Help me finish my book

Help me finish a book that will help enormously any reader battling with depression

In 2015, I went to the gym like any ordinary day. I didn’t come home.

I had a heart attack and died on the gym floor. By sheer chance, a doctor was training nearby. He used a portable defibrillator to restart my heart and saved my life. Two years later, that same man took his own life.

I had previously experienced a clinical depressive episode, and his suicide devastated me. It also ignited a deeper need to understand depression – not just as a diagnosis, but as a lived reality. That moment became the catalyst for the book I am now trying, very urgently, to finish.

My life has been shaped by serious medical challenges. If gathering serious medical disorders ever becomes an Olympic event, I should finish among the medals. In 2000, I suffered a severe stroke and spent two years recovering. I am now 73. Like many freelance writers, I have always worked job to job – editing, writing, taking whatever comes in to keep going.

So I keep on writing.

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