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John Green’s New Mental Illness Inspired Book Will Be His Most Personal Work to

April 24, 2018

On Thursday, John Green announced his new book, “Turtles All the Way Down,” which comes out later this year, is inspired by his own experiences with mental illness, namely obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Green is best known for his book “The Fault in Our Stars,” which was turned into a movie in 2014.

Green said in a statement that he has been working on “Turtles All the Way Down” for years and that “this is my first attempt to write directly about the kind of mental illness that has affected my life since childhood, so while the story is fictional, it is also quite personal.”

Green has been open about his experiences with anxiety and OCD in the past and has been an advocate for the destigmatization of mental illness.