Goodreads asked Margaret Robinson Rutherford:

How do you get inspired to write?

Margaret Robinson Rutherford For Perfectly Hidden Depression, I have been so passionate about how the trait of perfectionism is rising in our culture and its potential effect (which research is backing up) on increasing depression and suicide rates that that has served as immense inspiration. There are people who've already told me they needed to hear themselves explained in this way in order to validate that yes, indeed, something is wrong. That feeling in their gut that they've been trying to avoid is real. And it can be dangerous and destructive.

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