The author chatted with Tommy Tiernan about life after a nervous breakdown
Dublin writer and podcaster Sophie White has been praised for giving an “honest” interview with Tommy Tiernan on Saturday night’s show about her struggles with mental health.
On the show, the pair chatted initially about how they had both written columns for the Sunday Independent before the conversation shifted towards Sophie’s other writings. “My first book was called Recipies For A Nervous Breakdown and it was a cookbook slash memoir, and it was about a nervous breakdown I had when I was 22.“I was going along doing the normal things. I would have considered myself to be a respectable drug taker. I wouldn’t have thought I had engaged in risky behaviour or anything.
“One night I took a pill, it was at Electric Picnic in 2007 and it was like a switch flipped and my life flipped into a nightmare, I can pretty much say I have never been the same its almost like my life leading up to that age at 22 just fell off a cliff and I have never been that person I was ever again I was ever again.”“It’s like anguish and terror. Sometimes people hear depression and they think sad when so much of mental illness is terror.
“It was when I started to plan my suicide that I finally said I need to give this one last shot and go to the psychiatrist.”“Sophie White articulately adding to the normalisation of discussion around mental health conditions and issues. Raw and unvarnished. Big kudos to herm” one Twitter user posted.One more simply posted: “Sophie white amazing woman.”READ NEXT:
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