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Therese Borchard writes about depression every day on her award-winning blog at Beliefnet.com. But it took a special leap of faith to share the stories of her breakdowns, hospitalizations and ongoing struggle with depression in her new book Beyond Blue: Surviving Depression & Anxiety and Making the Most of Bad Genes. "This will do wonders for my chances of future employment," she cracks. TIME writer Amy Sullivan talked with Borchard about the challenges of writing about mental illness (especially one's own) at the writer's home in Annapolis...
...story you tell is very raw and can't have been easy to share. What made you decide to write this book? I didn't write it for about 18 years because I thought that writing about your own life was self-indulgent. But then I thought about what kept me going through the darkest days, reading memoirs by other people who have struggled with depression - Kay Redfield Jamison, Anne Lamott - and who emerged even stronger and more capable...
...depression kills almost 1 million people a year. It almost killed me, and it did kill my aunt. If I can give just one person hope that there's an end to depression, that it is treatable, then that made it worth it for me to write the book. (See TIME's Pictures of the Week...
What was the most painful part of writing the book? By far the hardest part was writing about my kids and the heartache of trying to get well in the midst of parenting. My illness got much worse after my second child was born, and it's been so hard sometimes not being able to explain to him what clinical depression is, [or] why I'm crying. I want them to understand what depression is, but I don't want them to have that baggage of growing up with a whack...
...true goal is to create a powerful social networking utility," said Tristan J. Walker, foursquare’s vice president of business development. "The inspiration for foursquare came from what Amazon has done with book and other product recommendations for their users—we want to do this with locations...