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 enlarge | Author: Matthew Johnstone
Publisher: Robinson Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: £6.99
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 1272
Media: Paperback
Pages: 48
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 6.5 x 0.3
ISBN: 1845295897
EAN: 9781845295899
ASIN: 1845295897
Publication Date: May 24, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW - ***Delivery usually * 2 - 3 * working days - From Aphrohead of SOUTHPORT, Lancs, uk *** . Priority Airmail used Worldwide on International orders. Thanks from all at Aphrohead.
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Brilliant October 28, 2007
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This book says it all in a very simple way, and gives people who don't suffer from depression an idea of what it is like to live with. For loved ones, friends or family, who don't suffer, this book offers a glimpse into what can be a very lonely place for those that are suffering. This book can be read in about 5 minutes, page to page, but it says what a 300 page book says, with pictures and clear simple statements. So much simpler for loved ones and friends to understand quickly but with understanding.
It also helps people who do suffer see that they are not alone and that depression is something that can be lived with.
I loved it.
Expresses in pictures what words struggle to June 11, 2007
52 out of 52 found this review helpful
I couldn't agree more with the previous reviewer. This is a fantastic book - helpful personally and for lending. It is one of those books that you can easily put in the had of someone in the midst of the darkest of moments without feeling that it will be too pushy, overwhelming, bossy or wordy.
I'm not actually a great believer in the adage that a picture is worth more than 1000 words. For they have different functions and work best in different contexts. But the greatest art can brilliantly capture the full reality of life, with all its visceral emotions and heady passions as well as its bleak despair and lostness. Now the pictures in this book are not exactly great art as such and you wouldn't expect to find them in a posh gallery. But they DO capture the reality of depression - in such a way as to say 'i know how you feel' without overtones of being sickeningly glib and condescending. For Matthew Johnstone is clearly someone who knows what it feels like - he's been there and still battles.
So when someone is really under the storm-clouds, they can at least point to some of the individual pages in this book, and without fuss, struggles or even words, immediately articulate what it's like. That can only be good for those struggling to battle and those struggling to love those who battle.
Brilliant.
Brilliant June 9, 2007
32 out of 32 found this review helpful
I adore this book! I'm suffering from depression, have been for a few years, and I find it difficult to express in words how I feel. These pictures really sum it up for me. It reminds me that I'm not alone, others feel the same too. I've been making my closest friends read this so they can see.
The only thing, for me, is that I have no happy ending yet. It says if you take the right steps it will pass, but this isn't true for me.
But I've seen nothing like this before, and I'll continue buying it for people.
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