Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do.
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I have suffered most of the things I write about - or my friends have.
Generally, I do not talk about people - family or friends. This is how I am.
I don't hide anything about myself, so I don't find it difficult to talk about things that happen in my life... But at the same time, I don't like putting myself out there too much. That's how I am.
There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.
Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it's got to in some way relate to them. Who wants to come and hear about your specific problems? It's not therapy - it's supposed to be a communal piece of entertainment.
I went into therapy several times, but it rarely made an impact.
I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.
Some writers like to go around talking about what they do all the time. I don't.
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