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	• The Beast: A Reckoning with Depression Tracy Thompson Putnam Adult, 1995 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 39 reviews
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highly recommended

With her training as a journalist, she turns an objective eye on herself. It is this honesty that gives the book its strength. The portrait she paints of herself is not flattering. She sees the manipulative and deceptive behavior that she carries on in an effort to keep others near her, to secure herself from falling into another episode of depression.

We watch her growth and her setbacks. We go along with her to therapy and to the hospital. It is not an easy book to read; it is painful at times, but it is also a remarkable achievement.

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Good read for those suffering from depression...

What I liked about this book is that it does not offer itself up as a cure or approach to handling depression. It simply walks you through the dark corridors of depression through this one person's experience. I have suffered with depression for several years and I found comfort in this book if only in the knowledge that there was someone else out there who could articulate exactly how I felt. To describe depression and have someone understand who is eternally upbeat is an impossible task. But to know there are others out there who understand...well, this book just helped me deal a little better with this awful illness.

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