The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
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Manufacturer: Scribner
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.85270092
EAN: 9780684854670
ISBN: 0684854678
Label: Scribner
Manufacturer: Scribner
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 576
Publication Date: 2002-04
Publisher: Scribner
Studio: Scribner
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The Noonday Demon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. Drawing on his own struggles with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, doctors and scientists, policy makers and politicians, drug designers and philosophers, Andrew Solomon reveals the subtle complexities and sheer agony of the disease. He confronts the challenge of defining the illness and describes the vast range of available medications, the efficacy of alternative treatments, and the impact the malady has on various demographic populations -- around the world and throughout history. He also explores the thorny patch of moral and ethical questions posed by emerging biological explanations for mental illness. With uncommon humanity, candor, wit, and erudition, award-winning author Solomon takes readers on a journey of incom-parable range and resonance into the most pervasive of family secrets. His contribution to our understanding not only of mental illness but also of the human condition is truly stunning.
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Summary: A must reading to all without hope.
Comment: Incredibly enlightening into the darkness of depression and the light that hope provides to all who have suffered depression. A must read to all.
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Summary: This book affected my life more than any other
Comment: This is the best book I've ever read and likely will ever read. Period.
I have suffered off and on from depression throughout my life and this book, the first and only book I've ever read on the subject, did so much for my understanding about the condition. I've really never read a book that explained what I think and feel better than this.
First off, Andrew Solomon is an excellent writer. He gets a bit verbose at times but I found each sentence, regardless of it's complexity, an adventure in and of itself. He paints such an incredible picture of the feelings and thoughts that accompany depression. Like anyone able to describe depression, Andrew has been through it and reading what he's suffered from made me realize how lucky I have been with my own depression. Andrew has seen hell, been through hell, and came out enlightened.
Strangely, I always find this book difficult to describe adequately. His words were just so well chosen and the research so personal and interesting, I feel like it's a book that needs to be experienced to be understood fully.
If you suffer from depression, clinical or occasional or undiagnosed or anything, I completely recommend reading this book from cover to cover. If you know someone who suffers from this condition and are struggling to understand what they're going through, this book will go a long way towards helping you see what they see. I've really never had a book that explained something as well as this.
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Summary: Like an addiction
Comment: Like an addiction you want to put this book down (and you do for a while) but you can't not come back to it...
The normality of the day to day abnormality of life.
Life, death, barely life, almost death, depression, struggle, complete despair, hope then numbness... what is a more basic set of human emotions... This book is so deeply troubling because it digs right through to the core of our emotions at a level fortunately most people's only experience as a proxy...
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Summary: A great supplement to graduate level texts on depression
Comment: I literally cannot put this book down. I am not a sufferer of depression, but a grad student majoring in psyschology. I have been looking for a text book would give me lots of accurate and valid information on depression but also give me the patient's point of view on this disease. This book fills the bill.
Morever, at it's heart this is a well-researched "Atlas" that guides you through all the phases of depression, external perceptions of the disease, and includes psychosocial effects of the patients, their loved ones, and support system. Andrew Solomon includes alot of anecdotal and well-researched information on psychopharmacologial medications, for those who have in-depth questions on efficacy, side-effects, and basic neurochemistry.
Most importantly this book would be very helpful for anyone who is suffering with this disease and is a great guide to where to look for help.
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Summary: Great Layperson's Perspective on Depression
Comment: One of the best books I have read on depression, and probably the best written by a layperson/patient. Not only the author has great perspective on his own illness struggles, but his personal experience does not over-dominate the volume. He did his homework, seamlessly mixing personal stories and interviews with people he met from all walks of life with more global depression facts. Chapters on treatment alternatives and politics are superb, as well as an excellent chapter on the history of depression and how it has manifested itself through the ages. I did find some sections a bit of a downer emotionally (I think unavoidable for some readers, given the subject matter), and it took a while for me to read it for that reason, but it was well worth it. Small quibble - could have ended on a bit of a higher note.
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