In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. Girl, Interrupted ( e-book ) by Susanna Kaysen The author chronicles his personal journey within the depression's psychic landscape, as well as offers readers an illuminating path to recovery. Written with heartrending honesty, Blue Genes captures the devastation of this family legacy of depression and details the strength and hope that can provide a way of escaping its grasp.īrain on Fire: My Month of Madness ( audiobook ) by Susannah CahalanĪn account of the author's struggle with a rare brain-attacking autoimmune disease traces how she woke up in a hospital room with no memory of baffling psychotic symptoms, describing the last-minute intervention by a doctor who identified the source of her illness.ĭarkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness ( audiobook ) by William Styron The personal story of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of the illness during her teenage years and her determined journey through the realm of available treatments.īlue Genes: A Memoir of Loss and Survival by Christopher Lukas An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness ( e-book ) by Kay Redfield Jamison
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