"I do want to be careful not to glamorise mental illness when it comes to creativity because more often than not it actually tends to inhibit creativity…"
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On avoiding perpetuating stereotypes about mental illness in “Esmé Weijun Wang: ‘I don’t want to glamorise mental illness… it inhibits creativity’” in The Guardian (2019 Jun29)
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