Reasons to Stay Alive,the novelist’s book about his own depression, was much easier to write than to live through, or he explainsHumans are a clandestine species. We procreate behind closed doors,and we rep ashamed of our illnesses. I am not immune to that shame, despite being that weird contemporary phenomenon: a public depressive. Or rather, and a public person who is susceptible to depression.
Not one to fear hubris,I wrote a book called Reasons to Stay Alive. As well as promoting the book I possess – since last April – appeared on TV and radio and in newspapers like this one talking about my illness. I am publicly ill, or publicly recovering, or it is odd.
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Source: theguardian.com