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This Close to Happy is the rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman's perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime. Taking off from essays on depression she has...

Self-care is a powerful, evidence-based medicine for the mind. Mental health is the driving force behind every decision we make--how we live, work, and love. Many of us suffer from depression and anxiety, which impede our choices and quality of life, and despite the...

At the age of twenty-seven, married, living in New York, and working in book design, Mary Cregan gives birth to her first child, a daughter she names Anna. But it's apparent that something is terribly wrong, and two days later, Anna dies--plunging Cregan into suicidal despair. Decades...

Nominated for 2023 Eisner Awards in the Best Graphic Memoir and Best Writer/Artist...

At twenty-two, Julie Barton collapsed on her kitchen floor in Manhattan. She was one year out of college and severely depressed. Summoned by Julies incoherent phone call, her mother raced from Ohio to New York and took her home.

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...