/lit/ - Literature

>>16689025
Diary

>>16689046
mine, desu

>>16689025
be more specific

Booooohooo my neurochemicals hurt wahhhwahh i can't get up ablooooo abloo I'm gonna feel dis way 4rver :'''(

>>16689025
IN THE JAWS OF THE BLACK DOGS by John Bentley Mays

>In this courageous memoir, John Bentley Mays gives us a riveting account of what it is to live in the shadow of debilitating depression.

>Weaving intimate recollections with excerpts from the diaries he kept for thirty years, Mays illuminates the struggle that leads to breakdown and the uneasy truce achieved through psychotherapy. Along the way, he offers provocative commentary on the allure of cure, the cultural scripts of normality, and the distorting mirror of clinical language.

>A literary tour de force that began with an award winning essay, In the Jaws of the Black Dogs is not an objective analysis composed from the safety of hindsight. It is a writer's attempt to evoke the silent and distorting malignancy--as well as the moments of reprieve--of the only life he has ever known. Above all, he offers readers hope: Although the black dogs cannot be entirely avoided, humor and the love and understanding of family and friends can keep the dogs at bay.

>"This book is a life with the black dogs of depression. I have written it in a clearing bounded by thickets roamed by the killing dogs, sometimes wondering, in the writing, whether I would complete it before they returned on silent paws to snatch the text and me away. For the depressed can never be sure we can finish anything we begin, or indeed certain of anything, except the black dogs' eventual return, and their terrible circling of the clearing's edge.

>"There are a great many books about depression. This is not one of them. It is pain written, not observed; a depressive writer's writing, a testament transcribed from wounded flesh to paper in the clearing, before the black dogs' inevitable return."

My by Desu Diary.

>>16689055
wtf tho, that 4 real?

>>16689055
Literally me. The cat btw, not the loser crying about his presumably shit life.

Books about obsession?

anything by david foster wallace

Noonday Demon by solomon

>>16689169
moby dick

any book by Hemingway

>>16689086
bloooooooo I'm the gay crying guy i want your life ablooooooo tell me the books wnloooooo the books to blooooo stop me from bloooooooing

>>16689055
Edit it so that he’s watching the screen through his crossed fingers

>>16689025
my fucking diary desu

>>16689066
Into the reading list it goes. Thanks for you recommendation, my friend.

>>16689254
very funny now give me a real book

The Tunnel is said to be depressing. It wasn't depressing to me though.