ability to turn mean.
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Sign up for the Early Bird Books newsletter, and get williaj best daily ebook deals delivered straight to your inbox. This memoir helps the reader understand how much he doesn't understand depression. His honest reflections on his experience touched people in a profound way, jumpstarting a much-needed dialogue about mental illness.
Jun 05, Terry rated it liked it Shelves: A lot of the book is taken up with Styron musing on other famous writers who were depressed as well as the treatment of his depression - nothing particularly special, pills, followed by hospitalisation and counselling. He discloses that he was an auto-didact.
This was the introduction to Unix and it was coming to an end. I set up a meeting with my best friend at willlam time. While undergoing treatment, he fell under the spell of the controversial benzodiazepine Halcyon and was told that he could take it "any time he like, as much as he like.
Is there anything more self-destructive than depression? I had a unique ability vixible talk with children. It is a literary gem as well as a marvellous compression into one short essay of that conceptually infinite beast called Depression.
He was given a host of the day's antidepressants including Nardil. Nardil would probably not take effect in less than four to six weeks — I could styorn believe this — and I would have to carefully obey certain dietary restrictions, fortunately rather epicurean no sausage, no cheese, no pate de foie grasin order to avoid a class of incompatible enzymes that might cause a stroke.
The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.
Darkness Visible (memoir) - Wikipedia
To most of those who dadkness experienced it, the horror of depression is so overwhelming as to be quite beyond expression, hence the frustrated sense of inadequacy found in the work of even the greatest artists This was my second reading of Styron's memoir. He also expresses frustration at the stigma and ignorance surrounding depression, and frequently states that people cannot truly understand how devastating and destructive depression is until they experiences it themselves.
This book was great, the only downfall, I would have liked to have read more!
In feeling unequal to the task of avoiding triggers that send you into depths that despite their destructive tendencies seem at times either desirable or necessary, like picking at a fresh wound to morbidly watch it bleed?
It may kill Read as research for a play about suicide.
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