Poetry became a lifeline for Rachel Kelly in the depths of her depression. Scene in an Interior, 19th century, by Francois-Marius Granet. Photograph: Heritage Picture Partnership Ltd/Alamy
1 horror of depression is how walled-in it tends to make the sufferer feel. Tips from outside can appear meaningless perhaps the greatest gift a depression memoir can offer, for that reason, is the small comfort of comradeship, the reassurance that the author has walked the very same dark path and survived. Rachel Kelly’s memoir goes a single greater: to an account of her personal shockingly sudden descent into depression in the midst of a seemingly fulfilled lifestyle, she adds a assortment of the poetry that helped her articulate one thing of her despair.
Kelly, a journalist and mom of five, describes the fierce battle to keep an outward semblance of normality, even as her grip on her personal sanity crumbles and the effort needed to keep the fiction of her competence at operate and home pushes her further in the direction of catastrophe. Even though she tries a selection of treatment options, her recovery is a slow and painstaking rebuilding of her shattered self, in which the solace of poetry frequently gets a lifeline. Black Rainbow is a moving addition to the physique of depression literature, written with compassion and insight.
Black Rainbow review poetry in a moving account of depression
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