Putting your life on the page with Ann Patchett, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Julia Samuel and Arifa Akbar
Woman's Hour
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A Psychiatric Illness
i suppose as part of me naively thought that this was an illness that was in our past. And, you know, it's never gone away. The west might have pushed it out of visibility, but it's there. My sister had suffered from depression and eating disorder for almost all her life. There were, i felt, real judgments, andnd, now, unpleasant judgments around that. She had always felt silenced or misunderstood in her life by the systems out there. I just felt tat even in death, she'd been misunderstood.
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