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Loading... Cheer Up Love: Adventures in depression with the Crab of Hate (edition 2017)by Susan Calman (Author)
Work InformationCheer Up, Love: Adventures in Depression with the Crab of Hate by Susan Calman (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. In this memoir, Susan Calman talks about her experiences with depression (personified here as the Crab of Hate): how it developed, how it has affected her relationships, and how she manages it on a daily basis. I related strongly to her experiences with the paranoid and anxious sides of depression in particular, although we are a decade and an entire ocean apart in age and geography. She writes with honesty about herself, taking responsibility for what she can and emphasizing the personal aspects of her experience (i.e., not making her personal experience universal). If you’ve ever seen her on QI or heard her on Radio 4, you may want to read this — it is illuminating and about the most feel-good book you can read about depression. ( ) no reviews | add a review
'DEEPLY HONEST, SURPRISINGLY HILARIOUS AND UPLIFTING' The Pool 'HEART-WARMING: UNMISSABLE' Damian Barr, Metro Susan Calman is a well-known comedian and writer who has appeared on countless radio and television programmes from The News Quiz and Just a Minute on BBC Radio 4, presented Armchair Detectives and Secret Scotland, hosts the podcast Mrs Brightside and stole the nation's hearts in STRICTLY COME DANCING 2017. Her solo stand up show, Susan Calman is Convicted, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and dealt with subjects like the death penalty, appearance and depression. It was the overwhelming and positive reaction to the show she wrote about mental health that made Susan want to write a more detailed account of surviving depression when you're the world's most negative and anxious person. The Crab of Hate is the personification of Calman's depression and her version of the notorious Black Dog. A constant companion all her life, the Crab has provided her with the best, and very worst of times. This is a very personal and affecting memoir of how, after many years and with a lot of help and talking, Susan has embraced her dark side and realised that she can be the most joyous sad person you'll ever meet. CHEER UP LOVE IS FUNNY, POIGNANT AND (HOPEFULLY) INFORMATIVE. IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO TALK AND TO REALISE YOU ARE NOT ALONE. *If you loved Cheer Up Love, try Sunny Side Up, Susan's Calmanifesto of Happiness* No library descriptions found. |
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