Who I am
By day, Emma Woolley is an online editor/content manager for multiple magazine websites. She edits, writes, and makes it all happen.
By night, she takes on writing, editing, proofing, and assorted web work. She also writes stories that she has trouble finishing. She blogs sporadically about various things, ranging from books, magazines, and music; to media, culture, and feminist issues.
Emma sometimes talks about things. She’s appeared on BBC’s World Have Your Say, CBC’s Metro Morning, and TVO’s The Agenda.
She is a shameless product of 90s melodic punk and is very fond of cycling, vintage, board games, and her two kittens: Simon and Chloe.
Emma,
You were absolutely fantastic on The Agenda tonight. My younger brother showed first symptoms of schizophrenia during his time at college and it was almost a decade before he was able to get the help he needed.
I am a Mom of four and my oldest son is in grade 11 so tonight’s chat hit home.
I greatly appreciate your candor and wish you all the best.
Kim
Kim, thank you. That means a lot. I’m hoping that programs like this can help us get the funding and services we need to treat mental health issues effectively. All the best to your son! Hopefully he *does* have the greatest time of his life.
I agree with Kim, Emma. You appear to have a very sound head on your shoulder, albeit ‘scrambled’ in past times. As someone who has had bouts of depression and decades of anxiety/panic attacks along with running the compulsive-obsessive treadmill, I know that someone who has never experienced it just has no idea what it’s like to have your brain turn against you. I can say that because before ‘stuff’ happened, I thought I knew about it, but you can never really know until it happens to you. There are truly two worlds out there that people live in – the world of those that have had mental illness, and the world of those that think they know what it is.