“We’re talking suicidal thoughts here, we’re not talking ‘I’m a little bit miserable,’ ” Rowling told student Adeel Amini

“Mid-twenties life circumstances were poor and I really plummeted. 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.”

“The funny thing is, I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never … I think I’m abnormally shameless on that account because what’s to be ashamed of?”

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