The Other Great Depression
How I'm Overcoming, on a Daily Basis, at Least a Million Addictions and Disfunctions and Finding a Spiritual (Sometimes) Life

I think if someone was expecting this book to be your normal celebrity memoir with tales of behind-the-scenes secrets with different famous costars, they’d be disappointed. This book is formatted more like various essays going deeper into Richard’s struggles with addiction, self-hatred, eating disor......more

Oh my God. Richard. I love him. I love his words, his insights and his ability to put words to feelings I have been unable to admit to. I recommend this book to anyone living in or headed towards recovery.......more

This book suckered me in, bored me in the middle and really got me crying at the end. IT is a story I have heard before but he just describes almost to a T what goes on in an addict's mind. His elf-esteem stuff is well written and can be related to many MH situation. The middle dragged but otherwise......more

This book started out as one of the most fascinating, and personal, depictions of alcoholism I've ever read. Lewis fearlessly takes us all the way inside his addictions, and it enables us to understand that particular brand of hell as outsiders rarely can. After that, however, the book becomes a ser......more

Anyone who does not appreciate the raw honesty and humility in this story of recovery has never been, or known, a loved one trapped in the hopeless lies of addiction. As an addiction specialist, I am recommending this book to my patients. Richard, you are reaching others and saving lives, telling yo......more