32. December chats - medication, rejections and whether art is a way of life

TMDTA hosts Rebecca Toal and Hattie Butterworth discuss their experiences taking psychiatric medication following Dr Alex George's PostYourPill campaign. They talk about the stigma and image around being someone with a mental illness within the classical music world and how important campaigns like this are for normalising people's experiences.They also talk over the Royal Opera House's recent merchandise, featuring Margot Fonteyn's statement of the all-consuming nature of art as a way of life. We discuss whether or not we agree and also move onto talk about rejection, Rebecca's recent auditions and how traumatising rejection from the National Youth Orchestra was for Hattie!If you want to keep up with us, we are online pretty much everywhere!Transcript of this episodeFollow us on instagram!And TwitterOur websiteBuy our stickersOr buy us a coffee!Support the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.