What is Life as a Lunatic?
Broadly, it’s a newsletter about mental health. More specifically, it’s some tips and tricks to cope with trauma and symptoms of mental illness like borderline personality disorder, informed by a lifetime of lived experience. Some samples of topics you might encounter:
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) and favourite people (FPs)
Finding courageous love through Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy
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, a writer and editor from Toronto (Tkaronto), Canada. My writing has been published in The Walrus, The Literary Review of Canada, Broadview Magazine, 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 Lived Experience Transformational Leadership Academy. In my spare time, I sit on numerous mental health advisory councils.
I’m not a doctor, nor an expert on treating mental illness, and nothing in this newsletter should be interpreted as medical advice. I am; however, a lifelong sufferer of mental illness and have gleaned a lot of useful coping methods that might be of help to others.
