S2 E5: Mental Health Matters on The Festive Season challenges and a few trifles and tidbits with a bit of Nick Cave

Welcome to The Ebbs and The Flows, soft chats about hard stuff.Edited by The Ebbs and The FlowsThank you to Chantelle Clark for designs used to promote this episodeOn this episode of The Ebbs and The Flows, William talks about why Mental Health Matters in a solo chat about the challenges some of us face in a period where we are expected to feel joy and happiness, be it struggling to cut back, loneliness, difficult conversations with relatives or friends, grief and loss, as well as a conversation about conflict and the duality of beauty and brutality in relation to the conflict in the Middle East and an ode to those who joined us in 2023. Mental Health Matters focuses on the intimate details of how our mental health can make us feel ashamed, humiliated and isolated if we do not discuss the many faces of mental health. The misunderstood nature of these disorders and conditions is rife throughout society - so why not talk about them? Acknowledgements: Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0spQCw35D4Poem by Fadwa Tuqan: https://pij.org/articles/93/enough-for-me The Ebbs and the Flows is an emotional health movement focused on openness and transparency about the light and the shade of the lives we led and journeys we encounter. The Ebbs and the Flows is not a licensed mental health service and therefore if you are seeking mental health advice, assessment or treatment, you should seek expert advice with a GP, psychologist, psychiatrist or in a crisis, call Lifeline on 13 11 14.For those struggling, or who know somebody who is, help is available:@lifelineaustralia 13 11 14@beyondblueofficial 1300 22 46361800-RESPECT (1800 737 732)@headspace_aus 1800 650 890@kidshelplineau 1800 55 1800For advice specific to Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people @13yarn 13 92 76For LGBTQIA+ specific advice @qlife_aus1800 184 527The Ebbs and The Flows website: www.theebbsandtheflows.comSubstack: https://substack.com/@theebbsandtheflows For The Ebbs and The Flows Instagram page head to https://www.instagram.com/theebbsandtheflows/At the end of the day, we are all just a work in progress.