Willow Weep for Me : A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression

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Summary: Just Saved My Marriage
Review: Reading the excerpts of this book on your web site got me thinking deeply about my wife, who is presently looking for a place of her own. I just sent her the url to the excerpts and hope she will read it and change her mind and stay. Thanks for saving my marriage!

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Summary: I read this book in one day!
Review: This is a riveting, unashamed, raw memoir. I couldn't put it down and could feel the tears welling up in my eyes at certain points in her story. What a courageous young woman to have told such a personal, intimate, truthful and hurtful tale. Never before will I think of depression as just a "dark cloud that passes". It was frightening to read of the debilitating sadness this woman endured. Amazing, simply amazing!

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Summary: willow weep for me
Review: this was an excellent read i've been diagnoised as being clinically drepressed and having bipolar disorder i really could relate with this book

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Summary: Willow Weep for Me
Review: Upon reading the first pages, I wanted to know where was the person who was mirroring my life. Our struggles have ran so parallel that if Meri were to hear my story, I am sure she would feel as if I had been living her life. I can't begin to share with anyone the horror of living with this dreadful disease, however Meri said it like I haven't heard or read anywhere before. The strength that she found to write this memoir is very characteristic of us, individuals who suffer with depression. We can often go deep inside and find the resources to rise to any occasion and muster up the will to live. We, then, are able to do things that others, who don't live day to day with this debilitating illness, can't or won't do. Yet they do not live with such a disease that robs you of your self esteem and movitation that others take for granted. I have often been envious of those who appear so**normal**. Meri, my sister, you have done us "proud". You have my humblest admiration and prayers that your life will be more than we can imagine.

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Summary: One of the best books I have read this year!!!
Review: WILLOW WEEP FOR ME is a powerful book that really touched me. I felt like I was going through the ups and downs along with the author. It was a totally personal journey and Ms. Danquah was extremely brave to write such a a personal account of her life. WILLOW WEEP FOR ME was long overdue, because it focuses on how depression affects Black women and how it reveals itself in our lives. It opened my mind to reflect on my own life and some of the behaviors I have witnessed not only in myself, but in family, friends and associates. People in the Black community still seem to attach a stigma to mental illness in general, while so many in the Black community -- particulary "depressed" i.e., poor communities -- are suffering; and we don't even know it until finally suffering a nervous breakdown or some other "dysfunction". It was a real eye, heart and soul opener. I highly recommend it to all.