P.D. Workman asked P.D. Workman:

Your books often deal with serious real-life issues like mental illness, addiction and abuse. Why do you take this approach?

P.D. Workman I really feel compelled to speak for those who have been marginalized and misunderstood. A lot of times, that means I am writing about abuse and mental illness. When I see an injustice, I want to tell people about it and to make them see it. The way I communicate those things is through story.

The topics that I feel the need to tell stories about may be in the news, something I have seen or experienced, or topics that my friends and readers email me about or send me articles on. They have talked to me about EDS, hair strand testing, electric shocks of autistic individuals, medical kidnap, the marginalization of aboriginal youth, and other topics that I’m sure I’m not remembering right now. It is incredibly gratifying to get an email from someone who says “thank you for writing about this” because it helps them not to feel so alone.

It is also so good to hear "I never knew that this was happening. I googled it as soon as I finished reading your book, and it's a real thing! I couldn't believe I'd never heard it before." Because that means I'm doing my job. I'm educating at the same time as I'm entertaining and people are really “getting it.”

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