Deep Has a book ever managed to actually make you depressed (like, induce a depressive episode, not just sad while reading it)??

[ChemicallyEnhanced]

I do have depression anyway (Major Depressive Disorder, Severe, w/ Psychosis) but I remember reading Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel (by far the best book on depression ever IMO...I very highly recommend it for anyone with depression, or anyone wishing to understand it) and it actually managed to induce a depressive episode in me.

Last Summer I read the novel A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara and it made me suicidal. In a very literal sense. FOr the next 2-3 months I was very seriously considering taking my own life.

 

[jasperkent]

Not depression per se, but attempting to read It Can't Happen Here (1935) by Sinclair Lewis caused me so much existential angst that I had to put the book down less than halfway through. The parallels to American politics today are astonishing.

I probably won't be able to finish that book until and unless Trumpism dies.

It Can't Happen Here - Wikipedia

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[ChemicallyEnhanced]

Not depression per se, but attempting to read It Can't Happen Here (1935) by Sinclair Lewis caused me so much existential angst that I had to put the book down less than halfway through. The parallels to American politics today are astonishing.

I probably won't be able to finish that book until and unless Trumpism dies.

It Can't Happen Here - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Trump is both elderly and obese so fingers crossed he dies soon and eventually the MAGAts will STFU

I'll definitely check that book out, though, thanks

 

[jasperkent]

...eventually the MAGAts will STFU

I hope you are correct. A lot of his supporters are young and healthy (well, physically healthy).

The worst part? I had tried to read it back during his first administration. Things are much worse now.

 

[JackARoe]

Read Ishmael some 20 years ago and it depressed me for a few months. Good to know I almost completely forgot about it. It is a good book, just something depressed me.

 

[ChemicallyEnhanced]

I hope you are correct. A lot of his supporters are young and healthy (well, physically healthy).

The worst part? I had tried to read it back during his first administration. Things are much worse now.

I tend to hope it's like a vampire thing. Ya know, kill the head vampire and the rest just kind wither away?

EDIT: FOR LEGALITIES SAKE (lol): that is a METAPHOR. "kill" the vampire means Trump DIES OF NATURAL CAUSES (hopefully in great discomfort)

 

[aftershocknrock]

Every book we did in school made me homicidal, romeo an cuntin juliet absolute pure gibberish, the teacher had to patch the book an make us watch the film (the modern one) cause nobody could read the fucking ye old english. Still absolute pish, was actually glad they done themselves in.
Another GCSE English topic (thats like highscool ) not a book but a poem. Charge of the Light Brigade......we had to read this 3 times a week an talk about it the whole class for months this culminated with the teacher being assaulted with a chair (same thing happened in history, and i got banned from maths for battering the cunt in front of me with a chair, i had to sit in a supply cupboard during maths haha). As far as i can tell its about a bunch of soldiers with special needs and the tactical skills of a herd of brain damaged cattle who intentionally ride into a kill box and get slaughtered by the enemy.

One book that thoroughly depressed me but that i highly recommend you read is Gomorrah. It is about how entrenched the Italian Mafia clans are in every aspect of life in Italy and all over the world and the devastating effect of these organisations on society both in the underworld and legit business. The author primarily focuses on the clans and affiliates of the Camorra (from Napoli) but he touches on clans from all over italy and beyond. Fantastic book but so heart breaking to realise just how much damage these fucking people are doing. The author has been in hiding since the books release because he has several open contracts on his life.