About this Item:

Depression can be a havoc-wreaking illness that masquerades as personal failing & hijacks your life. After a major suicide attempt in her early twenties, Paperny resolved to put her reporter?s skills to use to get to know her enemy, setting off on a journey to understand her condition, the dizzying array of medical treatments on offer, & a medical profession in search of answers.

Charting the way depression wrecks so many lives, she maps competing schools of therapy, pharmacology, cutting-edge medicine, the pill-popping pitfalls of long-term treatment, the glaring unknowns & the institutional shortcomings that both patients & practitioners are up against. She interviews leading medical experts across the US & Canada, from psychiatrists to neurologists, brain-mapping pioneers to family practitioners, & others dabbling in strange hypotheses, and shares compassionate conversations with fellow sufferers.

'Hello, I Want to Die Please Fix Me' tracks Anna?s quest for knowledge & her desire to get well. Impeccably reported, it is a profoundly compelling story about the human spirit and the myriad ways we treat (and fail to treat) the disease that accounts for more years swallowed up by disability than any other in the world.

Product Specifications:

• Publisher: The Experiment (March 31, 2020)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 352 pages
• ISBN-10: 1615194924
• ISBN-13: 978-1615194926
• Item Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Dimensions: 6 x 1.15 x 9 inches