Who is Georgia Brask?

Georgia is born 1994 in England, where she spends the first ten years of her life with her mother, father and younger brother. She grows up in South West London and attends Broomwood Hall School, where school uniforms are mandatory and a typical day lasts from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (not including homework). It is quickly apparent that Georgia is exceptionally gifted, as she can read and understand what she is reading at the age of two, and after reading aloud complex medical terms at a doctor’s office, her parents get her intelligence tested at the age of four. Later, when Georgia is ten, she receives her official IQ, which is 152 on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children and places her in the top 0.01 % of the population.

Academically, school is a breeze for Georgia, but she struggles socially and, upon moving to Denmark in 2005, is severely bullied from day one. Nasty comments, social exclusion and blatant cruelty take their toll and, at the age of 17, Georgia suffers a catastrophic psychotic breakdown which leads to her being sectioned to a youth psychiatric ward. She discovers, during her seven months in hospital, that it is not considered “normal” to have heard voices in your head since childhood and receives a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia.

Since then, her primary focus has been her recovery, learning as much as humanly possible about the illness and rebuilding her life accordingly, picking up all the shattered pieces that resulted from her psychosis and carefully putting them back together.

Georgia is inherently creative, having always enjoyed drawing and writing. She went to ceramics for 11 years with her beloved Danish grandfather, “Farfar”, until his death in 2024. Farfar gently helped her back to her artistic side after her illness made it difficult to even consider holding a pencil … he was an extraordinary man with whom Georgia shared a special bond. Thanks to the incredible support of her Farfar, wonderful family and friends, Georgia was able to slowly introduce art and writing back into her life, starting a blog in 2016 and selling art through her creative business, Mr Mouse Design. Now, she is a published author of two books about her life with the illness – one in Danish, “Georgias Stemme(r)” (which means “Georgia’s Voice(s)”), and one in English, “Voices Off: Talking About Schizophrenia”.