Brooke ’s Reviews > Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression > Status Update

Read “On Living Behind Bars” by Nancy Mairs instead of going to bed. Highly recommend, even though I disagree with many of her insights and find her downright unlikable and reprehensible at parts (perhaps because I have some sense of moral superiority that no circumstances warrant cheating). Interesting themes of gender and culture on depression.

Absolute soul-crushing sadness is back so had to her out again. 🫡

Cannot recommend Noontime by Lauren Slater enough.

Finally picking up reading again after finals. Favorites thus far are the introductory poem, A Delicious Placebo, and Poodle Bed. I feel like they capture that emergence is as much of a mystery as the descent. Favorite quote from the last essay I read: In vanishing, my self took literature with it—and when the fragments of my personality began to cohere again, literature came back with it.