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Taking pride in household chores really can ease depression

31 August 2019

9:00 AM

31 August 2019

9:00 AM

There are many books about what it’s like to live with mental illness and the aftermath of child sexual abuse. Most of them, though, fall into that deeply off-putting category of ‘misery memoir’: greyscale covers and cloying titles such as ‘The Child Who Everyone Hurt’ and ‘When the Darkness Never Lifts’.

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