"Daphne Wade is more than just Brad Steel's wife-to-be and the mother of his unborn child. She is his destiny. Fate brought them together, and he vows to protect her. His determination does not waver when he learns a secret about his bride - a secret she herself doesn't know. Daphne has loving parents, good friends, a man who adores her, a beautiful child growing inside her, and freedom from her anxiety and depression. But is it real, or all an illusion?...

"After the death of her beloved twin brother, Felix, and the breakup with her longtime lover, Nathan, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment to alleviate her suffocating depression. But the treatment has unexpected effects, and Greta finds herself transported to the lives she might have had if she'd been born in different eras."--from publisher's description.

A graceful and penetrating memoir interweaving the author's descent into depression with a medical and cultural history of this illness.

Camila cannot wait for her trip to Chiapas. Yes, she must work there and write an article for her magazine, but the recent death of her child has left her deeply depressed, and she needs to start fresh. In Chiapas, she is torn between reconciling her past and the possibility of starting anew. This is a tender portrait of a woman capable of facing her own contradictions.

"What can a fortysomething childless woman do? Bored with her life and feeling stuck, MIa Kankimäki leaves her job, sells her apartment, and decides to travel the world, following the paths of her 'guardian angels'--explorers and artists from history who have long inspired her. She flies to Tanzania and then to Kenya to see where Karen Blixen—of Out of Africa—fame lived in the 1920s. In Japan, Mia attempts to cure her depression while researching...

Michael, a hospital janitor, takes desperate measures when his wife Ester falls into a deep depression after the death of their son.

"A poignant first memoir of how the author's relationship with her dog saved her from suicidal depression describes her unsuccessful work with therapists and loved ones before she adopted a Golden Retriever puppy who became a loyal companion throughout her difficult recovery,"--NoveList.

"This Close to Happy is the first account to endeavor to tell the story of what it feels to suffer a lifetime's worth of clinical depression from the inside out and from a woman's point of view"-- "Despair is always described as dull," writes Daphne Merkin, "when the truth is that despair has a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottled silver." This Close to Happy--Merkin's rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer...