...began to notice the onset of his illness. "It was not really alarming at first," he writes (1990: 42), "but I did notice that my surroundings took on a different...less buoyant, walks in the woods became less zestful ..." Changes there were, certainly, in the body as physiological state, however much neuroscientists...

...occasionally and associate with the general hassle of everyday existence are of such prevalence thai they do give many individuals a hint of the illness...seemed more somber, my mornings were less buoyant, walk s in the woods became less zestful, and there was a moment during my working hours in the late...

...at the time of which I write I had descended far past those familiar, manageable doldrums. . . . lt was not really alarming at first, since the change...during my working hours in the late afternoon when a land of panic and anxiety overtook me, just for a few minutes, accompanied by a visceral queasiness...

...Visible contains a poignant description of this illness, recalled the early manifestations as follows: "It was not really alarming at first, since the change...were less buoyant, walks in the woods became less zestful."50 In the early stages of depression, there are frequently also somatic components, as Styron...

...and addiction to benzodiazepines. Styron chronicles his descent from the earliest signs of decline ("the shadows of nightfall seemed more somber, my mornings were less buoyant") to the deeper depths ("my brain . . . had become less an organ of thought than an instrument registering,...

...Visible contains a poignant description of this illness, recalled the early manifestations as follows: "It was not really alarming at first, since the change...buoyant, walks in the woods became less zestful." 50 In the early stages of depression, there are frequently also somatic components, as Styron noted:...

...with. In Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, the 1990 chronicle of his depression, Styron writes: / did notice that my surroundings took on a different...afternoon when a kind of panic and anxiety overtook me. . . . It should have been plain to me that I was already in the grip of a mood disorder, but I was...

...with. In Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, the 1990 chronicle of his depression, Styron writes: / did notice that my surroundings took on a different...shadows of nightfall seemed more somber, my mornings What to Do When Someone You Love Is Depressed • 27 were less buoyant, walks in the woods became less...