Visible: A Memoir Of Madness By Styron: Summary

Some amazing books about depression have been written, among which one can find how-to-help advice books and autobiographies written by people battling the “black dog” (Winston Churchill’s name for his depression). If you’re interested in the topic, these books are worth checking out.

header-1 “Darkness Visible: A Memoir Of Madness” By William Styron

A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron’s true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression.

Books About Depression 1Summary: In 1985 William Styron arrived in Paris to accept a prestigious writing award. But instead, he had a breakdown. In this brief book, Styron describes his own experience and eventual recovery and

Drawing on his own struggles with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, doctors and scientists, policy makers, and politicians, drug designers and philosophers, Andrew Solomon reveals the subtle complexities and sheer agony of the disease.

Summary: he confronts the challenge of defining the illness and describes the vast range of available medications, the efficacy of alternative treatments, and the impact the malady has on various demographic populations around the world and throughout history. He also explores the thorny patch of moral and ethical questions posed by emerging biological explanations for mental illness. With uncommon humanity, candor, wit, and erudition, Solomon takes readers on a journey of incomparable range and resonance into the most pervasive of family secrets.

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She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele – Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles – as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary.

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header-5 “The Bell Jar” By Sylvia Plath

Books About Depression 5A vulnerable young girl wins a dream assignment on a big-time New York fashion magazine and finds herself plunged into a nightmare. An autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath’s own mental breakdown and suicide attempt, the Ball Jar is more than a confessional novel, it is a comic but painful statement of what happens to a woman’s aspirations in a society that refuses to take them seriously… a society that expects electroshock to cure the despair of a sensitive, questioning young artist whose search for identity becomes a terrifying descent toward madness.

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header-6 “What To Do When Someone You Love Is Depressed” By Mitch And Susan K.