Episode 56: Tracey Maxfield: Escaping The Rabbit Hole and Helping Our Young People Do the Same
Tracey Maxfield is a retired nurse with over 36 years’ experience in gerontology, mental health, and dementia care. Tracey experienced her first episode of clinical depression in her twenties and lived with chronic depression ever since. However, nothing prepared her for the acute depressive episode she experienced in 2015. After enduring years of intense workplace stress, harassment and bullying, she plummeted into an abyss of darkness, hopelessness and despair the likes of which she had never experienced before.
Encouraged by a psychologist, Tracey started a Blog, Escaping the Rabbit Hole: my life with depression, to better help her friends understand her depression. Over time, Tracey began to heal and found that out of the darkness and despair, there is hope, there is life after depression.
Her blog became a bestselling book, Escaping the Rabbit Hole: my journey through depression, a brutally honest, raw, and vivid description of what life is like after experiencing an acute depressive episode. It was whilst visiting a school as an author to speak about creative writing and her career that she discovered just how many children could relate to her story. Tracey is now a successful podcast host of the Engage, Educate, Empower podcast, a Speaker and Mental Health Advocate who highlights how important it is to support our children with their mental health and how we can begin to do so.
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