Shadows in the Sun: Healing from Depression and Finding the Light Within
Imagine growing up in a culture that had no understanding or treatment for a serious illness. Compound that with growing up to view that affliction as a sign of weakness and great shame. Depression is such an illness and it crosses all cultures in countries across the globe. Author Gayathri Ramprasad grew up in a fairy tale like childhood in India. Her parents were a good balance of rich tradition and contemporary forward thinking that pushed their children to go beyond a life in India. But pressures to excel seemingly triggered low self esteem and feelings of worthlessness in Gayathri when she failed a qualifying class that was needed to go on to college. In Ramprasad’s deeply personal Shadows in the Sun readers follow her spiral into a dark descent of depression. Struggling with feelings of doubt and being unworthy, her parents were told she was merely a teenager acting out, dealing with the typical teenage angst. When her conditions worsened, her parents told her to pray to the gods. Living in a country where depression isn’t diagnosed or labeled, her idyllic childhood and adolescence progressed into a tortured coming of age, and then beyond into her adulthood. When her parents arrange a marriage to a virtual stranger, Gayathri is terrified that he will find out about her illness.
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Star Count | 5/5 |
Format | Trade |
Page Count | 240 pages |
Publisher | Hazelden |
Publish Date | 2014-Mar-04 |
ISBN | 9781616494759 |
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Issue | May 2014 |
Category | Biographies & Memoirs |
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