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.
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“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.”
“For the next three months, I lived every day in that dread-drenched nightmare.
“It’s like anguish and terror. Sometimes people hear depression and they think sad when so much of mental illness is terror. The terror that this will never go away, the terror I will never feel normal.
“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.”
Viewers flocked to social media to praise the author for the “honest and amazing” interview.
“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.
Another added: “Wow Sophie White. Amazing and honest. Thank you for sharing your story.”
One more simply posted: “Sophie white amazing woman.”
Someone else posted: “A brutally honest interview by Sophie White on Tommy Tiernan Show tonight.”
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