7/7/2023 0 Comments An unquiet mind review![]() This is the plot of William Styron's "Darkness Visible," a chilling, and groundbreaking, memoir, and until the publication earlier this year of Martha Manning's "Undercurrents" one of the few personal narratives of depression Kind of spiritual upward mobility), which derives from the Puritan conversion narrative: Once I was a sinner but now I am saved. There is the death-and-rebirth version (a There is the success version, in which the intrepid narrator ascends from illness to health through hard work, perseverance and the right mental attitude. ![]() Taking medication? What's the matter, can't you do it yourself?Īmerican stories of illness should be tales of triumph. Depressed? Can't get out of bed? Nonsense pull up your Perhaps that's because these are un-American inactivities, times when we are not busy and productive, engaging in what Benjamin FranklinĬalled "visible industry." Celebrating the values of a revolutionary and capitalist culture, we judge particularly harshly any illness that incapacitates the will. WE do not have enough stories to help us imagine our lives during periods of illness, chronic pain or depression. $23.95ĪN UNQUIET MIND By Kay Redfield Jamison. ![]() ![]() $23.95 THE BEAST A Reckoning With Depression. October 1, 1995, Sunday, Late Edition - FinalĪ SHINING AFFLICTION A Story of Harm and Healing in By Annie G. ![]()
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