你好，抑郁

by 许莎莎

有一天你喜怒无常，有一天你无法自控，有一天你悲观厌世，对人生突然充满绝望，你不知道自己为什么会变成这样，男友还雪上加霜地宣布，你这是得了抑郁症。
钟西西和男友冷小星正面临着这种意料之外，从未经历的生活突变。在寻求解决办法的过程中，他们接触到形形色色的人，和各种以前没有机会了解的事情，也逐渐发现了一些只有情绪抑郁之后，才能体察到的人生况味与惊喜。

220 pages, Paperback

Published March 1, 2016

Reviews

[Rebecca · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was really excited for this book at first, to see how depression would portrayed in fiction. The answer, unfortunately, was poorly. The symptoms are described almost perfectly, so I really identified with the protagonist at first. But she is failed by "western medicine," and in my opinion, it's not the idea of Western psychological treatment that's at fault (as potrayed in the book), but that it was poorly applied by the doctors she saw. As someone who's suffered from depression for going on 10 years and who has benefited greatly from medication and therapy, I couldn't really accept the recommended ways for treating depression in the book, which dismissed these methods. What really took me from disappointed to angry was when her boyfriend hit her. Okay, not the hitting, but the fact that at the end, despite her running away from him and expecting to break up with him, he proposes marriage and they're engaged. Like that's the happy ending, she's going to marry a guy who hit her. Absolutely not. No. Of course, the book tries to show that he's changed, but that's a dangerous narrative to tell young women, especially young women who might be struggling with depression and unsupportive partners. I was angry at the thought that this book could help give a woman justification for staying with an abuser. So it's completely unacceptable to me.