Southern Vapors edition by Lynn Garson Religion Spirituality eBooks
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Southern Vapors chronicles the author's life from childhood through college, law school, marriage, children, careers, and finally, the landscape of divorce and single parenthood. There are glimpses of her early life as an heiress-in-waiting, big white house more Tara than Tara itself, travels on a grand scale and glamor at home. The author's careers make appearances—lawyer, retailer, administrative assistant, purveyor of vintage handbags, editor and writer.
The descent from the dizzying heights of prosperity follows, culminating in seven days locked in a low income mental institution. The author figures in most of the hospital scenes as the quintessential outsider, the observer, even when her eye is turned inward. A savvy country boy shows her new found respect when he mistakenly assumes that she drove to the hospital by herself as a way to plan her escape in advance. He was wrong, but she watches him make decisions about her both ways, first as a dumb chick hard to square with his image of a lawyer and then as a savvy lady who figured out how to work the system.
After her stay at the hospital, the author observes her mind as it ebbs and flows and skirts around depression, perhaps even madness. Southern Vapors describes her quest for recovery, from traditional therapy to Native American shamanism and everything in between. She explores her relationship with each parent, unearthing some long-held secrets and ultimately achieving reconciliation with her mother and a tentative peace with her father, who is no longer living. By the end of the book, the author has two years under her belt as a practicing attorney and has regained her emotional and mental footing. Her ascent back to health is clearly apparent and enormously inspiring.
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Southern Vapors edition by Lynn Garson Religion Spirituality eBooks
Southern Vapors delights by delivering a recovery message laced with loads of humor. (The author has an uncanny ability to admit her foibles. People can relate to her.) I wish more memoirs of mental illness were as fun to read as this one. For readers who aren’t familiar with Victoriana, a 'case of the vapors' is an expression that has gone the way of women's 'stays'. The word itself is an archaic catchall term that refers to the treatment of certain mental or physical states primarily attributed to women, in other words, ‘vapors’ is old fashioned female hysteria. Psychiatry could save us all of lot of ‘othering’ if it jettisoned terms like depression, bipolar disorder, etc. from the DSM in favor of “the vapors”.Product details
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Southern Vapors edition by Lynn Garson Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
WOW! WOW! WOW!
WOW!
I quite honestly did not know what to expect when I bought this book. I was stunned. I was stunned by the strength and courage it took to not only survive her story, but to be able to put it in writing
in such a clear, insightful and humorous way. At times I laughed until I cried. Several chapters there were literally tears rolling down my face.
The Author so poignantly shared her journey. Her story is an inspiration to keep your sense of humor as you walk your path.
Please run, do not walk, to get this book!
Lynn Garson has written a cathartic masterpiece about her mental meltdown and struggle back to health, stability and productive life. Tormented by disfunctional relationships, she traces her life as a child of wealth and priviledge, through careers, a failed marriage, financial reversal and three very different mental health lockups. What makes her story stand apart from others of this genre is her outstanding writing, rich with descriptive imagery, clarity, wisdom, and wit. I followed her painful journey, not so much in sympathy, but captivated by the artful and compelling description of her very personal human condition.
"I have often been absorbed in my struggle, as a fox is absorbed in its efforts to chew its leg off in order to escape from a trap."
Ms. Garson escaped through her intellect and admitted passion for words and emerges standing on her own two feet free of the trap.
After 30 frustrating years of medication, meditation and psychiatry, she puts her puzzle pieces together proving the pen is mightier than the pill. This book should be of value, not only as a great memoir, but as part of the national conversation on mental health. She speaks from profound experience having gone to the edge. I look forward to her next work.
Southern Vapors is a work of subtle genius and great humor. The author describes a life of extremes--luxury and privilege followed by near poverty... and a keen intellect sometimes crippled by frequent bouts of mental illness. Garson's voice throughout remains almost deadpan, delivering a roller coaster ride of improbable events in an eerily calm way as she makes her way back to the light.
This book will appeal to many readers with its snippets of a privileged southern life and glimpses of the "old south' slowly giving way to the new. But it is mainly a touching chronicle of a life lived fully and painfully in the face of many obstacles--often self-imposed.
Read it.
This book is an honest account of the reality of living a life with depression. Lynn Garson explores her life as she travels the treatment for her depression. It is well written in an understandable way enabling me to be an understanding bystander of her life and not a critical one, or one who looks the other way. I'm a better person from her story.
First of all I want to thank you for writing your story and doing so with skill. I read several pages to my nephew tonight over the phone as I knew they would help him (end of book talking about the hard work, there is no magic pill, and the smoke and mirrors by big pharma). He was comforted in his struggles at the age of 27 to find the answers to his anxiety after several suicide attempts and hospitalizations.
Second of all, I hope there is another book about anything you want to write about! You are a very delightful writer, gifted with words and style and even amongst your angst found a way to pepper your phrases with meaning and humor as not to burden the reader but laying hope and impending resolution. Southern Vapors is a delightful, easy, thought provoking, sad and hopeful read. I can’t wait to see the play AND I can’t wait to read your next book. You really are talented and now that you have let that cat out of the bag it really would be a disservice to not let us have more.
A huge fan for so many reasons; writing skill, talent, and content being a few!
Of the dozen or so recovery memoirs I have read over the years, Southern Vapors ranks among the best. Garson seems to be able to make whatever she writes about entertaining. Her voice is clever, natural, and literate, with a high degree of moreishness.
Southern Vapors does not tell Garson's story in a linear fashion. The series of short anecdotes and reflections may at first seem to be completely disorganized, but the book does have a logic in its structure, leading to as satisfactory a conclusion as is possible in works of this nature. I would like to read more from Garson.
My family is from the South and I also lived in Atlanta during the same period as the author. Her presentation of a life there in the late 60's/ early 70's was amazing in detail, especially the social rites of passage for a young woman in a very different time. Like The Help, her story rang true in so many details, but her art in making them funny is a special gift. What I found especially riveting was her recall and abilty to reconcile her memories as a young child with the wisdom she acquired as an adult. Her story made me feel as if I too could surface from the most desperate of circumstances and shine forth in happiness and a sense of self worth through true grit, as she does exhibit. Her reconciliation with her family and her gift of looking at herself wisely is a special quality of this book, which has a triumphant ending that will make anyone's day a happier one.
Southern Vapors delights by delivering a recovery message laced with loads of humor. (The author has an uncanny ability to admit her foibles. People can relate to her.) I wish more memoirs of mental illness were as fun to read as this one. For readers who aren’t familiar with Victoriana, a 'case of the vapors' is an expression that has gone the way of women's 'stays'. The word itself is an archaic catchall term that refers to the treatment of certain mental or physical states primarily attributed to women, in other words, ‘vapors’ is old fashioned female hysteria. Psychiatry could save us all of lot of ‘othering’ if it jettisoned terms like depression, bipolar disorder, etc. from the DSM in favor of “the vapors”.
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