Underneath the lemon tree
Subtitle: a memoir of depression and recovery
By: by Mark Rice-Oxley
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781408703786
Subjects: Journalists; Depressive Disorder; Mental Depression; Biography; Popular works; Rehabilitation; Depressed persons
Description: On paper, things looked good for Mark Rice-Oxley: wife, children, fulfilling job. But then, at his 40th birthday party, his whole world crumbled as he succumbed to depression ... How many men do you know who have been through periods when their lives haven't seemed right? How badly askew were things for them? Many men suffer from depression yet it is still a subject that is taboo. Men often don't visit the doctor, or they don't want to face up to feelings of weakness and vulnerability. By telling his story, Mark Rice-Oxley hopes it will enable others to tell theirs. In this intensely moving memoir he retraces the months of his utmost despair, revisiting a landscape from which at times he felt he would never escape. Written with lyricism and poignancy, Mark captures the visceral nature of this most debilitating of illnesses with a frightening clarity, while at the same time offering a sympathetic and dispassionate view of what is happening, and perhaps why. This is not a self-help book but a memoir that is brimful of experience, understanding and hope for all those who read it. It is above all honest, touching and surprisingly optimistic.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: BREAKDOWN; title: 1.Beginnings; title: 2.Where were you while we were getting highly paid jobs?; title: 3.Is Dad all there is?; title: 4.Breakdown; title: DEPRESSION; title: 5.The shrink; title: 6.The thought police; title: 7.Lethargy; title: 8.Mood-doom; title: 9.Sleep; title: RECOVERY; title: 10.Mindful; title: 11.Books; title: 12.The chart; title: 13.Relapse; title: 14.The onion.