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Claire Donald

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

A quote that she said in the White Album that I'm just like, damn.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

She said, I was supposed to have a script and I had mislaid it.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

And I feel like with depression in your life, that's exactly how it feels almost.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Damn.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

I was supposed to have a script and I mislaid it.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

So she's going through it.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

And in 1969, she's actually hospitalized.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Doctors evaluate her psychological state and she's diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and emotional fragility.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Oh.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Oh.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Emotional fragility, I'm like... I mean, like, diagnose me with that.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Same.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

I should be diagnosed with that.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Was she able to get on medication?

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Was this a time where they were like, here's an anti-anxiety option?

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

I feel like if it was medication, it wasn't anti-anxiety.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

It was like the uppers and the downers.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

You know what I mean?

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

It's like, let's drill something into your skull vibe still, probably.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Well, that's why I'm so grateful that Joan is in the 60s and not in the 30s and then 40s.