Suicidal and Addicted to Romance Novels


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I suffer from bi-polar disorder. There have been many periods in my life when I was seriously depressed to the point of suicidality. At one point during a period of this kind of struggle I was in Costco and I discovered a suspense novel by an author I hadn’t read before. Without thinking too much about it, I put it in my cart. I had never read anything like this book before. It was romantic suspense, all right, but it had explicit sex. For a reason I didn’t understand, it made me feel good. I looked for more books by this author and then found that there was a huge market of this kind of book out there. The more I read, the better I felt. If I read a book a day, I could keep my suicidality at bay. My doctors had given up and said there was nothing they could do for me. They told me they had tried every medication and there was nothing to help. My...

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