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"A brilliant combination of wit, irony, and despair...."Undercurrents "is absolutely as good as it gets."--"Los Angeles Times""Full of unexpected delights...honest, hilarious, full of hope."--"Dallas Morning News""Humor, candor, and a respect for the power of image and metaphor to heal."--"Philadelphia Inquirer""A moving and engaging journal....I found myself laughing out loud."--"Washington Post""A convincing testament to the inexorable cruelty of depression and a frightening reminder of its unprejudiced choice of victims."--"New York Times Book Review""An absolutely absorbing read."--"USA Today"
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This is the compelling true-life story of a psychotherapist who suffered clinical depression and agreed eventually to undergo electro shock therapy. The book through humorous, heartbreaking and harrowing diary entries lays bare the depths and dimension of severe clinical depression.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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As a person diagnosed and living with major depression, I found solace and comfort in reading and re-reading this book. It was comforting to know that I was not alone. When I was unable to put words to the feelings I was having, Manning did it for me. While in treatment, when recovery seemed too slow,reading this book helped keep me focused.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Martha Manning beautifully articulates the emotions and thoughts that many people have who are struggling with major clinical depression. Not only does she make you feel understood and comforted by sharing her experience...she also causes you to laugh out loud by gently poking fun at some of the absurdities encountered by patients in their search for treatment. This book sparked a lot of revealing conversations between the members of my family who suffer from the same illness, and helped some of my friends understand what is going on behind the scenes and inside my head. It also provided a common ground to share a laugh...and if anything is essential to getting through a depressive episode, it is a sense of humor.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This work takes the reader through the experience of Clinical Major Depression vividly. Lyrical prose describes a wonderful person beset with a horrible disease. I've read this book three times--Martha Manning's journey sounds so much like my own, through the bowels of despair and apathy--and given it to friends to help them understand why I can't just "snap out of it", or not act irritable, or not want to just sit and stare or sit and sleep; why I stop eating; why I cry; and then why it's worse when I stop crying. This is a wonderful, wonderful, empathic book that does more to explain depression to others than a dozen manuals could ever do.
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Great book -- Undercurrents is a must read
I picked up Undercurrents one day at work (I work at a large book chain in Canada), because of the intriguing cover & the style in which it was written. Read more
Published on 7 Feb 1999
An excellent description of the depression experience.
Martha Manning's book Undercurrents is an excellent description of the experience of major depression. Read more
Published on 6 May 1998
Graceful and Compelling
A powerful account of a battle with depression that moved me to tears, I finished this book in one afternoon while seeing myself in the pages. Read more
Published on 3 April 1998
A Dangerous book recommending a dangerous type of "therapy"
As a survivor much damaged by multiple electroshocks inflicted upon me against my will, I am frightened that people could read this book and , thinking that electroshock might help... Read more
Published on 14 Mar 1998
excellent
This book is a must for those in clinical depression. She presents a real human being, a psychologist, wife, mother of a daughter, catholic, who descends into depression at 38. Read more
Published on 6 Feb 1998
Touching and meaningful
I was given this book to read by my therapist as I am a sufferer of manic depression. I love to journal and this book is written in journal form. Read more
Published on 11 Dec 1997
great book
As a psychiatrist, I have often recommended this book to patients, especially to help loved ones understand the profound difference between clinical depression and feeling down in... Read more
Published on 6 Sep 1997
Worth reading twice
Undercurrents was surprisingly light reading for such a detailed look into the horror of depression. Read more
Published on 2 Feb 1997
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