From a young age, Lucy Nichol has always been on edge. Whether it's
because of her fear of beards, a general sense that she can catch a
disease from anything, or the belief that she's going to throw up at any
given moment, she's never really felt safe.
In A Series of Unfortunate Stereotypes, Lucy explores the different
lenses through which she - and other people - have viewed her mental
health problems. She tackles a number of different stereotypes placed on
people living with mental illness, including the idea that they are
narcissists, hypochondriacs, and psychos.After writing a blog post about
her journey, Lucy realised that she wasn't alone in feeling this way.
And so she began to talk more about her experience, eventually becoming
a columnist in Sarah Millican's magazine Standard Issue. In writing
about her life in such an open way, Lucy has been able to claw her way
out of her anxiety.A Series of Unfortunate Stereotypes is one of the
most fortunate things you could read!