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...Ferris isn't actually interested in Tim's disorder as such. This isn't a book about neurology. Ferris is interested in the blast radius around the sickness, the damage it does to Tim and his family. The longer it resists a cure or even a diagnosis, the more dense the walking becomes with multiple meanings, until it's a pulsating black hole at the center of the novel. It could stand for depression, mania, lust, rage, any alien element that lives within a marriage and tries to tear it apart. It could stand for the author's compulsion...
...your depression is treatable? I have. At first I was overmedicated by a psychiatrist - going through so many combinations of medications - and that made me very afraid of trusting psychiatrists and drugs. So I went from that extreme to doing everything holistically and hoping yoga, acupuncture and meditation would cure me. What I've found now is a happy medium between...
...brain as profound and mysterious, full of demons and neuroses and fascinating dreams that I can bore my co-workers with. But when you're fighting a phobia, CBT is your weapon of choice. It's reliable and well documented. Insurance companies love it. Often you can cure a phobia like mine in about 12 sessions...
...sent patients into bouts of euphoria. For schizophrenics, of course, that only made their condition worse. But researchers soon realized it made their pill perfect for patients with depression. On first trying it in 1955, some patients found themselves newly sociable and energetic and called the drug a "miracle cure." The drug, called imipramine and marketed as Tofranil in 1958, was quickly followed by dozens of rivals - known as tricyclics for their three-ring chemical structure - as drug companies rushed to take advantage of a burgeoning market. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
Fighting for a Health Care Cure...