Letters to a Young Madman: A Memoir “You cannot distract yourself from grief. You cannot dispel it. You cannot conquer it. You can only live through it.”
When Paul Gruchow first started putting Letters to a Young Madman together, he wondered how his disjointed ...
I Am Not Silent: Our Zoloft and Depression Story The intersection of our mental health and criminal justice systems is one that is fraught with complications. Numerous questions arise when a defendant has a history of mental illness. For Gail Schmidkunz, this reality became ...
Breath in the Dark: A Childhood Lost When I was 6 years old, my favorite pastime was playing with dolls or playing dress-up. I can remember spending hours in my “princess” dress, dancing around the living room while my mother stood by ...
Companion to an Untold Story Marcia Aldrich’s Companion to an Untold Story is the author’s attempt to make sense of her close friend’s suicide. In the time leading up to the unfortunate event, Aldrich’s friend Joel hatched a plan to ...
Before The World Intruded: Conquering The Past And Creating The Future Michele Rosenthal’s memoir, Before The World Intruded, is the story of her struggle with a life-threatening illness and the trauma it created.
Rosenthal shares her battle with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS), leading us from her diagnosis ...
George Mason: Life of Death Author's note: This review of George Mason’s autobiography, Life of Death, is not a review of Mason’s life, but rather of his book. It is difficult to critique the book without appearing critical toward the ...
The Lonely Screams: Understanding the Complex World of the Lonely Loneliness is certainly a common human experience; even if you’ve been lucky enough to feel it only briefly, or rarely, you know the misery of it, the actual physical pain of it. Arising from a ...
Sleeping With Gods The subject of mental illness has often been explored in works of literature and other media. Michael Fontana’s novel Sleeping With Gods aims to combine a coming-of-age love story with themes of mental health. In ...
Cry Depression, Celebrate Recovery: My Journey through Mental Illness Barbara Altman, a St. Louis, Mo., native, earned her Bachelor of Music degree at Fontbonne University and taught music therapy at St. Louis Institute of Music. She now teaches piano and guitar in her home ...
Surviving Depression: My Agonizing Struggle with Sanity Robert L. Hamlett’s Surviving Depression offers a window into the life of a man to whom many people can relate. His style may not be as eloquent as some, but Hamlett does get his point ...
History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life After reading History of a Suicide, written by Jill Bialosky, I was moved by the way the author not only shared her story of her sister's suicide, but also how committed she was to researching ...
Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories About Mental Illness Before beginning a review of Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories About Mental Illness, this reviewer feels that it is necessary to disclose that it is the very first graphic novel she has ever read. Keeping ...
You Can’t Fight Depression Alone Two things happened today that made me want to pound my head against a wall, Charlie Brown-style.
The first was that I got an email from a woman who said that she is suffering from ...
Struck By Living: From Depression to Hope Any memoir opening with “I tried to kill myself three times” has the imperative to deliver on the promise of importance, conflict, and resolution inherent within that declaration. For author Julie K. Hersh, Struck by ...
Depression and Teenage Identity Building One day of high school, I distinctly remember realizing that I had more friends who were taking some form of psychiatric medication than friends ...
