suicide." Depression is a national problem, engulfing some ten to fifteen million Americans within

its bitter grasp. In Speaking of sadness, Karp captures the human face of this widespread

affliction as he brings forth his own experience and that of others in a heart felt, personal work.

Speaking of Sadness had a powerful impact on my life. Though the sort of depression that I

faced was not clinical depression, I still learned quite a bit from Karp's own experiences. The

sort of depression I encounter is a result of heavy drug use throughout my high school years, so

it affected my life in a different sort which is very difficult for me to explain. From personal

experience when I have a serious problem I enjoy taking advice from those who have felt my

pain, especially some of my adult friends from church and my youth pastor. Karp has struggled

with depression for the majority of his life so he writes from the heart and his own experiences.

When people write the truth out of their own experiences, it is very easy to gain lasting

Throughout the book Karp included personal interviews with real people

them, but when I was alone in my room, my true feelings emerged. I felt that I couldn't associate

inchoate feelings during which they lacked the vocabulary to label their experience as

seek after a material world that in the end will never bring happiness. Joy and an understanding

concrete as the next day's lecture and as amorphous as the quality of my relationship." (I. P. 6.

"The Two central feelings typifying my depression were frantic anxiety and a sense of

sociopath thinking in even normal people (male custodian.)

afraid to take that step, so I sat alone and suffered with my emptiness until the day came that I

an anxiety disorder, Which I have learned relates closely to depression.

suffer hourly with depression. On some level I can relate to those who struggle with depression.

me a feeling of stability in an insatiable world. Depression is a disease that slowly creeps up on

Realizing that the self is no longer apart of the social world. A feeling of being an outcast from

member or friend wants so badly to care for the depressed sufferer but sometimes depression

People need to come to grips with their illness in order to cope and adapt with the

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