Wenn das noch geht, kann es nicht so schlimm sein

When I am healthy again, I want to explain to Friederike what depression is like. But depression is cunning. When you are healthy, you can no longer remember what it was like to be sick. And when you are sick, you cannot imagine ever being healthy again.

"If it’s still possible, it can’t be that bad" is a disarmingly honest testimony of life with depression. Benjamin Maack wrests tragicomic moments from the merciless illness and narrates it in touching yet clear imagery. His story is not only a report on psychiatry and illness but also a family drama and the tale of a personal fate. A ruthless, literarily powerful book.