A writer with trauma

  I don't know why writing and sadness go together like peanut butter and jelly. They just do.  The biggest works of literature are about dark stuff like sexual abuse (Toni Morrison in 'Bluest eye'), the loss of a parent (Ocean Vuong in 'Time is a mother'), the loss of a lover or a fantasy (Haruki Murakami in 'Desire'), addiction and becoming a broken shell of a man as a result of it (Douglas Stuart in 'Shuggie Bain') and so on. Depression does not discriminate anyone and many famous writers we grew to love and care for have struggled with it. Unfortunately, few of them have lost their lives to this illness. Depression in the literary world Sylvia Plath The day you died I went into the dirt,  Into the lightless hibernaculum  Where bees, striped black and gold, sleep out the blizzard  Like hieratic stones, and the ground is hard.  Electra on Azalea Path by Sylvia Plath This is the beginning of "Electra on Azalea Path" a poem written by Sylvi...