Out of the Blue: a Memoir of Workplace Depression, Recovery, Redemption and, Yes, Happiness

✍ Scribed by Jan Wong

Publisher: BookBaby
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

For twenty years, Jan Wong had been one of her newspaper's best-known reporters. Then one day she turned in a story that set off a firestorm of controversy, including death threats, a unanimous denunciation by Parliament and a rebuke by her own newspaper. For the first time in her professional life, Wong fell into a severe clinical depression. Yet she resisted the diagnosis, refusing to believe she had a mental illness. As it turned out, so did her company and insurer. With wit, grace and insight, Wong tells the harrowing tale of her struggle with workplace-caused depression, and of her eventual emergence ... Out of the Blue.

✦ Subjects

Biography & Autobiography; Nonfiction; BIO025000

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