{"id":83057,"date":"2025-08-20T06:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/83057\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T06:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:53:08","slug":"sophie-white-people-have-no-idea-how-frightening-it-is-to-live-inside-a-broken-brain-none-of-us-realise-how-strong-we-are-until-we-have-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/83057\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie White: \u2018People have no idea how frightening it is to live inside a broken brain. None of us realise how strong we are until we have to be\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nAhead of the launch of her new novel, Sophie White talks about how frightening it can be to live with mental illness, why writing is a vocation, and how she blends light and darkness in her work\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u201cYou know those school reports that were like, \u2018Yeah, she could be brilliant but\u2026\u2019 That was me.\u201d Photo: Evan Doherty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/c2c392a1-3d17-4fb2-8666-de25f03e55ff.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">\u201cYou know those school reports that were like, \u2018Yeah, she could be brilliant but\u2026\u2019 That was me.\u201d Photo: Evan Doherty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">On Sophie White\u2019s first day at the National College of Art and Design, she had a lecture. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t the kind of course with a lot of lectures,\u201d she smiles, tucking a marshmallow-hued bang behind her ears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cEverything was practical. But this was one where they got us all in a room and went around asking us why we liked to make art.\u201d White had never considered why she liked to make art, or why she had directed her entire life towards this purpose. \u201cI was so nervous but, in the end, I said that I liked being able to tell stories beyond words,\u201d she says, solemnly. \u201cWhich is really ironic now\u2026\u201d she adds, masking a self-deprecating laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the launch of her new novel, Sophie White talks about how frightening it can be to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,49787,393,394,49788],"class_list":{"0":"post-83057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-life-magazine","12":"tag-mental-health","13":"tag-mentalhealth","14":"tag-sophie-white"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}