JK Rowling Says She Contemplated Suicide

Personally, I feel that it was not right on Rowling's part to make such comments in public. Here's my take on it: http://anirudhbhati.com/2008/03/24/jk-rowling-considered-suicide/

Springtime / Easter is a dangerous time. If you suspect someone is that depressed, don't schedule an appointment. Don't give them time to mull over a terrifying prospect like that. Drag them to a clinic kicking and screaming. Be around them all the time. Talk about them with their friends and family. Put the pieces together. Each person might have one piece of the puzzle. The scale of consequences becomes flattened for them - the effort of buying a coffee is the same as pulling a trigger.

In the Introduction to his book The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression, Eric Maisel, PhD writes: "Creators have trouble maintaining meaning. In the act of creation, they lay a veneer of meaning over meaninglessness and sometimes produce work that helps others maintain meaning. This is why creating is such a crucial activity in the life of a creator: It is one of the ways, and often the most important way, that she manages to make life feel meaningful."

Her loss would have been the literary world's gain.

You know what....

One would think that such experiences would make her more sympathetic to the struggles of people like the editor of the lexicon she's been trying to stomp out of existence. Is this new revelation supposed to make us see the billionaire as someone like us? I will see her as someone like us when she grants Steve Vander Ark the permission and acknowledgment he deserves. Until then I can only assume that a ridiculous level of success has made her mean.

I agree with Chris Mathews /Victory is accomplished when our soldiers come home

I am not sure if I sent this before/If they can get the goods on #9/ why can't they get the goods on #43?

It seems most of the news has been muzzled/one hardly ever hears any news about Iraq/NEVER any news about the soldiers tha have commited suicide/or those with post truamatic stress snydrome/they take 3 stories and rotate them all day

"Do it now, she should." ----wilburbudd
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No, Yoda, NO!

Oh, please...who hasn't contemplated suicide in the darkest days of their life. Another media non-story.

She was depressed when she was poor and struggling.

Now she is world famous and super-rich, and she is
much happier and more-fullfilled.

Sounds like the recipe for true happiness to me!

There's The Secret, folks!

I'VE BEEN EXTREMELY DEPRESSED ON OCCASION TOO...

But never so badly that I considered taking my life. Death always seemed much worse than anything I was feeling, although who knows? But if you believe in reincarnation (as I do and as I suspect Rowling does), the prospect of having to do it all over again, plus the terrible karma that you get from suicide, tends to give one added pause....

SO WHAT? She didn't, and she is a billionaire now. Do it now, she should. Now that would be a statement.

Amazing world we live in, earn billions by writing crappy books which are then made into crappy movies with sub par acting.