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Produced by Mike Bernstein

Other pieces by Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Summary: Twelve year old Cameron Ledoux talks with his father about his dad's depression.
 

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Excellent

I don't think I have ever read or heard a piece like this. The perspective, from a 12 year old, is unique and the interview with the father is so raw and honest.

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Review of Sit With Me

Everything about this piece is excellent. The narrator's voice, what he says, the balance his and his father's voices are given throughout the piece. This is a piece about a child's experience with a depressed parent. about depression. It also gives a portrait of depression that is unexpectedly profound, given how little the father speaks. But when he speaks, and perhaps because he is speaking to his son, not to an outsider, you hear the fragility and the struggle in his voice. I highly recommend this piece.


Review of Sit With Me

Heartbreaking. Not because of what Cameron's dad is going through, and I don't discount his illness at all. Heartbreaking because both father and son feel helpless that they are not able to help or do for each other more. I cannot listen to pieces about father and son without getting emotional; I've admitted to it several times before without an ounce of discomfort. Cameron reminds me of where I was at that age many years ago. But he asked. He asked what every father wants to hear, "what can I do to help?" And he replied. He replied...