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As someone who has lived with depression for over 20 years, this was an incredibly difficult book to read. I saw my own behaviour in that of Elizabeth and had to reconcile my own harmful actions. Not an easy task!

This book so perfectly captures the overwhelming pain and fog of living with depression, and ironically, has given me pause to really work through my feelings and actions. Cannot recommend highly enough for everyone - if you have depression, you will empathise, and if you don’t, you will understand why it’s not just “being sad.”

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challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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2.0

This book was just 300 pages of self-pity but that’s sometimes almost exactly what depression is like. Elizabeth Wurtzel painted a raw and real picture of depression, and it was insufferable because people with depression ARE insufferable. I’m struggling to truly find the right words to describe this, I don’t want to talk bad on people suffering from depression. What I’m trying to say is, that this disease is so all-consuming that you become unrecognisable. You don’t care that you are hurting people around you because you can’t care about that. There is no extra mental space for that. Elizabeth Wurtzel was so fierce and real for writing this book, it was one big pity party and I loved it. That being said, I’ll go take my prozac now…

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