23/05/2026
💜 Oh my… I read Hannah Murray’s article in the Guardian today and her words really stayed with me.
Many of you may know Hannah as an actress from Game of Thrones, and also from Channel 4’s Skins, where she played Cassie Ainsworth, a young woman struggling with her mental health in a way that touched so many people. 🫶
Now Hannah has written about her own experiences of psychosis and being sectioned in her book, and I think there is something incredibly brave and powerful about that. 📖💜
Writing about our lived experiences can be deeply cathartic. It can help us make sense of what happened, reclaim parts of ourselves, and also help others understand what mental illness can feel like from the inside, not just what it looks like from the outside. ✨
As many of you lovely folk know, my own lived experience includes bipolar manic episodes with psychosis and hospitalisation.
It can be frightening, confusing, overwhelming and deeply isolating... not just for the person experiencing it, but for the people who love them too. But behind every diagnosis, every crisis, every hospital admission, there is still a person. A whole person. A person who deserves kindness, dignity, patience and support. 🤗
I know what it is to lose touch with the world that other people are standing in.
I also know what it is to come back.
Recovery is possible. Rebuilding is possible. Finding your MoJoe again is possible...one small, brave step at a time. 💪💜
If Hannah’s story has touched something in you today, please remember: you are not alone. I am here. 🫶
Be kind to your mind 💜
In an exclusive extract from the actor’s memoir, she recalls the depths of her psychosis