Last week writer Sherman Alexie wrote a deeply personal
Facebook post recounting his current struggle with depression and announcing that he was cancelling part of his book tour.
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Thought I was happy, been depressed. |
The tour was a promotion of Alexie’s latest book,
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me, a memoir about his late [emotionally absent] mother. The tour, explains Alexie, has been an experience of “
rebreaking my heart night after night. I have, to use recovery vocabulary, been retraumatizing myself.”
In the wake of Alexie’s honesty, SoCal Public Radio (
scpr.org) today asks listeners with mental illness how they’ve dealt with serious bouts of depression.
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I know how to party!! Whoo-hoo! |
Has the stigma surrounding mental health problems lessened? Can we be as honest as Alexie with our family, friends, and employers?
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