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So was I.

Tears flowing copiously, leaning over the second floor balcony, I was overcome with darkness, the likes of which I had nev...more...]]> 249042 0679736395 9780679736394 1362 186 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173125109m/249042.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249042.Darkness_Visible_A_Memoir_of_Madness 1 4 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Aug 02 17:25:48 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 03:28:58 -0800 2009 The Bell Jar, and instead of feeling any sort of comfort or recogn...more...]]> 249042 0679736395 9780679736394 1362 186 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173125109m/249042.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249042.Darkness_Visible_A_Memoir_of_Madness 5 1 false Fri Feb 27 18:35:31 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 06:24:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 249042 0679736395 9780679736394 1362 186 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173125109m/249042.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249042.Darkness_Visible_A_Memoir_of_Madness 3 2 false Sat May 17 10:26:54 -0700 2008 Sat May 17 11:37:55 -0700 2008
Good points:
+This is still one of the best descriptions of what an episode of major depression actually feels like. Styron completely nails the overwhelming sense that your life is coming to an end ...more...]]> 249042 0679736395 9780679736394 1362 186 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173125109m/249042.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249042.Darkness_Visible_A_Memoir_of_Madness 4 1 false Sun Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 01 08:43:22 -0800 2008 Mon Apr 28 17:15:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 11878 0679643524 9780679643524 57 11 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166487528m/11878.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11878.Darkness_Visible_A_Memoir_of_Madness 0 1 false Sat Aug 23 00:05:35 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 18 22:46:29 -0700 2009
It's strange because I am both... intensely touched and horrified to read the book. Reading about depression tends to, well, depress me. The fear it drudges up is so palpable that it is al...more...]]> 11878 0679643524 9780679643524 57 11 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166487528m/11878.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11878.Darkness_Visible_A_Memoir_of_Madness 5 1 false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Mar 31 13:17:50 -0700 2007 Sat Mar 31 17:15:33 -0700 2007 more...]]> 11878 0679643524 9780679643524 57 11 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166487528m/11878.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11878.Darkness_Visible_A_Memoir_of_Madness 3 0 false Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 14 17:47:08 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 18 17:01:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 249042 0679736395 9780679736394 1362 186 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173125109m/249042.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249042.Darkness_Visible_A_Memoir_of_Madness 5 2 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 13:50:13 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 17:00:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 249042 0679736395 9780679736394 1362 186 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173125109m/249042.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249042.Darkness_Visible_A_Memoir_of_Madness 4 0 true Wed Mar 04 12:26:59 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 10 16:17:39 -0700 2009 A literary memoir of madness

William Styron was a soldier in his internal war with melancholia, who after rising up from the depths of its temporary madness decided to share his fashioned armour and learned defences with the afflicted masses, via Darkness Visible.

This literar...more...]]> 249042 0679736395 9780679736394 1362 186 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173125109m/249042.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249042.Darkness_Visible_A_Memoir_of_Madness 5 1 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 13 10:10:54 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 14 00:24:02 -0700 2007
A phenomenal, perfect, exquisite description of one man's descent into extreme clinical depression. Styron eloquently puts into words the utter bleakness of what it is to be depressed and expresses a perfect sense of some sort of worth and hope at the end.

Shou...more...]]> 249042 0679736395 9780679736394 1362 186 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173125109m/249042.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249042.Darkness_Visible_A_Memoir_of_Madness 3 0 false Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 02:01:16 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 08:12:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 249042 0679736395 9780679736394 1362 186 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173125109m/249042.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249042.Darkness_Visible_A_Memoir_of_Madness 4 0 false Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 08:13:53 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 08:21:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 930226 0394588886 9780394588889 31 6 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191370704m/930226.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/930226.Darkness_Visible_A_Memoir_of_Madness 5 1 false Mon Sep 03 18:03:03 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 08:39:24 -0800 2009 249042 0679736395 9780679736394 1362 186 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173125109m/249042.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249042.Darkness_Visible_A_Memoir_of_Madness 5 1 false Sun Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 13 09:29:44 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 02 06:39:22 -0800 2009 249042 0679736395 9780679736394 1362 186 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173125109m/249042.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249042.Darkness_Visible_A_Memoir_of_Madness 4 0 false Mon Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 12:47:35 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 12:47:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 930226 0394588886 9780394588889 31 6 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191370704m/930226.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/930226.Darkness_Visible_A_Memoir_of_Madness 5 0 false Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 11:29:56 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 11:48:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 249042 0679736395 9780679736394 1362 186 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173125109m/249042.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249042.Darkness_Visible_A_Memoir_of_Madness 5 0 false Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 18:14:13 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 10:28:22 -0800 2009 bout with depression, or melancholia as it was called in the past.
He thinks that old word carries more accurately the almost
insupportable weight of the experience, "depression" being
diluted by its many no...more...]]> 249042 0679736395 9780679736394 1362 186 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173125109m/249042.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249042.Darkness_Visible_A_Memoir_of_Madness 4 0 false Mon Jan 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 14:07:41 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 14:30:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 249042 0679736395 9780679736394 1362 186 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173125109m/249042.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249042.Darkness_Visible_A_Memoir_of_Madness 4 1 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Oct 02 07:50:16 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 02 07:51:31 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=249042