In an interview with Edinburgh University magazine, JK Rowling admits she had suffered with suicidal thoughts in her 20s when she was a poor, single mother struggling to pay the security deposit on her apartment.
"We're talking suicidal thoughts here, we're not talking 'I'm a little bit miserable,'" she told an Edinburgh University student magazine. "The thing that made me face the fact that this was not a normal state that I was in was probably my daughter [Jessica]. "She was something that earthed me, grounded me, and I thought, 'This isn't right, this can't be right, she cannot grow up in this state,'" Rowling added. With her regular doctor away at the time of her depression, she began seeing a therapist who "absolutely saved me." Rowling said she has "never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never.
"I think I'm abnormally shameless on that account because what's to be ashamed of?" She said she urges anybody suffering from depression to "go and get help. "I went through a really rough time," Rowling added, "and I'm quite proud of the fact that I got out of that."
It's amazing to hear how she felt years ago and what she has become now. A successful billionaire writer. Just goes to show a little bit of help can go a long way. :)
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