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A review by niconorico
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron
4.0
Some of his conclusions exclude those of us with more persistent forms of depression, but I appreciate Styron for providing such an accessible memoir for family and the like.
A lot of his observations are colored by his own brand of depression which didn't manifest until age 60, and which varies in intensity at different times of day. He assumes that everyone with depression has this variance and that all depression has a fixed end date. In my experience, there's a point you leave hell but hell doesn't really leave you. With medication and therapy it becomes manageable, we learn what light is like, we get others out of hell; that's the goal.
A lot of his observations are colored by his own brand of depression which didn't manifest until age 60, and which varies in intensity at different times of day. He assumes that everyone with depression has this variance and that all depression has a fixed end date. In my experience, there's a point you leave hell but hell doesn't really leave you. With medication and therapy it becomes manageable, we learn what light is like, we get others out of hell; that's the goal.