Harry Potter creator JK Rowling says that she came very, very close to committing suicide in the years before Harry Potter became a global bestseller. What saved her? Her daughter, Jessica.
Rowling says: "We're talking suicidal thoughts here, we're not talking 'I'm a
little bit miserable.'"
"The thing that made me face the fact that this was not a normal state that I was in was probably my daughter [Jessica, then a baby].
"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 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."
And Harry Potter fans everywhere are very, very grateful.
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