Juliette Burton
Specialisms: Living with mental illness, body image, social media, resilience, kindness, multiple diagnoses, being sectioned
Juliette is a mental health campaigner, comedian and a writer, who has sold-out runs at Edinburgh Festival since 2015.
In 2018 she was listed as Sunday Times Culture Pick, The Times Best of Edinburgh Festivals 2018 and The Telegraph Top 25 Rising Stars of Edinburgh Fringe. Juliette has contributed to Cosmopolitan, The Huffington Post, BBC Radio 4’s Newsjack and the BBC News.
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She has a long history of mental health conditions and has been diagnosed with anorexia, anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, bulimia, compulsive overeating disorder, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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She continues on an ongoing journey of recovery, is still in therapy and manages her mental health one day at a time. Juliette is an ambassador for mental health charity ReThink Mental Illness.
