Category: Psychology & self-help

My Boyfriend Says I Have Depression
男友说我得了抑郁症

By Miss Xu

●A powerful first-person account of battling mental illness with love
and patience
This book is a powerful first-person account of battling mental illness
with love, patience, and coming to terms with oneself. It gained
860,000 views and a 9.2 rating on Read Douban, the book’s original
digital publishing platform. Korean readers give high rating 9.0 on
yes24.com.

This book is full of joyful and contemplative episodes in which Miss Xu
offers a fresh and entertaining look at life with a focus on female
development. Her honesty in this book is not only inspiring for people
with experience of mental illness, but also demystifying for people who
do not yet understand this increasingly prevalent condition. Miss Xu
graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at
Peking University. She has published in literary magazines such as
Furong and Shilin. My Boyfriend Says I Have Depression is in production for a television adaptation.

Author

Miss Xu, born in Beijing in 1987, graduated from the Chinese Department of Peking University. Her works have appeared in publications such as “Furong” and “Shilin”. “My Boyfriend Says I Have Depression” was first serialized on Douban Read, and a film adaptation of this work is currently inproduction.