The Noonday Demon (120 page)

neurotransmitters affected by,
118
,
171

Wellstone, Paul,
369
,
371
,
372
,
376
,
377

Weltschmerz,
315

Wender, Paul,
472

West Africa,
ndeup
ceremonies in,
165
–70

Weston, Russell, Jr.,
373
,
374

Wetzel, Richard,
471
–72

White Guard, The
(Bulgakov),
7

White House Conference on Mental Illness,
374

Whitman, Walt,
329

Whybrow, Peter,
445
,
448
,
453

Wier, Jan,
297

wife batterers,
178
–79,
180

Wilde, Oscar,
321

wilderness survival program,
142
–44

Williams, Tennessee,
443

Willis, Thomas,
306
–7,
483

Willowbrook,
380

Willow Weep for Me
(Danquah),
195

Wilson, Fred (pseudonym),
354
–55,
360

Wilson, John,
374

Winter’s Tale, The
(Shakespeare),
430

Wise, Bob,
369
,
377
,
384
,
392

witchcraft,
297
–98,
303

Witthower, Rudolph and Margot,
445

women:

alcoholism of,
175

suicidality of,
249
,
471
–72

women’s depression,
173
–78

in African Americans,
195
–96

biological causation of,
173
–74

in eighteenth century,
311

feminine passivity vs.,
176
–77

indigent status and,
337
,
338
,
339
–52,
355
–59

male depression rates vs.,
173
,
175
,
177
–78,
180
,
457
,
458
,
457
,
458

motherhood and,
83
,
121
–22,
174
,
175
,
180
–81,
337
,
338
,
342
,
345
,
346
–47,
440
–41,
458

in rural areas,
339
,
343
–351

sexual abuse and,
176
,
340
–41,
348
,
349
,
350
,
351
,
355

social factors in,
174
–78,
457
,
458

Wong, David,
334

Woodhull Hospital,
386

Woolf, Leonard,
55

Woolf, Virginia,
16
–17,
55
,
87
–88,
103
,
273
–74

Wordsworth, William,
314

World Health Organization,
331
,
397

Xanax,
54
,
64
,
89
,
93
,
119
,
127
,
234
,
235
,
358
,
487

anxiety controlled with,
51
,
61
,
63
,
78
,
92
,
129
,
234

side effects of,
87
,
88

withdrawal from,
70
–71,
74

Yapko, Michael,
144
,
455

Years, The
(Woolf),
103

yellow bile,
287

yohimbine,
116

Young, Edward,
311

Young, Elizabeth,
57
,
58
,
59
,
60
,
449

zinc,
138

Zoloft (sertraline),
51
,
60
,
78
,
114
,
118
,
119
,
121
,
236
,
334
,
487

see also
Lustral

Zubenko, George,
461
–62

Zyprexa,
89
,
90
,
119
,
164
,
426
,
447

antianxiety benefits of,
87

appetite affected by,
242

sedating effect of,
88
,
92
,
93
–94

withdrawal from,
234
–35,
236

Charles Baudelaire, excerpts from “Spleen,” translated by Sir John Squire, from
Poems and Baudelaire Flowers
(London: The New Age Press, 1909). Reprinted with the permission of Raglan Squire.

Emily Dickinson, “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,” and “The Heart asks Pleasure—first—” from
The Poems of Emily Dickinson,
Thomas H. Johnson, ed. Copyright 1951, © 1955, 1979 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Reprinted with the permission of The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Jane Kenyon, excerpts from “Back” and “Having It Out with Melancholy” from
Otherwise: New and Selected Poems.
Copyright © 1996 by the Estate of Jane Kenyon. Reprinted with the permission of Graywolf Press, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Giacomo Leopardi, excerpt from
Poems,
translated by Jean-Pierre Barricelli (New York: Las Americas Publishing, 1963). Reprinted by permission of Dr. Franca R. Barricelli.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, excerpt from [“And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you”] from
Collected Poems
(New York: Harper & Row, 1967). Copyright 1954, © 1982 by Norma Millay Ellis. All rights reserved. Reprinted with the permission of Elizabeth Barnett, literary executor.

Virginia Woolf, suicide note from
The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume VI: 1936–1941,
edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautman. Copyright © 1980 by Quentin Bell and Angelica Garnett. Reprinted with the permission of Harcourt, Inc., and the executors of the Virginia Woolf Estate and The Random House Group Limited.