Sophie White: 'I assumed I'd never have a family, a career or a day free of thoughts of violence and suicide. But these things are possible'

Carrière has been through an awful lot and her unflinching prose is incredible but what I could not get over was that here at last, nearly 20 years later, I was reading about someone who went through the same kind of breakdown that I did at 22.

All it took was one pill and one hellish endless night to completely demolish the person I had been.

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