Cover of Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface

Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface

This is the memoir of an ordinary woman—a mother, a daughter, a psychologist, a wife—who tells the tale of her spiraling descent into a severe, debilitating depression. Undercurrents pioneers a new literature about women and depression that offers a vision of action instead of victimhood, hope instead of despair.

Setting
USA
Mood
emotional
Audience
adult

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