The Year of Magical Thinking

I read this book after a 67 - year - old healthy mother accidentally died of cerebral hemorrhage. She is visiting me, we are talking, sitting on the sofa, she just fell. It still feels like a nightmare, it has been almost three months. Anyway, there are many books to help sorrow. You can find various self-help books on this topic, some for adult children and surviving spouses. Most of them did not think they were very useful - my father did not. In addition to sad counseling, I recommend this book to someone who has dealt with the sudden death of a loved one.

The memoir of Didien has given me a lot of help - a description of her emotional trauma and her lifestyle since then is live, very similar to my own experience. I usually focus very carefully on attention to detail; my memory is very sensitive. However, since my mother died, I have been forgotten, I am not concentrating, I have no motivation. I feel like I am losing my mind. And I thought that if it could pass through the funeral it would be the worst part. As Didion explains, this is neither the worst part nor the strongest part - the worst and worst thing. When sad, Didion wrote a lot of articles about her own similar problem, and I am glad to know this is not only me, it will be better. I also bought a copy of my father, he swallowed it and found it to be very useful - indeed, he repeatedly stated the value this book gave him. I know this is a memoir and not a real manual, but for some reason it is our guide. I bought it for me at Kindle and bought a hardcover book for my father; I just got an extra to save to have friends who can benefit from that day I want to buy a copy.

If you deal with the sudden accidental death of a person you love, read this book. Or pass it to someone who is tolerant of similar things. Do not regret it.

Joan Didion's 2004 bestselling book, The Year of Magical Thinking, is a relationship with her sudden death at her husband's home. This memorable record, which is highly regarded worldwide, makes us familiar with the term "magical thinking". Psychologists and anthropologists often use it to express extreme mental conditions such as children's developmental stage, characteristics of primitive cultures, psychiatric disorders. For example, for some time, Didion thought that she needed to put on her husband's shoes when he returned.

In 2003, Joan Didion suddenly lost her husband for 40 years, and their daughter was unconscious in a nearby hospital. The year of magic thinking is a powerful and eloquent explanation of such surviving loss of deep loss. As she calls these unexpected moments to losses from another angle, Didion is particularly effective for drawing sad emotional landscapes, sudden intense charges, vortices. As a preface, I am a fan of Sherman Alexei who is hiding. His work is indigenous work that defines identity in the modern white world and it is very personal for me. Like Alexei, my father was a lesbian, and he married city urban Indians from his mother. This is because it is important to understand that Sherman Alexie's life and sorrowful story are not typical of community life.

Like her mother, Peggy is a reader. The book that influences her (many) is Joan Didion's "Magic Thinking Year". This book is another Di Dien's psychological diary about the sorrow that her husband felt in her husband's 1 year after death. This sentence is not a concept that is ambiguous and well perceived in this context in magical thinking. This is a psychological term explaining that thinking that one can avoid the result if it thinks it is sufficiently difficult and long enough. Yes, this is a crazy cousin.

People like to indulge in magical thinking. In the mysterious thinking world, everything is a quick and magical solution. For example, there is a superstition that everything will work if the first person who is wishing for a happy New Year is a man - in this case it will be great all year round, otherwise it will be very bad ( No, I have not done this). Or everything will change at the beginning of the New Year's midnight. It's just from December 31st to January 1st - I can not wait to wait for an annoying old fart to die.