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“And I know that I must go on doing this dance on hot bricks till I die.”

The brilliant novelist Virginia Woolf used this metaphor to describe her ongoing struggle with mental health in her diary on March 1, 1937, which was 42 years after her first nervous breakdown and four years before she drowned herself. What … Continue reading

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