7.6 /10 1 Votes
Country United States Pages 176 Originally published 13 April 2005 Page count 176 | 3.8/5 Goodreads Language English ISBN 1-4013-0789-2 Genre Picture book | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Adaptations My Depression: The Up And Down And Up Of It (2014) Similar The four of us, At Play: Teaching Teenager, Dreamtective, Jewish girlz, The Red Sneaks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
My Depression is a 2005 picture book written and illustrated by Elizabeth Swados about her experiences battling depression.
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Reception
Donna Seaman wrote that "Swados' candid, seemingly simple tale conveys a wealth of helpful information and dispels the gloom a bit by making readers laugh." Christian Perring wrote that Swados "does give a clear sense of how disabling and awful it is to have depression", but called her drawings "very crude" and "amateurish".
Translations
The book has been translated to Chinese:
Adaptations
The book was adapted into a 2014 animated television film My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It). The short film was written and directed by Swados with Robert Marianetti and David Wachtenheim, and stars Sigourney Weaver as Liz.
References
My Depression: A Picture Book Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA