Erica Crompton is an exceptional spokesperson on mental health issues, psychosis and schizophrenia. She is enticing audiences with her unique personal story of illness. Erica has a history of paranoid schizophrenia with a current diagnosis of schizo-affective disorder and lived experience of psychosis.

While dealing with her own illness, she has still managed to maintain a job as a freelance journalist. She has handled her illness with therapy and medication for almost two decades. During this period, Erica spent one week on psychiatric ward in 2009 after surviving a suicide attempt in a run-down flatshare in Birmingham, UK. As a keynote speaker, Erica inspires audiences with her unique story of living with psychosis and schizophrenia.

She has a master's degree in creative writing and undergraduate degrees in journalism and is working part-time as a freelance journalist and editor. Erica is a former Editor of Ophthalmology Times Europe. Additionally, she has held long-term and full-time staff positions at The Daily Telegraph, the Mail Online, John Lewis’ head office and as a radio script writer at UTV, all while experiencing psychosis. Working as a freelance journalist,

Erica has written about her mental illness for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Lancet Psychiatry, Woman Magazine, The Mail on Sunday and Chat. Erica is the founder of Hopezine, a small and independent magazine and website written for, and by patients who have overcome adversity. In Hopezine, Erica challenges the mental health stigma using colourful images and storytelling.

In 2020, her debut book titled ‘The Beginner’s Guide to Sanity, a self-help book for people with psychosis’ is out. The book is written together with Professor Stephen Lawrie and is being published by Hammersmith Health Books. She's also author of The Mind Surfer, a collected "best of" Hopezine and A Look at Schizophrenia in Art. She is able to bring her books and magazines to talks free of charge for clients to distribute.