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Life B: Overcoming Double Depression
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A bracing and fresh look at a lifelong struggle with depression and mental illness Expanded from Bethanne's popular ELLE piece, Life B is a powerful meditation on how to navigate through the stubborn, thorny roots that engulf mental illness, and how to fight for a path to recovery. Recognizing the intergenerational effects of trauma and mental health struggles, Bethanne unearths the stories of her past—through her grandmother, her mother, her sister—in order to forge a better future for her two daughters, dismantling the stigmas surrounding mental illness in the process. With the acute self-awareness of Kay Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind and the honesty and vulnerability of Daphne Merkin's This Close to Happy, Life B is Prozac Nation for baby boomers. It's an intimate portrait we haven't yet seen—of a lifelong struggle with depression, of midlife diagnosis and renewal and late-found strength. and, most importantly, a life-affirming blueprint of how to accept it and live alongside it.
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"Patrick...courageously reveals her lifelong challenge with depression ..."
"But the more I read, the more I realized how important Patrick's message is ..."
"Riveting and remarkable in its portrayal of the author's struggles, this will lend hope to others suffering from mental illness and those who love them."
"A flawed yet candid and heartfelt memoir."
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