This Close to Happy
She was hospitalized at age 6 for depression, and again after her daughter’s birth, and yet again after her mother’s death.
This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression is an articulate memoir by Daphne Merkin.
“I have often wondered whether it is depression’s very failure to fit into a neat, easily recognizable category that contributes to the ongoing stigma that attaches to it,” she writes.
What say ye?
This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression, Daphne Merkin, pub. by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017, p. 126
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