EMILY OLSEN -- What if we started having different conversations? What if people could be viewed as normal AND have struggles with mental health stuff?
The other day I had the opportunity to speak with Emily Olsen, who some of you will know as the wife of Green Party MLA Adam Olsen. I asked for the opportunity to speak with her because like me, and millions of other Canadians, she had gone through her own journey with mental health ... and it was a subject she said could talk about all day long. It took her up on that offers and first asked, “ How do people take those first journeys to get there ...” So, I did go off my medication ... I went off cold turkey, and I’m okay, I’m still talking to you today. I went off the 2 nd week of September 2014. Essentially I’d kind of had enough, and had tried for years to go off medication. Every time I tried to go off I seemed to have this strange effect where I’d go into a state of a bit of anxiety and I would then be overwhelmed with just this awful life- consuming depression. I would kinda be on another planet for a month at a time ... and I would h...