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Hello I want to die please fix me : depression in the first person  Cover Image Book Book

Hello I want to die please fix me : depression in the first person / Anna Mehler Paperny.

Summary:

"In her early-twenties, while thriving in her dream job, enjoying warm familial support and a strong social network of friends and colleagues, Anna found herself trapped by feelings of failure and despair. In September 2011, she made her first attempt to kill herself by ingesting a deadly mix of sleeping pills and antifreeze, landing her in the ICU followed by weeks of enforced detention in two different big-city psych wards. This was Anna's entry point into the labyrinthine psychiatric care system--one that is nominally responsible for providing the best reasonable care to millions of Canadians suffering from severe, life-threatening mental illness. Her first stay in the psych ward--at times horrifying, other times boring, hilarious and absurd--was just the beginning of a long recovery and a journey towards understanding, first-hand, the myriad ways our systems and medical practitioners treat--and fail to treat--a disease that afflicts a full fifth of the population. While trying to be a good patient, Anna cannot help but turn her intrepid journalist's eye on the world around her--in the psych ward, as an outpatient, as a survivor enduring the gruelling ordeal of facing concerned family, friends and co-workers; of finding the right meds, the right therapist; of staying insured and employed. Anna's personal account of life in the shadow of self-obliteration explores in searing detail her individual experience of depression, close encounters with fatal self-harm, and the trials and errors of treatment."--From publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780735272828 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: xiv, 338 pages ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto : Random House Canada, 2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
In the first person -- Treatment attempts -- A kick in the teeth -- In the maze -- A denouement of sorts.
Subject: Paperny, Anna Mehler.
Paperny, Anna Mehler > Mental illness.
Journalists > Canada > Biography.
Depressed persons > Canada > Biography.
Mental health services > Canada.
Depression, Mental > Treatment > Canada.
Genre: Autobiographies.

Available copies

  • 8 of 8 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Fort St. James Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 8 total copies.
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Fort St. James Public Library 362.2097 PAP (Text) 35196001027817 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -


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