How To Cure Reader’s Block

The Duffer's Diary
5 min readJul 19, 2021

This under-recognised mental illness symptom is beatable with the right approach

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I can’t take credit for the term Reader’s Block. It was Joanne Harris (Writer of among other things, “Chocolat” who is a flipping delight on Twitter) who coined it when I commented a reply along the lines of “you know….that thing…..when your mental health is so crap that you can’t read anymore…”.

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The Duffer's Diary

Mental health, parenting, politics, history and ranting at an indifferent universe. Sometimes funny. Just had an accidental 9 month hiatus from writing.