5 Quotes & Sayings By Jan Wong

Jan Wong is a Canadian-based writer and journalist. Her writing has been published in The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Maclean's Magazine, and others. She is a regular contributor to the "National Post" and "The Globe and Mail" business sections. She has also written for the Toronto Star's Style section Read more

She has appeared on CBC Radio's "Ideas," CBC Television's "The Fifth Estate," CTV Television's "W5," and the TVOntario documentary series "Daylight." Wong is a member of the Writers' Union of Canada.

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…depressive realism. Depression is not the near death experience described by so many, [Kayla Dunn] suggests, but a rebirth in which the new psyche has removed self-delusion. Compared with so-called healthy individuals, depressives are more realistic in their worldview. Jan Wong
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Keedwell cites a study of depression in the Netherlands that found that most people coped better with adversity after experiencing depression. Jan Wong
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Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters. Jan Wong
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In Chinese the word for crisis is weiji composed of the character wei which means danger and ji which means opportunity. Jan Wong