![]() ![]() “The next eight years or so … I didn’t really touch it, except for little bits and pieces, here and there.” “I got sicker and I ended up in the hospital … and I ended up slacking off on the book,” he recalled. Jagessar started the book several years ago, but his mental illness started to severely impact his life. “I wrote the story that I wanted to entertain myself with.” “This book was my escape from it,” he said. This book was my escape from - Arvind Jagessar, author His science-fiction, action-adventure book - set in the depths of space - was written at a time when he was in a dark space as well. ![]() Jagessar was diagnosed with depression more than a decade ago, when he was in his early 20s. Jagessar recently read from his book The Last Man from Earth, at the Greater Sudbury Public Library in northern Ontario. The lunchtime reading was held this week for participants in a writers' circle, which was formed by Sudbury's Northern Initiative for Social Action as a way to help people cope with mental illness. There was a time in Arvind Jagessar's life when he wouldn't have believed he could survive the soul-wrenching trials of severe depression and move on to become a published author. The CBC's Jenifer Norwel spoke with one of the authors who used science fiction to help him deal with depression. A peer support group hosted a reading for authors who have been living with mental health and addiction. Morning North 5:51 Writing to get through struggles with mental illness A novel approach to mental health. ![]()
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