![]() This earnest and informative volume serves as a frank guide to those dealing with depression. Talking openly about suicide, she asserts, is crucial and in doing so here, she herself inspires in her determination to “punch” back at her illness. Due to depression’s human, societal, and economic costs, she writes, it “affects everyone,” and yet there is no overarching magic answer to this remarkably complex “shit sandwich of an illness,” and she lists options for those suffering, such as pharmaceuticals, psychotherapy, and electroconvulsive therapy. ![]() ![]() Mehler Paperny’s intense story begins in 2011 when, at 24, she ends up in the psych ward, having been discovered in her apartment after she drank antifreeze her subsequent suicide attempts included asphyxiation and overdosing on pills. This memoir cum cultural study segues between the author’s inexplicable obsession with killing herself (raised in a supportive family, she writes, her depression isn’t connected to an experiential trigger) and a review of medications and other approaches available to those struggling with depression. Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person Paperback Maby Anna Mehler Paperny (Author) 379 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Paperback 11.89 40 Used from 2.49 20 New from 11.89 1 Collectible from 37. After a major suicide attempt in her early twenties, Paperny. Journalist Mehler Paperny offers a startling and intimate portrait of her multiple attempts at suicide and digs into the disturbingly inadequate “toolbox” available to individuals suffering from acute depression. Depression is a havoc-wreaking illness that masquerades as personal failing and hijacks your life. ![]()
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