Reddit reviews Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

Upvoted for truth.

Darkness Visible by William Styron is the best attempt at an explanation to people who've never experienced the 'flame' before. Check it out if you're interested.

Depression is a disease, and like cancer, it doesn't give a damn whether it affects people with wonderful lives or with shitty lives. You are falling into the trap of the stigma of depression that it somehow should only affect people who have problems. You may have been lurking on this site, but you haven't done much research about depression itself.

First I would suggest sitting down and watching all of this video: Stanford's Sapolsky On Depression

Then check out these books:
The Noonday Demon

Darkness Visible

Undercurrents

and read through these websites: nami and dbsa

You worded it fine I actually realized I did not address it correctly but then I don't have bipolar - I just have the depression.

Please share what you write.

Here is a book I just finished that helped me to start processing my illness http://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Visible-A-Memoir-Madness/dp/0679643524/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342655537&sr=8-1&keywords=darkness+styron

You may like it, you may not :) The author uses some pretty heavy duty words so be ready for a dictionary