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Mendoza-dk's avatar

I’m speechless. If This is How You Lose Her didn’t convince me that you are a writer of tremendous courage, this post did. That’s, that’s just an amazingly generous thing to write.

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Ada Austen's avatar

Yes, courage is the word. People who have never walked in depression have no idea the courage it can take to get through one day.

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Jill Oliver-Meyers's avatar

Thank you for sharing. You always write about depression so poignantly. I’m glad you continue to fight the good fight, friend. We are better for it.

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Emil Bakkendrup's avatar

Great and thoughtful post! I have suffered from depression as well and found it hard to write about. Which short stories would you all here recommend where depression is a saliant theme?

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José Sotolongo's avatar

Such a brave post. In my culture, acknowledging depression was a sign of weakness and even unmanliness when I was a child. To wrangle it, as you describe, is a victory over the dark.

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Julieta Holman's avatar

Your posts often yank me out of my own bouts of depression. Thank you, Junot. Your gift is immense. Grateful to be able to read you.

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Ada Austen's avatar

A toast to that invincible haunted child who bravely says “I would prefer not to.”

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Lynne Shook's avatar

Dear Junot,

While it's true that we are all unique in some way, you are unique in the contributions you have been able to make to the world of literature. If you never publish another book, what you've written so far will shine for a very very long time.

The Dr. Shook in me is struggling to put in her 2cents, but all I will let her say is "hang in there."

With much appreciation for the person you are.....

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Daniela Clemens's avatar

Sigh.

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Jennifer Avenia's avatar

Tears in my eyes, heart broken open. Thank you for writing this.

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Evan Margetson's avatar

Depression is a character who eats life and so-called meaning for breakfast and vomits it out to serve for lunch. It preys on the symbol making function like some renegade nematode. This is boring?

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