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Mar 12, 2007 at 05:59 PM
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Just wondering if there are songs / books or movies about people's struggles with depression?
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Mar 12, 2007 at 06:35 PM
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Songs - I listen to uplifting Christian music. I think that many of the songs are based on people who are struggling with something. Generally offers something that is uplifting
Books - the local book store should have plenty Movies - I haven't seen a lot that deal with depression - though here are some movies that deal with mental health that I've connected with.. "A Beautiful Mind" - Russel Crowe has an incredible performance protraying John Nash's struggle with Schizophrenia (based on a true story) "The Aviator" looks at Howard Hughes' (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) It chronicles Hughes' struggle with his physical disabilities/phobias, and with his increasingly erratic, obsessive-compulsive behavior that leads him to isolate himself from the world. __________________ Direction  Ripple Effect - Small things can make a difference |
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Mar 12, 2007 at 06:58 PM
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Blues music.
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Mar 12, 2007 at 09:27 PM
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here two movies about depression called Girl, Interrupted with Angelina Jolie, and Prozac Nation with Christina Ricci. I hope this helps.
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Mar 12, 2007 at 10:05 PM
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It is an older movie but I have always liked it "Ordinary People"
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Mar 12, 2007 at 11:03 PM
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My favourite book about depression is "Darkness Visible" by William Styron. It's the author's own account of a depression he went through. On the back cover it says something about offering "the solace of shared experience" and that's what it did for me. I read it when I was very depressed and I found it comforting. It's not a self-help book, it's just a very honest account of depression. He has no miraculous solutions for coming out of the depression. He does eventually come out of it, though, just like most of us do.
I have recommended it to loved ones of people who are depressed. As we all know, some people who have never been depressed think that it's just sadness. They don't understand how it feels. Styron's book is a very short, easy read and he expresses so eloquently what depression feels like. It's very enlightening for people who have never been depressed. I think it can give them insight into what their loved ones are dealing with. __________________ “Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it." - Mahatma Gandhi |
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Mar 13, 2007 at 01:06 PM
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the best books i've come across are living well with depression and bipolar and chemistry of joy and i've read lots and lots!!
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Mar 13, 2007 at 06:38 PM
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Yeah, Juliana, "Darkness Visible" is good -- I have it too, & I highly recommend it, ouch.
I have a ton of self-help books.....but they are packed away @ the moment.....can't think of many off hand......perhaps "Listening to Prozac"....sorry, can't recall author off-hand. Maybe go to local bookstore or library & peruse self-help or psych section? |
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Mar 13, 2007 at 07:07 PM
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Ouch, if you can access CAMH (downtown -- Spadina & College), then check out their library. A lot of good books.
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Mar 13, 2007 at 07:13 PM
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My favorite poet, Theodore Roethke, struggled with depression and other mental health challenges (was institutionalized at one point), and wrote about it in his poems.
One of my favorites from him is "In a Dark Time." http://gawow.com/roethke/poems/231.html In a Dark Time In a dark time, the eye begins to see, I meet my shadow in the deepening shade; I hear my echo in the echoing wood-- A lord of nature weeping to a tree, I live between the heron and the wren, Beasts of the hill and serpents of the den. What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against a sweating wall, That place among the rocks--is it a cave, Or winding path? The edge is what I have. A steady storm of correspondences! A night flowing with birds, a ragged moon, And in broad day the midnight come again! A man goes far to find out what he is-- Death of the self in a long, tearless night, All natural shapes blazing unnatural light. Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I? A fallen man, I climb out of my fear. The mind enters itself, and God the mind, And one is One, free in the tearing wind. __________________ "Therapists are experts at developing therapeutic relationships." |
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Mar 14, 2007 at 07:12 PM
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I just finished reading 'darkness visible' - great book!! The scary thing is I identified completely with his descent into depression - it paralleled mine. Weird how depression seems so similar. The description of being suicidal, of having fuzzy thoughts, of feeling hopeless, of being mute and immobile, and staring blankly without thinking, at the ceiling. All was soooo familiar. It's scary when you feel out of control, like you're losing your mind - like your mind is trying to kill you rather than help you... Thanks for the recommendation!!!
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Jan 11, 2008 at 04:56 AM
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Let's not forget Prozac Nation. It's pretty popular. (The book, that is.)
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Jan 11, 2008 at 12:40 PM
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There's a whimsical, children's series of books on all sorts of subjects, "Elf Self Help" that Amazon has:
http://www.amazon.com/Elf-help-Overc...dp/087029315X/ __________________ "Never give a sword to a man who can't dance." ~Confucius |
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