I've written a lot about stuff I know a lot about in terms of mental health and various things, but I've always done that from a distance where I've already done a lot of the work and am a very different person at a different stage of my life. It's easier to look back and then translate that into a character that is *nothing like you*, or go at it sideways and write it almost allegorically, so the core is very real, but the way it comes out on page is not recognisable to how it happened.