Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me

✍ Scribed by Anna Mehler Paperny

• Book ID: 100541651
• Publisher: Random House of Canada
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 242 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0735272840

✦ Synopsis

A vibrant, compelling memoir from a remarkable young woman that bravely reveals the real-life havoc wrought by depression and the urgent search for solutions. Illuminating, completely engaging --it's essential reading for all since we all know someone whose life, family or friends are touched by the disease that directly afflicts a fifth of Canadians.
In her early twenties, while thriving in her dream job and enjoying warm familial support and a strong social network, award-winning journalist Anna Mehler Paperny found herself trapped by feelings of failure and despair. Her first suicide attempt--ingesting a deadly mix of sleeping pills and antifreeze--landed her in the ICU, followed by weeks of enforced detention that ran the gamut of horrifying, boring, hilarious, and absurd. This was Anna's entry into the labyrinthine psychiatric care system responsible for providing care to millions of Canadians.
As she struggled to survive the psych ward and...