Life B : overcoming double depression : a memoir / Bethanne Patrick.
Material type: TextPublisher: Berkeley : Counterpoint, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First Counterpoint editionDescription: xxii, 184 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781640091290
- 1640091297
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Biography | PATRICK, B. P314 | Available | 33111011069578 | ||||
Adult Book | Main Library | Biography | PATRICK, B. P314 | Available | 33111011298631 | ||||
Adult Book | Northport Library | Biography | PATRICK, B. P314 | Available | 33111009478443 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A bracing and fresh look at a lifelong struggle with depression and mental illness
Plagued by depression her entire life, it wasn't until her early fifties that writer and book critic Bethanne Patrick, advocating for her own care, received a medical diagnosis that would set her on the path to wellness and stability.
Recognizing the intergenerational effects of trauma and mental health struggles, Patrick unearths the stories of her past in order to forge a better future for herself and her two daughters, dismantling the stigmas surrounding mental health challenges that can plague families into silence and resignation. Life B is an intimate portrait we haven't yet seen--of a lifelong struggle with depression, of midlife diagnosis and newly found strength. Most important, it's a life-affirming blueprint of how to accept and transcend the limitations of mental illness.
"Dismantling the stigmas surrounding mental health challenges, this intimate portrait of the author's lifelong struggle with depression is a life-affirming blueprint of how to accept and transcend the limitations of mental illness"-- Provided by publisher.
Introduction: I will always be depressed, and I'm okay with that -- The progenitors -- Snake hill -- Bitter roots -- Rosin on the bow -- Gracious living -- Life during wartime -- The ginkgo path -- Disruptive -- The disappearing wife -- Moving boxes -- Coming unbound -- In absentia -- The diagnosis -- Learning to bend -- Little women -- Careful pruning -- Family albums.