Author Sophie White on being a mother with Bipolar 2 in the ‘broken system’ Deirdre Morley had

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‘Being mentally ill is such a prison because you can’t amputate your brain, you know, you can’t kill off the bad bits and keep the good bits of the brain, you’re really stuck with the whole thing,’ explains Sophie White.

The author made the remarks on the Today with Claire Byrne show, in response to her opinion piece on the Deirdre Morley trial where she spoke of her Bipolar Two diagnosis saying ‘I have what she had.’ ‘I suppose I’m saying that I have a similar mental illness, I have a similar trajectory in that I’ve been hospitalised for my mental illness as she was, I’m saying that I have the same broken system that she has and I’m saying that mothers in Ireland have the same broken system’, ‘I have what she had.