Short version: I could not find a publisher for my manuscript.
Longer version
1) I had to process the whole thing = madness through with care, and writing about it was the best way (for me).
2) At some point while writing the letter/story, I started to think that hey, this might make a pretty good book someday, maybe.
3) Much later – after editing the original letter/text to a book manuscript – I spent about eighteen months trying to find a publisher for it. Then I got tired of waiting. Also, due to the current situation (April 2021 when I created my Finnish website) I don't think that mental health problems – generally speaking – are becoming less common?
4) I love to read books – especially biographies – and I like to think that my experience was something worth telling. I hope that my story will bring joy to – or perhaps even help? – some people. Well, a few. Couple. Even one?
5) I have now publicly told about the time when I was crazy – but so what? I do not bother to bother my brain with what other people on the Internet might think about my story/me, maybe. The past is in the past. Also, in a case like this – in my opinion – telling the author's name is pretty much "mandatory" for the sake of credibility – or something like that.
6) It was fun to both write and to make the Finnish website https://eihullumpireissu.net It was also fun to translate my story from Finnish to English, and to make the website you are reading right now. In addition, having my own websites = I could make them look just the way I wanted to.
7) The Internet and the idea of what the Internet can be.
8) As one of my friends once said: "You have always been a bit of an oddball," so why not? :)
PS. I like to call my story a book, even though it is actually an unpublished manuscript (for a book). Or just a manuscript. Or something. Anyway, I call it a book, hope you don't mind. But if you do, you can call this number: 4
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