Below is a link to an interview
I came to it some minutes into the interview; before I recognised the voice I was greatly taken with what she was saying.
Brenda talks about her lifelong fight with depression; she speaks powerful words, she constantly feels she would like to die.
Do we ever give enough attention and care to those who suffer from all forms of depression and those who are afflicted with mental illness?
Who cares for those when they are down and out, depressed, drinking too much, those suffering burn out? What about women and men who are lonely and tired of their jobs.
Depression and mental illness know no boundaries.
Many words are spoken but sometimes they sound hollow.
Brenda Fricker's new book, 'She Died Young: A Life in Fragments’ has just been published.
It’s a personal story about her life, including struggles with mental health and sexual sexual abuse. She was raped on two occasions and says men simply cannot understand the damage that rape inflicts on a woman.
The interview:
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22545795/
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