Night falls fast
by Kay R. Jamison · first published 1999
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"Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, an internationally recognized authority on depressive illnesses and their treatment, knows this subject firsthand. At the age of twenty-eight, after years of struggling with manic-depression, she attempted to kill herself. Her survival marked the beginning of a life's work to investigate both mental illness and self-inflicted death."--BOOK JACKET. "Weaving together a psychological and scientific exploration of the subject with personal essays about individual suicides, Dr. Jamison in this book brings not only her compassion and literary skill but all of her knowledg
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…and wellness, what then? What if it turns out to be part of the human condition, as is perhaps the case with existential depression[3]? Absolutely the best book I've read on depression and suicide is Night Falls Fast[4] by Kay Redfield Jamision, a Johns Hopkins psychiatry professor. It's a few years old now but I don't think that the topics and themes in it will ever date even though the science in it might. It is…
on “Medical research: If depression were cancer (2014)” ↗To anyone who is really interested in the subject, I recommend a book called "Night Falls Fast." It's available as an e-book.
on “The End of Ragequitting” ↗> Absolutely the best book I've read on depression and suicide is Night Falls Fast ... I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Honest question: do you recommend the book to folks suffering from non-trivial depression? As in: is there some sort of "happy ending" within the precise…
on “Medical research: If depression were cancer (2014)” ↗