Sorrow's Web : Overcoming the Legacy of Maternal Depression
Author: Anne Sheffield
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ISBN: 0684870851
Publisher: Free Press (10 October, 2000)
Sales Rank: 255,231
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 out of 5
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Rating: 4 out of 5
Enormously helpful
Sheffield's biggest contribution may offering an answer to those who have struggled with chronic depression: "Why have I always felt so strange? Where did this all come from?" In other words, the fallout from living with a mother who is depressed -- even someone who has never been identified as "depressed" -- can have lifelong consequences. The book will probably convince those who have been reluctant to get treatment to do so. Much of the rest is a standard round-up of recent literature and the usual advice on what to do when you are depressed --take medication, find a therapist - maybe. Despite its failings and its occasionally cutesy writing, it's probably the book about depression that has been the most personally helpful. I'd give this five stars for the idea and three for the execution.
Rating: 5 out of 5
This is the Book I Needed to Read Decades Ago
Sorrow's Web -- the book I've needed to read for decades. Ms. Sheffield deals with the subject of growing up with a depressive mother in such an insightful, intelligent, and honest way! I found recognition, understanding and comfort from her combination of the personal and the more "scientific" information. I urge mothers, daughters, sons -- and, yes -- fathers, to read this book. It has the potential profoundly affect your life and the life of those you love most.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Read this book!
This is an extraordinary book -- sensitive, revealing and READABLE. I only wish I had it thirty years ago! Similar Products
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