num_pages: 240
description: A personal account of the author's struggles with multi-generational depression and postpartum psychosis describes how she and the other women in her Appalachian Pennsylvania family suffered devastating breakdowns after becoming mothers, in a memoir that candidly recounts her own illness and institutionalization. 40,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Hillbilly Gothic: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood
titlecomplete: Hillbilly Gothic: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood
genres: Mental Health, Psychology, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Mental Illness, Parenting
ratings_count: 307
publisher: Free Press