Chronicles a personal journey through depression through a series of whimsical drawings, creating a poignant, funny account of coping with a mental illness.

Product Description: According to the American Cancer Society, cancer is the second leading cause of death among children between the ages of one and fourteen. Davy was diagnosed with cancer at the age of fourteen and went on to battle depression and drug addiction for twelve more years...read more

Product Description: Throughout his life, Michael Harding has lived with a sense of emptiness - through faith, marriage, fatherhood and his career as a writer, a pervading sense of darkness and unease remained.When he was fifty-eight, he became physically ill and found himself in the grip of a deep melancholy...read more

Tony and I are brothers across the stroboscopic echoes of the past: dissolving across black interludes into the next image, and the next, and the next, until all vestige of pure vision is destroyed. All that is left is memory, and we know how faulty that can be. Who Tony was is forever blurred by who I was and how I remember who I thought Tony was . . . He is dead, and I am alive—left to dwell on questions, and to seek the answers . . .Would I, too, end up killing myself? Was the legacy of self-destruction I would discover in my family too great for me to survive? If so, when would the pendulum swing? And, if it never did, why not? How could I—almost alone among my family—escape? —From Blue GenesThis courageous, engrossing memoir explores the complex and shattering effects of a family legacy of depression and suicide on the author and his brother, the award-winning journalist, J. Anthony Lukas. Christopher (Kit) Lukas’s mother committed suicide when he was a boy. He and his brother, Tony, were not told how she died. No one spoke of the family’s history of depression and bipolar disorder. The legacy of guilt and grief haunted Kit and Tony throughout their lives.Both brothers achieved remarkable success, Tony as a gifted journalist, Kit as an accomplished television producer and director. After suffering bouts of depression, Kit was able to confront his family’s troubled past, drawing on his experience to write Silent Grief, an invaluable guide to surviving a loved one’s suicide. Tony forged a sterling career, eventually winning two Pulitzer Prizes, including one for the now-classic book Common Ground. But he never seemed to find the contentment Kit had attained; he remained creative, but depressed. In 1997, shortly before the publication of his acclaimed book, Big Trouble, Tony Lukas committed suicide.Blue Genes portrays the lives of two brothers who alternately locked horns and found solace in each other. Written with heartrending candor, it captures the devastation of this family legacy of depression, but it is also surprisingly uplifting, as it details the strength and hope that can provide a way of escaping its grasp.

A lighthearted account of the author's struggles with panic attacks and depression relates how her psychological challenges impacted her physical health and relationships before she learned to laugh at herself and promote her own recovery, in a volume that includes journal excerpts containing the author's observations about society's attitudes toward mental health. Original.

Product Description: On the clearest nights in the darkest places you can see as many as two thousand stars. On what scaffolding are they hung? Jan DeBlieu began to wonder. Her husband had become enveloped in a depression of his own, and both he and DeBlieu were struggling to find points of light out of that darkness...read more

Product Description: An Arkport Soldier's Inspirational journey as a Vietnam combat veteran by John T. Senka

The author of Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice offers a detailed account of her struggle with depression, a battle that took her on a quest to understand its origins and her discovery, in her family's past, of the pressures and possibilities of American culture and how one generation of her family shaped another.

The author describes his longtime battle with ills of manic depression, his desperate search for the ultimate high, the art-forgery scandal that confined him to jail and to house arrest, and his decision to opt for the controversial treatment of electroconvulsive therapy to preserve his sanity. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

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A gripping memoir takes readers inside the maelstrom of chronic depression, masterfully articulating the real experience and the ceaseless struggles endured by the author. By the author of Power in the Blood. (view table of contents)

The author shares his experiences with childhood polio, depression, and an addictive personality from which he learned about the flaws in the medical system and the virtue of self-motivated recovery (view table of contents)

Product Description: Being Nice at a Price, illiminates the pervasive and destructive influence of "Emotional Domination" in our lives. It "Confronts" commonly held beliefs that bind our passions, and offers one "hope" both for releasing oneself from being emotionally dominated and from the need to dominate others...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)