Addiction In The Bell Jar

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Addiction is is a state of mind in which people have a powerful need to abuse substances. Depression is a a sickness in the mind that causes feelings of sadness and discouragement. How do novelist depict the correlation between depression and addiction in their novels? This question is asked to understand addiction and depression by reading from novels that depict each illness and then further seeing their correlation. By reading The Bell Jar one will be able to understand how a mind of a depressed character might think. One is limited of this source because it is a fictional novel which will have an effect of it’s reliability of depicting clinical depression. By using sources from Jstor, one can compare and find the factual
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