Lis is joined by journalist, author and podcaster Fiona Thomas. Fiona was diagnosed with depression in 2012 and felt completely lost. She was unable to work for almost a year and turned to blogging, first as a hobby, but eventually as a means of honing her identity, creating a supportive community and building a successful freelance writing career, with work published on the likes of Metro, Healthline, Heads Together, Mind and Happiful magazine.
Fiona has recently published her first book, Depression in a Digital Age (https://amzn.to/2STn7Re). It’s a memoir about living with anxiety and the subsequent depression, and about how a digital life helped Fiona to find her community, her voice and herself. Emma Gannon calls it “a brilliantly honest reminder about how to control your online space and not let it control you”.
Fiona describes herself as a proud advocate for digital technology as a communication tool for those of us who suffer the often crippling symptoms of mental illness, and it’s in that spirit that we caught up for a chat.