Read The Scar A Personal History of Depression and Recovery Mary Cregan Books

Product details Hardcover 256 pages Publisher W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (March 19, 2019) Language English ISBN-10 1324001720

The Scar A Personal History of Depression and Recovery Mary Cregan Books Reviews

• A riveting book that enlightens as it moves you, with a transcendent conclusion that makes one feel all the joy and terrible vulnerability of being human. This beautifully written, deeply researched, personally revealing account of depression will surely become a classic.
• This excellent book is for anyone who lives with depression or knows someone who does, which is likely all of us. Mary Cregan writes beautifully about her own life and intersperses her personal story with a history of the treatment of depression that is both fascinating and immensely readable. I can't recommend “The Scar” highly enough.
• This is a beautifully written book that conveys the experience of depression better than anything else I have read, while also providing a thoughtful cultural history of the condition and its treatment.
• If it weren't for the NPR interview with Mary Cregan, I would probably never know about this books. I'm so glad I did. Very well written, very well researched, very informational and very personal.
• This book tells the compelling personal story of Mary Cregan’s battle with depression interspersed with the history of melancholia and its treatments. The author discusses shock treatment, medications and talk therapy, all of which she personally experienced after two suicide attempts. She offers hope to those suffering from depression even as she acknowledges that it is a life long struggle. This book is thoroughly researched and written in an easy to read manner. Mary’s personal story will stay with you long after you have finished this book.
• How moved I was by this beautifully written memoir, which I read in three sittings. Cregan elegantly weaves in her personal story with a cultural and medical history of melancholia and mood disorder, creating a book that is heartbreaking, inspiring, and instructive all at once. This book will take its place next to canonical works like Styron's Darkness Visible and Solomon's Noonday Demon. A must-read for anyone who has suffered depression or who loves someone who has.
• I loved this book. She is a beautiful, personal, lyrical writer, brilliantly incisive and able to recall with incredible detail a harrowing journey through post partum despression, a condition we don't tend to talk about enough. That she can also bring literary references to bear on her experience was also illuminating. After reading this book, I understood with new compassion the suicide of a mother of a dear friend of mine. I never before really had a sense of what she went through. This book is full of grace.
• A beautifully written and deeply moving account in personal terms, layered with historical, medical and cultural perspectives. Cregan inspires compassion for all who have experienced depression as she develops understanding of herself as a patient with melancholia.