More than Writers

Blues - depression, low spirits from adjectival  blue  low-spirited. Late 14c. I thought long and hard about the subject of this blog, first, because on the face of it, it doesn’t have much to do with writing, and that’s what we’re doing here, right?  But also because it’s one of those subjects that We Don’t Like To Mention. A bit like Granny’s Little Secret, some things are best left undisturbed.  Disturbed: past participle adjective from disturb . Meaning "emotionally or mentally unstable", and used as one of the many euphemisms associated with mental health issues. Which is precisely why I’d like to talk about it today.  Now, quite frankly, mental health is a vast topic which I cannot hope to do justice, so I’m going to focus on the implications  for us as writers, as t here can be few who have not been affected, either directly or indirectly, by Winston Churchill’s black dog . It’s a well-known - if not yet fully understood...