J K Rowling: Anxiety and Depression

J K ROWLING was on the radio earlier today talking about her forthcoming novel for adults. It will be (arguably) her eighth book for an adult readership, since Harry Potter seemed to be written for (and was definitely read by) adults too.

She said when she was younger she had "mental health problems"*. Strange how the language has changed: when I was younger they were called "emotional problems". She means anxiety in her teens; depression in her twenties.

See: anxiety is very common. So is depression. Together they mix like a cocktail from hell.

When I was younger, I used to think "you can't change everything in life, but you can change your attitude". Sometimes that helps. Maybe I can still help myself... I hope so.


Is it just me, or does this music sound really, really melancholy and sad?...

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*When I was younger, "emotional problems" usually meant "reactive depression", anxiety and "neurosis"; the label "mental problems" tended to be applied to more "serious" illness: manic depression, "endogenous depression" and schizophrenia...

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