The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live Audiobook (Free)

From New York Times bestselling author and blogger Heather B. Armstrong comes an honest and irreverent memoir—similar to the New York Instances bestseller Mind on Fire—about her experience as you of only a few people to participate in an experimental treatment for depression regarding ten rounds of the chemically induced coma approximating brain death.

For years, Heather B. Armstrong offers alluded to her have a problem with depression on her website, dooce. It’s spread throughout her archive, where about The Valedictorian to be Dead: THE REAL Story of Dying Ten Occasions to Live it weaves its way through content about pop lifestyle, music, and motherhood. However in 2016, Heather discovered herself in the depths of the depression she just couldn’t shake, an event darker and longer than anything she experienced previously experienced. She had never felt therefore discouraged by the idea of waking up in the morning, and it threatened to destroy her life. So, with regard to herself and her family, Heather made a decision to risk everything by participating in an experimental medical trial concerning a chemically induced coma approximating human brain death.

Now, for the very first time, Heather recalls the torturous eighteen a few months of suicidal unhappiness she endured and the month-long experimental study in which doctors used propofol anesthesia to quiet all brain activity for a full fifteen minutes before bringing her back again from a flatline. Ten occasions. The knowledge wasn’t easy. Not for Heather or her family members. But a switch was flipped, and Heather hasn’t experienced a single moment of suicidal despair since.

Disarmingly honest, self-deprecating, and scientifically fascinating, The Valedictorian of Being Dead brings to light a groundbreaking new treatment for depression.