by Sophie Mei Lan | May 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
Last week, I found myself on the floor crying with my mental health drugs scattered around me. “I just don”t know what medication I’m taking,” I wailed. It all sounds very over the top for a simple issue as not understanding a prescription. But...
by Sophie Mei Lan | Nov 23, 2018 | Health, Uncategorized
I was invited on to daytime TV recently, ITV This Morning, to talk about my anxiety and panic attacks, in light of footage of me being released by Channel Mum from my Vlog experiencing an Anxiety Attack. My vlog had been shared online alongside the results of the...
by Sophie Mei Lan | Aug 9, 2018 | Health, Life
I have spent the last few weeks like a zombie, swamped by my mental illness. I have been given lots of drugs to numb my anxiety, dull my psychotic episodes and to keep me as safe as possible whilst I go through this mental health breakdown. The Crisis (home-based...
by Sophie Mei Lan | Jul 22, 2018 | Health, Uncategorized
We’ve all got mental health but not necessarily a mental illness. There’s a big difference. “I am just so depressed.” “I feel anxious.” Through all the brilliant work on ending the taboo around mental illness, have we now opened the flood gates to...
by Sophie Mei Lan | Nov 26, 2017 | Health
I’ll never forget the wailing in the room next door to mine. It sounded as if someone was being violently attacked. The girl was screaming and yelling “no, stop.” Well that’s as much as I could make out. But she wasn’t being attacked. She was being fed a protein...