Hello I want to die please fix me : depression in the first person
by
 
Paperny, Anna Mehler, author.

Title
Hello I want to die please fix me : depression in the first person

Author
Paperny, Anna Mehler, author.

Summary
Depression is a havoc-wreaking illness that masquerades as personal failing and hijacks your life. After a major suicide attempt in her early twenties, Paperny set off on a journey to understand her condition, the dizzying array of medical treatments on offer, and a medical profession in search of answers. She maps competing schools of therapy, pharmacology, cutting-edge medicine; the pill-popping pitfalls of long-term treatment; the glaring unknowns and the institutional shortcomings that both patients and practitioners are up against. -- Adapted from front flap.

General Note
"Originally published in Canada by Random House Canada, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in 2019. First published in the United States in revised form by The Experiment, LLC, in 2020."

Contents
Cataclysm -- When you try to die and don't -- Psych-ward sojourn -- What, me depressed? -- When diagnosis makes you crazy -- Killing yourself is tougher than you'd think -- Know thine enemy -- Checking boxes -- Suicide blues -- Getting in trouble -- A pill-popping parade -- Good noticing! -- Zapping, shocking, and burning your brain into submission -- Brainiacs -- A dry pharma pipeline -- Old illness, new tricks : the electrode in your brain -- Old illness, new tricks : from psychedelics to smartphones -- Stigma and related bullshit -- Through the cracks -- Mental health is for rich people -- Trying to heal the littlest minds -- "More children do not have to die" -- Race as barrier -- Who you gonna call? -- How to talk about what we talk about when we talk about wanting to die -- Certifiable -- Trust issues -- First person afterword.

Physical Description
xiv, 337 pages ; 23 cm

Genre
Personal narratives.

Personal Subject
Paperny, Anna Mehler.

Subject Term
Mental health services.
 
Depressed persons.
 
Depression, Mental -- Treatment.
 
Journalists -- Biography.
 
Depressed persons -- Biography.

Publisher
The Experiment,

Publication Date
2020

ISBN
9780735272828
 
9781615194926

Publication Information
New York : The Experiment, [2020]

Call Number
362.196 PAPERNY


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