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Paperny, Anna Mehler.
Paperny, Anna Mehler.
Paperny, Anna Mehler -- Mental illness.
Crisis intervention (Mental health services)
Depressed persons -- Mental health services -- Canada.
Depressed persons -- Medical care.
Depression, Mental -- Treatment.
Journalists -- Canada -- Biography.
Depressed persons -- Biography.
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Hello! I want to die, please fix me : depression in the first person /
Anna
Mehler
Paperny
.
by
Paperny
,
Anna
Mehler
.
Random House Canada, 2019.
Call #:
362.20971 P214h
Subjects
Paperny
,
Anna
Mehler
.
Paperny
,
Anna
Mehler
-- Mental illness.
Crisis intervention (Mental health services)
Depressed persons -- Mental health services -- Canada.
Depressed persons -- Medical care.
Depression, Mental -- Treatment.
Journalists -- Canada -- Biography.
Depressed persons -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780735272828 (pbk.)
Description:
xiv, 338 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-329) and index.
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.
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