Take a photo of a barcode or cover
3 reviews for:
The Shame of Me, One Man's Journey to Depression and Back
Jeffery Flanagan, Ryan Lefebvre
3.6 AVERAGE
3 reviews for:
The Shame of Me, One Man's Journey to Depression and Back
Jeffery Flanagan, Ryan Lefebvre
3.6 AVERAGE
I applaud Ryan for sharing this heartbreaking story. I was concerned though, that his HCP did not seem to put him on stronger doses of medication to help him at the beginning. He seemed to be a high risk for suicide. Lexipro 10mg is not a high dose and perhaps another medication would have helped him. Just my thoughts.
Great story of overcoming depression. Sports figures are human too and Lefebvre's words have power and meaning behind them.
I liked this book for many reasons. One of the main reasons is that Ryan Lefebvre is a local celebrity whom I'd love to meet someday. Another is that he's a public male figure sharing his story of pain and hurt and ultimate recovery and redemption. This world has so many women who are willing to share their stories; it needs more men. I also appreciated Ryan's bare honesty and unapologetic attitude about many of the things he describes. He doesn't apologize for who he is, and I got the sense that it was difficult for him to write the story without doing so, which made me appreciate it all the more. Finally, I very deeply enjoyed hearing about other local celebrities (especially from the Royals organization) he is connected to, and, near the end of the book, I got a shocking pleasure from finding out he is connected to people I actually know personally.
Because of all these personal reasons, I probably wouldn't recommend this book to just anyone, but if you live in Kansas City and are a Royals fan, you'd probably enjoy it. It gets a *little* preachy and self-helpy at the end, which I could've certainly done without, and I definitely could have helped him out editorially way more than whoever DID do his editing. The number of mistakes in the book was unnerving and irksome by the time I reached the end. I also felt I could have helped organizationally or developmentally. At times it felt like things flowed really well, and at other times it felt piecemeal, and some of the chapters seemed inappropriately titled for what they contained.
But overall, this is a book I'm glad I read, and now, of course, my hope of one day meeting Ryan Lefebvre is that much stronger. (Of course, if the meeting included Denny Matthews and Bob Davis [and maybe one of my favorite Royals players like Frenchy, Hos, or Escobar], I certainly wouldn't complain about that!)
Because of all these personal reasons, I probably wouldn't recommend this book to just anyone, but if you live in Kansas City and are a Royals fan, you'd probably enjoy it. It gets a *little* preachy and self-helpy at the end, which I could've certainly done without, and I definitely could have helped him out editorially way more than whoever DID do his editing. The number of mistakes in the book was unnerving and irksome by the time I reached the end. I also felt I could have helped organizationally or developmentally. At times it felt like things flowed really well, and at other times it felt piecemeal, and some of the chapters seemed inappropriately titled for what they contained.
But overall, this is a book I'm glad I read, and now, of course, my hope of one day meeting Ryan Lefebvre is that much stronger. (Of course, if the meeting included Denny Matthews and Bob Davis [and maybe one of my favorite Royals players like Frenchy, Hos, or Escobar], I certainly wouldn't complain about that!)