I wanted to commit suicide: J.K.R article

I contemplated suicide, says Harry Potter creator, JK Rowling

wht j k rowling is a woman???i thought its a male writer 😕

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Are u joking???? 😆u must be!!!! Coz ofcourse J.K.R is a woman!!!! Well😆😆😆 everyone knows that and atleast people who read HP knows it!!!!😆😆😆

Anyway congrats for this discovery 😆😆😆

yup..jrk is a guy in hp forum!!u gotta be kiddin me!!

i just heard d same news in bbc..its kinda sad..thank god she dint suicide..we wod hv never got d potter books otherwise.. 😭

I read it in Times of India....
poor thing! tht was because of financial problems n now she is one of the richest women in the world {or is it THE RICHEST WOMEN}
wa;eva..she's still stinkin rich 😆
well....u'vew got to admit if she had commited suicide..if she had given up..we wudnt have had this forum!
i read bout her loooooong back in NNS magazine...
it says tht she was extremly poor and hardly had money for a normal living! poor JKR....

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Good that HP had brought her such name and success...👏

Poor her 😭 😭 😭

Hope she's OK now 😭

Originally posted by: stranger@mirror

I contemplated suicide, says Harry Potter creator, JK Rowling

JK Rowling has revealed that she thought of killing herself while suffering from depression as a struggling single mother.

The Harry Potter author says she was prescribed cognitive behavioural therapy after suffering "suicidal thoughts" in the aftermath of separation from her first husband, Jorge Arantes, a Portuguese journalist.

She is now one of the world's richest women, with a fortune estimated at 545m, but at the time lived in a cramped flat in Edinburgh with her baby daughter Jessica. Rowling was only able to afford the rent after a friend paid the 600 deposit. It was there she began writing the first Harry Potter book.

While Rowling, 42, has spoken before of her battle with depression, it is the first time she has admitted that she contemplated suicide. She said she finally sought professional help.

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"Mid-twenties life circumstances were poor and I really plummeted," said Rowling. "The thing that made me go for help . . . was probably my daughter. She was something that earthed me, grounded me, and I thought, this isn't right, this can't be right, she cannot grow up with me in this state."

Rowling said her usual GP was away, and the replacement doctor sent her away. "She said, 'If you ever feel a bit low, come and speak to the practice nurse' and dismissed me."

Rowling added: "We're talking suicidal thoughts here, we're not talking 'I'm a little bit miserable'.

Two weeks later I had a phone call from my regular GP who had looked back over the notes . . . She called me back in and I got counselling through her.

"She absolutely saved me because I don't think I would have had the guts to go and do it twice."

Cognitive behavioural therapy typically involves a series of sessions with a counsellor and is designed to help patients control negative thoughts. The technique is recommended by the health department for depressive disorders, anxiety, bulimia and posttraumatic stress disorder.

Rowling, whose Harry Potter novels have sold more than 400m copies worldwide and spawned a 7 billion industry, said she was happy to discuss her mental health problems to challenge the stigma associated with depressive illness.

"I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never," she said in an interview with Adeel Amini, 22, for a student magazine at Edinburgh University.

"What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that."

Mental health campaigners welcomed Rowling's decision to speak publicly about her struggle with suicidal depression.

Celia Richardson, campaigns director of the Mental Health Foundation, said: "JK Rowling is a wonderful role model and it's brilliant she has chosen to talk about this."

Link: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertai nment/books/article3602774.ece

Honestly, I admire this women. She has worked hard, overcame adversity and is still going strong. She deserves every bit of praise she gets.

@cezzurockz: Yes she's a woman. 😆

My dad told me this.. he heard it on the news or something. I really admire JK Rowling. It must've been really hard going through all of this, but she got through it bit by bit 👏 👏.

ofcourse m jokin yaaron 😆
bt thts a nice joke rite???? 😆