Xports News | ‘Speak Your Mind’ Korean Painter Kim Hyun Jung: “I Suffered Severe Depression in the Past, I Wanted to Die Every Day”
Korean painter Kim Hyun Jung confessed on JTBC's 'Speak Your Mind,' aired November 2, 2016, that she had once suffered severe depression. She said she was so hard hit that she couldn't even go outside, and wanted to die every day, but painting was her only friend, and she was able to overcome the depression thanks to encouraging comments received after posting her paintings on social media.
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[Xports News, reporter Jung Ji-won] Korean painter Kim Hyun Jung confessed her past.
Aired on JTBC's 'Speak Your Mind' on the 2nd were rapper Cheetah, Korean painter Kim Hyun Jung, and 'Monthly Surplus' editor Choi Seo-yoon.
On the day, Korean painter Kim Hyun Jung surprised everyone by confessing that she had once suffered severely from depression. Kim recalled, “My depression was so severe I couldn't even go outside. I wanted to die every day. I kept thinking, 'how could I possibly die?'”
She continued, “My only friend at the time was painting. And so I started posting my paintings on social media one at a time. Then people left comments so I wouldn't feel lonely,” revealing that she was able to recover from depression after starting art.
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