Avoid fiction books by depressives

I'm sorry to sound unkind, and I'm not uncaring, as you know. But I've been boycotting depressive works of fiction (and music) for decades now because they are viral. Read this article and you'll see what I mean. I'm so tired of people with issues who become best selling authors in order to "vent" and "heal." The trouble is that instead of helping others, they reinforce the same depressive tendencies in their audience. Somehow people, especially women, have become hooked on books that virally spread the bleak experiences, real or imaginary, of people who use authorship to a wide audience as their own private Idaho of venting therapy. People used to love to read good solid literature that was "escapist," even if unvarnished views of humanity are presented, rather than "reinforcing" real or imaginary dark pits of mindset. Somehow people, especially women, think they "get better" by "knowing they are not alone," and hence read books that travel the depressive view of life over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

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