She made an online series on mental health issues for the BBC and has worked with mental health charities. This was recognised in 2015, when she was appointed as an honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2015 Special Honours for services to mental health.[30] In an episode of the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? in 2017, Wax revealed that her great-grandmother and great-aunt had been committed to mental asylums in Brno and Vienna as they were incurably "agitated".[31]