Joy Andersson is an author and has the social media channel; Livet som plural/Life as Plural, where she posts about her life with mental illness whenever she can. Joy's wish is to become so good in the future that she will be able to lecture about mental illness.

Joy was born in 1985. She has been a qualified teacher since 2008, for ages 1-12, in the subjects Swedish, English, Mathematics and Social Studies. After Joy became ill in 2014 and then retired on disability in 2020, she unfortunately had to put her teaching profession on the shelf. She is still passionate about spreading knowledge. Especially about mental illness, treatment in healthcare and what it is like to be a parent and live with mental illness.

Joy lives with several psychiatric diagnoses, with the main diagnosis being Dissociative Identity Disorder. She also has PTSD, recurrent depression, anxiety, eating disorders, self-harm and several suicide attempts. Due to the suicide attempts, Joy also lives with a probable anoxic brain injury.