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Search for: Close. For Neha and Namita, the unwitting caretakers of a surly, reclusive teenager. For sixteen-year-old me, who did not yet know that this suffering can be a gift. This book is everything one needs to read to know that negative feelings are universal emotions. Now she had the courage to show her depression with the world. Bertina Clarke's Ownd. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Add this book to your favorite list ».
Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. Sort order. Start your review of I've never been Un happier: Penguin Petit. Jun 14, Ujjawal Sureka rated it really liked it Shelves: kindle. Genre : Autobiography. Publication Date : Oct She has tried her best to make us understand what it may be like, but as mentioned many times in the book, on Genre : Autobiography.
She has tried her best to make us understand what it may be like, but as mentioned many times in the book, one can only know what depression is like by experiencing it first hand. It is not something to be taken lightly and the person going through it must be given full support. What she has been through must have been really difficult and scary at times, but her description of it is poetic, scary, but poetic.
She does mention that it must never be romanticized, for depression is a monster, a thief and can cured with the help of others. Her words on loneliness, insomnia, therapy are captivating and I would agree with her to some extent.
One day you will be. View all 14 comments. But seriously this is one of the most well written books on mental health issues particularly focusing on major clinical depression, anxiety, eating disorders, suicidal tendencies, therapy and the misconceptions surrounding such issues from a person who has been dealing with them ever since she was fourteen.
I like the new edition, edited and updated with a stunning, attractive cover sue me! The writing is really gripping for a non-fiction. I finished reading up this on in less than an hour because it felt like Shaheen was just talking to me opening up her heart and mind over a cup of tea. What I loved most about this particular memoir is that it talks without romanticizing depression or suicide which most books on such issues fiction or non-fiction usually tend to do. The first few pages and some pages in between might seem a bit dramatic and 'overshared' but you will understand instantly why they are so.
The author understands well what she's is writing about; she has done thorough research and doesn't whine or glorify about things once she comes to understand what such issues are really about, specially after years of struggling without knowing what she has been going through and what she has been suffering from. I presumed that this memoir would be full of Bollywood references of her parents and her younger sister, Alia Bhatt, and she came out victorious handling depression and how she was suffering for the sake of bringing out a book yes, non-fiction books have disappointed me like this so many times.
Naturally I started assuming such things! But this woman is doing everything right and this memoir has the authenticity and the genuine feels that it was written and had to be shared for the sake of making everyone, young and old, man and woman, parents and family, friends and partners to understand and know the basic differences regarding how a person with mental health issues really has to go through and that he or she is not just 'lazy' or 'attention seeking' or being 'dramatic' or 'oversharing' at social media.
I appreciate the fact that the author is well-read and has done intensive research. I felt so deeply connected with this memoir at a personal level and I really believe that this book is going to create a massive wave, especially the adults in understanding mental health. I really do hope the taboo and discrimination around such issues to drop down a bit with such meaningful memoirs. I am so glad I picked up this book today coming back to my room thoroughly tired and stressed out.
Ironically, this memoir gave me all the positivity I needed. View all 8 comments. Even while I enjoyed this book, I wanted to read more personal tales rather than bookish information and data that I could find on the internet. I am pleased for her since she made a decent and honest effort. Oct 15, Smriti rated it really liked it Shelves: nonfiction. Matter of fact. A must read to just understand what depression does to a person.
Thanks, Shaheen for writing this. Pain has value, yes, but pain and mental illness are not the same thing and mental illnesses can't be seen as a means to an end or a route to greatness. It's not, and it's vital that we understand that. Shaheen Bhatt is the daughter of a director and an actress and is also a sister of a Pain has value, yes, but pain and mental illness are not the same thing and mental illnesses can't be seen as a means to an end or a route to greatness.
Shaheen Bhatt is the daughter of a director and an actress and is also a sister of a very big actress in India. Shaheen Bhatt has written a beautiful book, I've never been Un happier: , about her experience, her on-going battle with depression. Anxiety is fidgeting, pacing and hyperventilating.
It is uncertainty. It is the fear that something bad might be coming if you aren't fully prepared. Brene Brown, 'Vulnerability isn't good or bad, it's not what we can call a dark emotion, nor is it always a light, positive experience. Vulnerability is the core of all emotions and feelings.
To feel is to be vulnerable. To believe vulnerability is a weakness is to believe feeling is a weakness. View 2 comments. Nov 02, Monika rated it it was amazing. There is a reason why I adore Sylvia Plath. The same reason is the driving force why I am immensely in love with Shaheen Bhatt now. The slow disintegration of Plath's characters is what makes me love her; what's more, Shaheen Bhatt has herself become the character in I've Never Been Un Happier.
What I strongly feel about this short piece is that it couldn't have been written in a better way or it couldn't have been longer or shorter. Through just 66 pages, she has taken hold of my consciousness There is a reason why I adore Sylvia Plath.
Through just 66 pages, she has taken hold of my consciousness. Sometimes, we can't have any control of the situations and it is okay to feel what we feel.
This is such a riveting tale of her life through depressive phases. Earlier, I was sceptical of the name she is associated with; the stardom of her family made me question whether I should read this book or not.
I am so glad that I did. I am so glad that I am finally out of the habit of judging a book and I am filled with gratitude for her to have written something so piercingly beautiful.
View all 3 comments. Nov 02, Padmaja thebookishtales rated it really liked it. When this book was published, I smirked and said, another celebrity book is being shoved in our faces.
But when one of my trusted friends recommended me this book, I bought it and started reading it. And I must say, this book is brilliant. This hit close to home because I could relate with it very much. I really loved how honest she was and how unflinchingly she shared her story. A must must read. Oct 23, Astha Vyas rated it it was amazing. For the major part of my life, I have been unhappy.
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