Searching for Signs of Myself at the End of the World

Could pandemic fiction ever have prepared me — a clinically depressed person — for the COVID-19 crisis?

Olivia Campbell
7 min readAug 26, 2021

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When I first read about a novel coronavirus quickly spreading across China in late 2019, a great sense of foreboding washed over me. As someone with depression and anxiety, I felt an urgent need to…

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Olivia Campbell

New York Times bestselling author of WOMEN IN WHITE COATS. Bylines: The Atlantic, The Cut, Aeon, Smithsonian, Guardian. https://oliviacampbell.substack.com