Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression
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Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she's an endowed professor at the prestigious University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She has managed to achieve this in spite of being diagnosed …
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A literary tour de force that chronicles a prize-winning author's descent into an almost suicidal depression.
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Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once.
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From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black, a riveting intergenerational account of his family’s search for home and hope
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The Collected Poems
"By the time of her death, on 11 February, 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. To my knowledge, she never scrapped any of her poetic efforts. With one or two exceptions, she brought…
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The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time
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Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
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Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
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The Yellow Wall-Paper (Penguin Little Black Classics, #42)
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