Depression

Kertomus kasvusta, kivusta, isyydestä ja kaiken läpi leikkaavasta luovuudesta Ymmärrän varmaan toden teolla, millaista oli olla isänä minulle, vasta kun omat lapseni toistavat samat virheet. Aikuisuuden kynnyksellä viestikapulaa siirrettäessä kapulan kuuluu poltella sormissa. Se on koko juoksun dramaattisin vaihe. Kukaan kantajista ei tiedä, lähteekö hän ankkurimatkalle vai siirtääkö vain kapulaa eteenpäin. Värityskirja on tekijänsä omiin kokemuksiin perustuva, raadollisen rehellinen romaani, joka kuvaa tavallista elämää epätavallisissa puitteissa. Se on tarina minuudesta ja siitä, kuinka maailma voi kadottaa värinsä.

"AM I LOSING MY MIND?" People with Borderline Personality Disorder experience such violent and frightening mood swings that they often fear for their sanity. They can be euphoric one moment, despairing and depressed the next. There are an estimated 10 million sufferers of BPD living in America today—each displaying remarkably similar symptoms: ● a shaky sense of identity ● sudden violent outbursts ● oversensitivity to real or imagined rejection ● brief, turbulent love affairs ● frequent periods of intense depression ● eating disorders, drug abuse, and other self-destructive tendencies ● an irrational fear of abandonment and an inability to be alone For years BPD was difficult to describe, diagnose, and treat. But now, for the first time, Dr. Jerold J. Kreisman and health writer Hal Straus offer much-needed professional advice, helping victims and their families to understand and cope with this troubling,shockingly widespread affliction.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, a startling challenge to our thinking about depression and anxiety. Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking antidepressants when he was a teenager. He was told—like his entire generation—that his problem was caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain. As an adult, trained in the social sciences, he began to investigate this question—and he learned that almost everything we have been told about depression and anxiety is wrong. Across the world, Hari discovered social scientists who were uncovering the real causes—and they are mostly not in our brains, but in the way we live today. Hari’s journey took him from the people living in the tunnels beneath Las Vegas, to an Amish community in Indiana, to an uprising in Berlin—all showing in vivid and dramatic detail these new insights. They lead to solutions radically different from the ones we have been offered up until now. Just as Chasing the Scream transformed the global debate about addiction, with over twenty million views for his TED talk and the animation based on it, Lost Connections will lead us to a very different debate about depression and anxiety—one that shows how, together, we can end this epidemic.