Jamila Rizvi & Rosie Waterland Want Us All To Be More Honest About Getting Sick

Every person in this world will be touched by mental or physical illness. Jamila and Rosie are just two of them. Here are their takeaways from an emotional and candid conversation about what it means to have a broken body or a broken brain.

By Natalie Cornish

Health Science

By Natalie Cornish

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In their lifetime, every person in this world will be touched by mental or serious physical illness. If it’s not you personally then it will be someone you know and love.

Yet becoming, and being, sick isn’t something we talk about very often – and certainly not something we talk about very well. Future Women’s Editor-at-Large Jamila Rizvi (who was diagnosed with a rare brain tumour) and comedian, author and screenwriter Rosie Waterland (who has battled depression) are on a mission to change that.

Future Women members were the first to hear that Jamila Rizvi and Rosie Waterland are writing a book on handling mental and serious physical illness. It will be published by Penguin in 2020.

If you or someone you know is seeking support and information about mental health or suicide prevention, contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or the Suicide Call Back Service on 1300 659 467.