Synopsis
Jeffery Smith was into his 8th year as a psychiatric case manager when his own struggles with clinical depression began. Eventually, all his prescribed antidepressant medications proved ineffective. He describes what happened after he decided to give them up, & sets out to get at the essence of -- using the old term for depression -- melancholia. Provides us with a "natural history" of this ancient illness. Draws on centuries of art, writing, & med. treatises inspired by the illness & its near kin, the melancholic temperament. Tells numerous instructive stories of people who fitted their lives to melancholia before the advent of modern drugs & therapies. "A provocative & highly original memoir."
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About the Author
Jeffery Smith was born in West Virginia and was raised just across the Ohio River in the Allegheny foothills of Monroe County, Ohio. He now lives with his wife, Lisa Werner, in the Appalachian foothills of Coshocton County, Ohio. This is his first book.
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