This is about the author who as a reporter surviving "The Beast" known as depression.
Thompson did not survive to write a book about "madness" or about twentieth-century victimixation. Instead, like a good reporter, she kept notes and asked questions. The result is a lyrical yet dispassionate account of a life;ong battle to survive a mental illness. It chronicles her struggle to reclai her career, her growing intellectual interest in depression, and her sobering realization of the toll her illness took on the people who loved her.
Thompson did not survive to write a book about "madness" or about twentieth-century victimixation. Instead, like a good reporter, she kept notes and asked questions. The result is a lyrical yet dispassionate account of a life;ong battle to survive a mental illness. It chronicles her struggle to reclai her career, her growing intellectual interest in depression, and her sobering realization of the toll her illness took on the people who loved her.
