About 5-10% of women will experience a major depressive episode in their lifetimes. Through the collection of essays and poetry that makes up Beside the Quiet Voices, Christine Robinson delivers a deeply intimate and emotional account of a two year battle with one such episode. On the heels of an altruistic kidney donation, joy and optimism withered despite the giving of a life-sustaining gift. A series of personal setbacks--single parenthood, financial difficulties, and the unfinished business of grieving for her beloved brother, Chuck--took a toll. Stealing faith, hope, sanity, the low eventually affected every aspect of her personal and professional life.

Clinical depression affects an estimated 18% of the population, accounting for at least half of all suicides.

The stories, revelations, and creative reflections are tragic, inspiring, poignant, and authentically written by a gifted writer with a voice that's anything but quiet.

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