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We urgently want new methods to grasp and deal with melancholy
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Chemically Imbalanced
Joanna Moncrieff (Flint Books)
Joanna Moncrieff was a “precocious 14-year-old” when she skilled “a interval of what might need been referred to as melancholy”. She didn’t search remedy, nonetheless. “I didn’t wish to take something that may cease me studying my philosophy books.” Fortunately, she modified faculties, met “a stunning boyfriend” and was completely satisfied once more. “I count on my resistance was colored by my mother and father’ common stoicism,” she writes in her new ebook, Chemically Imbalanced: The making and unmaking of the serotonin fable.
Moncrieff cautions that “none of…