Styron compares his own situation with that of Emma Bovary in Madame Bovary when the desperate Emma seeks help from a parish priest for her madness but receives only platitudes. Styron's first visit with his psychiatrist, Dr. Gold, sends the author on a journey of trial and error with medications and cognitive therapy. The failure of these things to act quickly keeps the depressed person in a state of perpetual anxiety and hopelessness.
Styron recalls clinging desperately to familiar items such as reading glasses and a pen in an attempt to stem the tide of life slipping hopelessly away. Also during this advanced stage of his disease, Styron experienced an overwhelming sense of hopelessness which forced.....
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