With this personal essay I wanted to focus upon my struggle with depression. Everything came to head this past Summer (and well, Spring and last Fall) and I'm trying to develop an essay that makes my point known. I think that I might also try to make the essay a bit more personal - about why I feel depressed and how I figured it all out. By looking at the autopsy, it ticked something in me that I really didn't realize. I didn't mind being dead and seeing the human body laid out like that - so, so very dead made me realize it even more. I'm going to bring that particular focus to a sharper point in the essay (or at least try to)
I'm not exactly sure who my audience is yet. I'm thinking along the lines of mental health. My experience with depression should fit well with that particular audience. But, I also want to find an audience that is outside that field. I think the essay could fit into an anthology of memoris/personal essays and do well.
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Good ideas for audience. And of course your audience will shape your purpose. Depression is not well understood by the general public - not even by the families of people who are depressed.
I think a reflection on why you were depressed and how it worked would make powerful material.
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