Elizabeth Day
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5,372 appearances
35 recordings
8 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 4d ago
Elizabeth Day’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When was your first understanding of the fact that you had been sectioned?
It does.
You were 27.
What was your experience of medication during these three weeks?
The reason you told me that you have chosen to talk about this, or part of the reason, is because you felt so much shame over having been sectioned.
Yeah.
Could you explore that a little bit more with me?
I find it staggeringly beautiful.
And also because of what you were talking about, about being chosen and birthing this utopia in a way.
Perhaps part of your purpose is to have made that so clear that there is so much othering of things that we can't understand or feel fearful of.
And actually you've reminded these people of their own humanity and how we all exist on this spectrum.
Yeah.
That's the power of, that's the magic of what you're doing.
The othering is interesting as well, because we live in a culture.
I mean, here we are on my podcast, which talks, which has a lot of sort of therapy adjacent language to it.
And how great that we can live in a culture where we are encouraged to talk about anxiety and
Things like that.
However, I do think that if there is a negative to the overwhelm of that conversation, it is that things that exist on a more extreme end of the spectrum get overlooked, othered and underfunded.
And I just wondered what your take was on that, on the kind of mental health language that is so current right now, and in some instances quite adjacent to the wellness industry of it all, and like real serious clinical mental health issues, whether it be bipolar disorder, living with schizophrenia, the impact that has on families, whether you think there's enough attention to pay to that?
You end up with a diagnosis of bipolar.
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