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Hello, dear listener, and welcome to Owning at the Anxiety podcast with me, Caroline Foran.substack.com. Thank you. Hello, dear listener, and welcome to owning it the anxiety podcast

with me, Caroline Forin. On this episode, I am joined by award-winning, best-selling author and columnist Sophie White.

Sophie so articulately shares her story with me, the pivotal moment at the age of 22 that changed

everything, the diagnosis of bipolar

two she would later receive, the anxiety of needing psychiatric care versus what it was

really like to get it, and how she eventually began to own her mental illness.

I want to include a trigger warning here as Sophie does go into detail on a particularly

tough point where she was having suicidal thoughts.

Now a mother of three and an incredibly successful and really talented, hilarious writer,

I hope that Sophie's story gives reassurance to those struggling with mental illness, whether or not it's bipolar or more chronic anxiety, as was the case for me,

that it won't always define you or be

all that you ever do. There's so much to discuss with Sophie, we actually decided towards the end of this

episode that we would make it a two-parter. So this first episode is Sophie's story right up until

she gets a handle on things after her first most significant episode. And then we'll follow up in a few

short weeks with how her story continued

when she became a parent, which is an experience that for many of us can be fraught with an

anxiety in itself. Thank you so much for listening and for being here. And please, please consider,

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