Posted by Squiggles on August 2, 2005, at 16:24:55 [reposted on August 3, 2005, at 3:23:58 | original URL]
In reply to Re: William Styron and his dark journey, posted by Declan on August 2, 2005, at 16:15:33
> Reading the book certainly made me nervous about taking Halcion. I was just taking a tiny bit (1/2 -1 tab), but nothing terrible happened. His description of friends coming to visit and how agonising it was for him have stayed with me. Also his depression, like my mother's, was pretty unresponsive to any treatments and followed its own mysterious path, maybe (just speculating) only improving when some internal limit had been reached. Pain? Exhaustion? Ability to remember?
> DeclanI was also impressed by the major factors
which he considered to be significant to his
depression:- alcohol
- psychoanalytic approach to a brain disease
- the doctors' archaic analysis of depression
as something in the "sadness" range, rather
than something requiring medical intervention;
He attributes his recovery to hospitilization
and antidepressants, his manic-depressive friend's help who escaped suicide through lithium.Like Dr. Torrey, i think he shows a preference for
serious medical intervention in treating
depression as you would treat any other serious
physical and critical illness.Squiggles
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