This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression by Daphne Merkin

This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression

Daphne Merkin

304 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction memoir psychology emotional reflective slow-paced
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A gifted and audacious writer confronts her lifelong battle with depression and her search for release This Close to Happy is the rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman’s persp...

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dark 71%
emotional 71%
reflective 71%
sad 57%
challenging 42%
informative 14%
tense 14%

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medium 42%

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