Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me

This memoir-meets-investigative report takes a frank look at the havoc-wrecking illness of depression that masquerades as personal failure. The author, after a major suicide attempt, uses her reporter's skills to explore a dizzying array of medical treatments and the institutional shortcomings both patients and practitioners face. With interviews from leading medical experts across the US and Canada, this book compassionately highlights the quest for knowledge and desire to get well in the face of depression, the disease that accounts for more years swallowed up by disability than any other in the world.