Unparalleled Sorrow: Finding My Way Back From Depression - Softcover

Dickins, Barry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1740668030 ISBN 13: 9781740668033

Publisher: Hardie Grant, 2010

Synopsis

In early 2008, Barry Dickins an artist and author suffered from insomnia. He went to the doctor, who cited clinical and severe depression as the cause. He checked in to a clinic and was told that he would be there until the joy returned to him. But the joy eluded Barry for months, and so for months he stayed alongside patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, and other traumas. He took his medication and succumbed to the electroconvulsive therapy, which left him unable to grip a pen and riddled his memory with holes. Written with Barry’s inimitable wit, humor, and lyricism and his ability to find the ridiculous and the jubilant amid the pain this heart-wrenching account follows Barry from the lows of the clinic to his eventual departure and the small joys of a game of tennis with his young son.

About this title

About the Author:

In 2008, award-winning Australian author, artist and playwright Barry Dickins was diagnosed with clinical depression. He took his medication and succumbed to the electro-convulsive therapy, which left him unable to grip a pen and riddled his memory with holes. In Unparalleled Sorrow he charts his journey into depression and the road out of it.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hardie Grant
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1740668030
• ISBN 13: 9781740668033
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312