Abstract
Paula Green is now twenty-eight years old; she is the second child in a family of four. She first became depressed at the age of eighteen, but determinedly coped with it for a few years without medical help. In this interview Paula speaks of the most difficult years of her illness.
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. —Shakespeare
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Spitzer, T. (1980). Facing Reality. In: Psychobattery. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5997-8_6
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