Owning Mental Illness with Sophie White

<p>Buy Sophie White's book My Hot Friend <a href="https://www.easons.com/my-hot-friend-tpb-sophie-white-9781529352757" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>. Sign up to my Substack with 20% off for more Owning It related content and to connect personally <a href="https://carolineforan.substack.com/Janoffer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HERE</a>. </p><br><p>I am joined here by award winning bestselling author and columnist Sophie White. Sophie shares her story with me, the pivotal moment at the age of 22 that changed everything, the diagnosis of bipolar II she would later receive, the anxiety of needing psychiatric care versus what it was really like and how she eventually began to own her mental illness. I want to include a trigger warning (TW) here as Sophie does discuss a particularly tough point of suicidal ideation that she reached in her mid 20s. Now a mother of three and an incredibly successful writer, I hope that Sophie's story gives reassurance to tho...