Thank you to publisher and net galley for gifting me this eARC in exchange for an honest review.

This is a memoir of the author herself, going through depression, was sectioned and admitted for a long time in a psychiatric unit, having to go for ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY, psychotherapy, and eventually after a few years of ups and downs, slowly stepped back into society and go back to her old job of a research scientist. The author herself was a junior doctor once, like me, so it was close to heart.

I find myself liking the honest and raw description of depression, and I hope this book is able to give a glimpse of how it feels like to carers of friends who knows anyone with depression. Sometimes our minds can be at its worst and torment us with the most painful experience one can ever have in life, and this book alluded to that, sensitively and succinctly.

I will recommend!!

Raw and authentic voice. A memoir about mental illness. Written so well. A topic that I find brave to explore and write about. Bravo! Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.

As a country, we don’t talk often enough about mental illness. In her memoir, Helen Murray Taylor does just that. It was a fascinating read.

A raw account of one womans experience with mental health. The devastation and struggles with day to day living and eventually being detained under the mental health act. The extremes helen goes to and eventually the love and friendship that help guide her. Very powerful, very raw, very on edge reading this.

Love Lay Down Beside Me and We Wept by Helen Murray Taylor is an emotional memoir that provides an account of her experience of suffering from mental health difficulties and her recovery process.