The Panic Years

17: This Is An Emergency. With Laura Dockrill


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This week I spoke to the children’s author, illustrator and writer Laura Dockrill. Her book, What Have I Done covers her experience of post-partum psychosis, feeling suicidal and, eventually, getting well. We discuss all of these things in the episode so it carries
a trigger warning: mentions of suicide, psychosis and mental illness.

You can follow Laura on Twitter
at @LauraDockrill https://twitter.com/LauraDockrill
on Instagram at @lauraleedockrill https://www.instagram.com/lauraleedockrill/?hl=en.
You can buy her book, What Have I Done here https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1117973/what-have-i-done-/9781529110210.html#:~:text=This%20heart%2Dbreaking%20and%20uplifting,and%20Laura%20started%20to%20struggle.


I also interviewed NHS psychiatrist and mental health campaigner Dr Benjamin Janaway about how someone gets admitted to a psychiatric hospital and what treatment they may receive. You can follow him on Twitter at @drjanaway https://twitter.com/drjanaway.

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