Harry Potter author JK Rowling has revealed that she contemplated suicide while suffering from depression as a struggling single mother.
Harry Potter author JK Rowling has revealed that she contemplated suicide while suffering from depression as a struggling single mother.
During her twenties, Rowling was a single mother struggling financially and emotionally after her separation from first husband, Jorge Arantes, a Portuguese journalist.And it was then that the author, who has gathered a personal fortune estimated at 545 million pounds, considered taking her life.
In a recent interview, the 42-year-old writer said she received cognitive behavioural therapy after descending into suicidal thoughts.
“Mid-twenties life circumstances were poor and I really plummeted,” Times Online quoted Rowling, as telling Adeel Amini, who writes for an Edinburgh student magazine.
“The thing that made me go for help . . . was probably my daughter. She was something that earthed me, grounded me, and I thought, this isn’t right, this can’t be right, she cannot grow up with me in this state,” she added.
The author claimed that her regular Edinburgh GP was away and a stand-in doctor failed to help her.
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“Two weeks later I had a phone call from my regular GP who had looked back over the notes . . . She called me back in and I got counselling through her.
Rowling has previously spoken of her struggles with depression but had not discussed suicidal urges.
She received praise from mental health campaigners following the revelation.
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