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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Yes.
And I'm going to do something that you might find embarrassing, but there was just such an extraordinary description of it in your book that I would love, with your permission...
to read.
Yeah.
Okay.
It was easy to mention the bad things first, to talk about times I'd been depressed or obviously fucked up.
I told him about my drug use, my heavy drinking, my self-harm, the periods of lying in bed for days or weeks at a time when I'd wanted to go to sleep and never wake up, the stronger desire to actively commit suicide.
But there was something else that felt both trickier and more important to describe.
It was the sense of magic I had always known long before the organisation had come into my life.
moments of euphoria flashes of something infinite and sublime i described a time in my teenage years walking around an art gallery in a state of rapture rapture at the paintings yes but it was more than that it was the experience of simply being in a room every cell in my body burning with life and every tiny sensation feeling like a miracle i described how this feeling had appeared sporadically from adolescence onwards how i had never been able to control how it came and went
how I had always wanted more, more, more of it, but how it had been punctuated with deep dives into darkness and misery.
I told him how my emotional and mental landscape had always been one of extremes.
I understood, I think, on some level, that my experiences on the course and in the hospital were an extension of something I had known and felt before, exaggerated and amplified, but not entirely unfamiliar.
I think that is one of the best descriptions of something that probably lies beyond words to so many people that I've ever read.
And so many people are going to feel seen and understood in those words.
And I just want to salute you for it.
Thank you.
No easy question.
Yeah.
That must be so difficult.
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