Everyday Health
spoke with Lawson about this crisis in healthcare coverage.
EH: You’ve written a lot about your struggles to get covered by your health insurance. What toll did that take on you emotionally and physically?
JL: It’s so hard to fight for your care when you are sick. It can be even harder when you’re dealing with mental illness, because you are exhausted from the lies that depression is telling you: that it’s all in your head, that it will never get better, that you’re not worth the time and effort and money it will take to get treatment. When your insurance company tells you that they don’t think you should have the treatment either, it’s so easy to give up, because you’ve been hearing those same lies for so long from your own mind.