"It’s not that an antidepressant will make people unafraid of this mysterious and awful virus, nor that a single hug will mitigate their profound aloneness, but they can help."
Writer, journalist and psychology professor Andrew Solomon is the author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression.
The book won the 2001 National Book Award, was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, and was included in The Times' list of the 100 best books of the decade.
His other books include Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity (2012) and Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change (2016).
Having lived with long term depression himself, he is concerned at the toll the coronavirus pandemic is taking on people’s mental health.
Writer and lecturer Andrew Solomon Photo: Supplied/Annie Leibovitz
