Still Life: A Memoir of Living Fully with Depression

＂I stand on the edge of a cliff in my own bedroom.＂ Gillian Marchenko continues her description of depression: ＂I must keep still. Otherwise I will plunge to my death. ’Please God, take this away, ’ I pray when I can.＂ For Gillian, ＂dealing with depression＂ means learning to accept and treat it as a physical illness. In these pages she describes her journey through various therapies and medications to find a way to live with depression. She faces down the guilt of a wife and mother of four, two with special needs. How can she care for her family when she can’t even get out of bed? Her story is real and raw, not one of quick fixes. But hope remains as she discovers that living with depression is still life.

Gillian Marchenko is an author, speaker, wife, mother and advocate for individuals with special needs. Gillian’s first book was Sun Shines Down, and she has written for publications such as Chicago Parent, Thriving Family and Today’s Christian Woman. She and her husband, Sergei, spent four years as church planters with the Evangelical Free Church of America in Kiev, Ukraine, and they now live with their four daughters in St. Louis, Missouri.