Originally Posted by
Rafiki
I've settled for writing a book instead, to try & change people's attitudes towards it. I'm going in-depth on how it feels to live inside a mind that's constantly pulling you both ways - deeper & deeper into depression & then the next minute wanting to recover (even if you don't act on it). A lot of people have depression yet don't speak up. I want to include Bipolar & Schizophrenia & maybe eating disorders in the book too, but I don't want to go too far.. if I include them, would that be going too far, since some people don't understand it much?
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Your last question - in all honesty (since you asked)? I wouldn't say it's going in too much - I'd just say that there are an
awful lot of books out there like that at the moment. If people don't understand this stuff, it's not because there's a lack of information/"this is my story" type books out there - people put barriers up, and no amount of semi-biographical books will break that barrier down.