Out of the Blue: A Memoir of Workplace Depression, Recovery, Redemption, and, Yes, Happiness
At the height of her career in journalism, Jan Wong's world came crashing down. A story she wrote on a school shooting sparked a violent backlash, including death threats. Her newspaper failed to stand by her, and for the first time in her life she spiraled into clinical depression. She found...
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At the height of her career in journalism, Jan Wong's world came crashing down. A story she wrote on a school shooting sparked a violent backlash, including death threats. Her newspaper failed to stand by her, and for the first time in her life she spiraled into clinical depression. She found herself unable to write, but the paper's management thought she was feigning illness, and fired her. Her insurer rejected her claim of depression, and her publisher refused to publish this book.Out of the Blue is a memoir unlike any other. It is the surreal, wrenching, sometimes hilarious, and ultimately triumphant story of one woman's struggle to come to terms with depression.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780987868503 (0987868500)
Publish date: May 5th 2012
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Pages no: 263
Edition language: English
Out of the Blue is a brave narrative of one journalist's depression, triggered by a stressful episode and exacerbated by her treatment by her employer's HR and insurance departments.From seeing it pass by on the covers of her several books, Jan Wong's name was not unknown to me before this memoir, b...