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Things That Helped: On Postpartum Depression
Written by Jessica Friedmann
Narrated by Shiromi Arserio
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Things That Helped is a memoir in essays, detailing the Australian writer Jessica Friedmann's recovery from postpartum depression. In each essay she focuses on a separate totemic object-from pho to red lips to the musician Anohni-to tell a story that is both deeply personal and culturally resonant. Drawing on critical theory, popular culture, and her own experience, Friedmann's wide-ranging essays touch on class, race, gender, and sexuality, as well as motherhood, creativity, and mental illness. Occasionally confrontational, but always powerfully moving and beautifully observed, Things That Helped charts her return into the world: a slow and complex process of reassembling what depression fractured, and sometimes broke.
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Jessica Friedmann
Born in 1987, Jessica Friedmann is a writer and editor. Her first essay collection, Things That Helped, was published by Scribe (2017) and FSG (2018).
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Terrible. With the title "Things That Helped: on Postpartum Depression", I expected to learn about how to cope with my PPD but the book was more of a useless biography of the author. I wasted hours on this.
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