Ebook The Scar A Personal History of Depression and Recovery Audible Audio Edition Mary Cregan Audible Studios Books
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A graceful and penetrating memoir interweaving the author's descent into depression with a medical and cultural history of this illness.
At the age of 27, 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.Â
Decades later, sustained by her work, a second marriage, and a son, Cregan reflects on this pivotal experience and attempts to make sense of it. She weaves together literature and research with details from her own ordeal - and the still visible scar of her suicide attempt - while also considering her life as part of the larger history of our understanding of depression. In fearless, candid prose, Cregan examines her psychotherapy alongside early treatments of melancholia, weighs the benefits of shock treatment against its terrifying pop culture depictions, explores the controversy around antidepressants and how little we know about them - even as she acknowledges that the medication saved her life - and sifts through the history of the hospital where her recovery began.Â
Perceptive, intimate, and elegantly written, The Scar vividly depicts the pain and ongoing stigma of clinical depression, giving greater insight into its management and offering hope for those who are suffering.
Ebook The Scar A Personal History of Depression and Recovery Audible Audio Edition Mary Cregan Audible Studios Books
"This excellent book is for anyone who lives with depression or knows someone who does, which is likely all of us. Mary Cregan writes beautifully about her own life and intersperses her personal story with a history of the treatment of depression that is both fascinating and immensely readable. I can't recommend “The Scar†highly enough."
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The Scar A Personal History of Depression and Recovery Audible Audio Edition Mary Cregan Audible Studios Books Reviews
- A riveting book that enlightens as it moves you, with a transcendent conclusion that makes one feel all the joy and terrible vulnerability of being human. This beautifully written, deeply researched, personally revealing account of depression will surely become a classic.
- This excellent book is for anyone who lives with depression or knows someone who does, which is likely all of us. Mary Cregan writes beautifully about her own life and intersperses her personal story with a history of the treatment of depression that is both fascinating and immensely readable. I can't recommend “The Scar†highly enough.
- This is a beautifully written book that conveys the experience of depression better than anything else I have read, while also providing a thoughtful cultural history of the condition and its treatment.
- If it weren't for the NPR interview with Mary Cregan, I would probably never know about this books. I'm so glad I did. Very well written, very well researched, very informational and very personal.
- This book tells the compelling personal story of Mary Cregan’s battle with depression interspersed with the history of melancholia and its treatments. The author discusses shock treatment, medications and talk therapy, all of which she personally experienced after two suicide attempts. She offers hope to those suffering from depression even as she acknowledges that it is a life long struggle. This book is thoroughly researched and written in an easy to read manner. Mary’s personal story will stay with you long after you have finished this book.
- How moved I was by this beautifully written memoir, which I read in three sittings. Cregan elegantly weaves in her personal story with a cultural and medical history of melancholia and mood disorder, creating a book that is heartbreaking, inspiring, and instructive all at once. This book will take its place next to canonical works like Styron's Darkness Visible and Solomon's Noonday Demon. A must-read for anyone who has suffered depression or who loves someone who has.
- I loved this book. She is a beautiful, personal, lyrical writer, brilliantly incisive and able to recall with incredible detail a harrowing journey through post partum despression, a condition we don't tend to talk about enough. That she can also bring literary references to bear on her experience was also illuminating. After reading this book, I understood with new compassion the suicide of a mother of a dear friend of mine. I never before really had a sense of what she went through. This book is full of grace.
- A beautifully written and deeply moving account in personal terms, layered with historical, medical and cultural perspectives. Cregan inspires compassion for all who have experienced depression as she develops understanding of herself as a patient with melancholia.
