| Description |
247 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Riding with the top down / Beverly Donofrio -- Suicide, a love story / Mark S. King -- Three girls, laughing / Beth Bornstein -- Medication makes me whole / Angela M. Giles Patel -- Bye-bye crayola / Caroline Leavitt -- Death, depression, and other capital d words / Marika Rosenthal Delan -- Colors at the piano / Linda Joy Meyers -- Deal breaker / Lira Maywood -- Slip of the noose / Jimmy Camp -- Body of grief / Zoe FitzGerald Carter -- If I love you, you'll leave / Debra LoGuerico DeAngelo -- Hello, catastrophe / Elisabeth Rosner -- Unraveling / Hollye Dexter -- Letters I will never send / Alexa Rosalsky -- Nothing helps, except love / C.O. Moed -- Search for the silver cup / Betsy Graziani Fasbinder -- The merry-go-round / Mark Morgan -- Thorazine / Karen Lynch -- Learning to sit still / Chlo Caldwell -- Depression is a patient stalker / Ruth Pennebaker -- Allies in the sky / David Lacy -- Off with the fairies / Christine Kehl O'Hagan -- Learning to love my depression / Sherry Amatenstein -- Skirting the abyss / Barbara Abercrombie -- God's perfect child / Patti Linsky -- Iris wake-up call / Kitty Sheehan -- The dialectics of suicide / Samantha White -- Forty-four steps / Kathryn Rountree -- Upon being told to be true to myself / Jenna Stone -- Viral goodbyes / Matt Ebert -- Someday this pain may be useful / Jennifer Pastiloff -- Riding shotgun / judywhite -- Surviving the spiral / Regina Anavy -- A kind of quiet most people have forgotten / Pam L. Houston. |
| Summary |
"Shades of Blue collects the perspectives of well-known writers on depression, sadness, suicide, and being blue, through stories as personal as they are unforgettable. The silent epidemic of depression affects millions of people and takes dozens of lives everyday, while our culture grapples with a stigma against open discussion of mental health issues. Editor Amy Ferris has collected these stories to illuminate the truth behind that stigma and offer compassion, solidarity, and hope for all those who have felt blue. Contributors to Shades of Blue include: Barbara Abercrombie Sherry Amatenstein Chloe Caldwell Jimmy Camp Debra DeAngelo Marika Rosenthal Delan Hollye Dexter Beverly Donofrio Beth Bornstein Dunnington Matthew Ebert Betsy Graziani Fasbinder Zoe FitzGerald Carter Pam Houston David Lacy Patti Linsky Mark S. King Caroline Leavitt Karen Lynch Lira Maywood C.O. Moed Mark Morgan Linda Joy Myers Christine Kehl O'Hagan Jennifer Pastiloff Ruth Pennebaker Angela Giles Patel Alexa Rosalsky Elizabeth Rosner Katie Rountree Kitty Sheehan Jenna Stone judywhite Samantha White Shades of Blue brings the conversation around depression and sadness into the open with real, first-hand accounts of depression and mental health issues, offering empathy to all those who have been affected by these issues. It's time to scream out loud against this silent annihilator: You are not alone"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Depression, Mental.
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Mental health.
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| ISBN |
9781580055956 (paperback) |
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