Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

Type

Book

Authors

William Styron

ISBN 10

0679736395

ISBN 13

9780679736394

Tags

Self-Help, Authors, Memoirs, Depression

Description

With this memoir, author William Styron tries to banish the stigma and ignorance surrounding depression by relating his own struggle with mental illness. In great detail, Styron describes his paralyzing symptoms, the seemingly unending pain that blotted out his ability to enjoy food, socialize, and even drive. He also summarizes the state of mental health treatment as he sees it, turning a critical eye both to psychotherapy and to psychiatrists who blindly prescribe medicine and do not truly understand their patients’ agony.

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