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A gifted and audacious writer confronts her lifelong struggle with melancholy and her search for release This Close to Happy is the exceptional, vividly personal bill of what it feels as though to have problems with clinical melancholy, written from a woman's perspective and enlightened by an serious understanding of the implications of the disease over a lifetime. Taking off from essays on melancholy she's written for The New Yorker and The NY Times Magazine, Daphne Merkin casts her attention back again to her beginnings to attempt to sort out the root factors behind her affliction. She recounts the travails of growing up in a large, affluent family where there was a paucity of love and essentials such as food and clothing despite the presence of your chauffeur and a make meals. She goes on to recount her early hospitalization for melancholy in poignant detail as well as her complicated relationship with her mercurial, withholding mom. On the way Merkin also discusses her early redemptive love of reading and continuous introduction as a writer. She eventually marries, has a kid, and suffers severe postpartum melancholy, for which she is again hospitalized. Merkin also discusses her sessions to various therapists and psychopharmocologists, which enable her to probe the causes of depression and its own various treatments. The reserve ends in this current, where the writer has discovered how to navigate her melancholy, if not "cure" it, after a third hospitalization in the wake of her mother's fatality.
