How the Writing About Depression Helps Me Stay Healthy

"I could no more have written about them in the early years of my emergence than i could have flown to the moon there," she says. "It took me time to sort it out, to embrace it as part of who i am." The act of going public about depression helps her stay healthy, and creates community around something that makes all of us feel very isolated,. And there's some sort of healing in the community itself", she adds.