What is Life as a Lunatic?
Broadly, it’s a newsletter about mental health. Specifically, it’s some tips, tricks, and musings to cope with trauma and symptoms of borderline personality disorder, PTSD, anxiety, and depression, informed by a lifetime of lived experience. Some samples of topics you might encounter:
Why should you subscribe?
I mean, you certainly don’t have to. If you’re looking for strategies to cope with symptoms of mental illness like depression, trauma, anxiety, self-harm, low self-esteem (and much more), this might be the free monthly(ish) newsletter for you or someone you love.
Who am I?
I’m Miranda Newman, bestselling author of Rough Magic, a collection about living with borderline personality disorder. My work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, Broadview Magazine, The Walrus, and more. My story, “Kids in Crisis,” received an honourable mention from the National Magazine Awards. From 2021 to 2022, I was a Fellow at Yale University’s program for recovery and community health. In my spare time, I sit on numerous mental health advisory councils. I live in Toronto, Canada.
I’m not a doctor, nor an expert on treating mental illness, and nothing in this newsletter should be interpreted as medical advice.
