Welcome to episode 132 with Michelle Thomas who is a writer and the author of My Sh*t Therapist and Other Mental Health Stories.
One day Michelle started crying at work and couldn’t stop. She would end up spending the next two weeks in bed and would eventually have to leave her job.
As part of her recovery journey, she started medication and started going to therapy and began looking at different parts of her life that had impacted on her mental health and contributed to her being unwell.
She wrote about this process and her experience with mental illness and bad therapists in her book and in this episode, I chat to Michelle about her mental health and how a series of life events all arrived at once and caused her mental state to collapse.
We also chat about medication, self-care, running and how mental illness isn’t always about the extremes but more often about managing in the middle.
I enjoyed this conversation so much! Michelle has some wonderful insights about mental health and we explore her traffic light system, the good and the bad things about therapy and why it’s important to include everybody in the mental health conversation.
You can find out more about Michelle and her work here: www.michellethomas.org and connect with her on social media @msmthomas.
Her book, My Sh*t Therapist and Other Mental Health Stories, is available everywhere and it’s really good read with loads of useful and amusing ideas and stories about mental health.
You can connect with me on social media @propermentalpodcast or via www.propermentalpodcast.com.
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