Episodes
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Gentle Giant! Big Tom in his own words. Part 2
Ireland's legendary King of Country Music, Big Tom McBride has passed away at the age of 81. He became an unlikely star over 50 years ago as part of the Castleblaney based show band, The Mainliners. He would become the voice of a generation, both in Ireland and England. This is the second of two...
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Gentle Giant! Big Tom in his own words.
Ireland's legendary King of Country Music, Big Tom McBride has passed away at the age of 81. He became an unlikely star over 50 years ago as part of the Castleblaney based show band, The Mainliners. He would become the voice of a generation, both in Ireland and England. This is one of two...
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Let's Talk About It talks to Tolly Burkan
Tolly Burkan is the happiest man on earth, by his own judgement. It's a place he reached after many challenges in his life. In his early life he once faked his own death and twice tried to kill him self. His story is one of recovery from mental health issues. Colly has decided it was how he…
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Mike King, the radio presenter of New Zealand's Nutter's Club radio programme, talking about mental health issues
Mike King presents his weekly radio programme on New Zealand radio and has done so for the last 6 or 7 years. It followed a suicide attempt that thankfully went wrong. He tells his story and we share some debate on the issues and challenges facing those with ongoing mental health issues.
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Living with Bi-Polar
Ney is a 27 year old woman, expecting her first child, living and working in the South Bay, near the city of San Jose, California. 10 years ago, as a 17 year old, she was diagnosed as having Bi-Polar depression with additional schizophrenic tendencies. She had known from early childhood that she...
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Bullying! It just has to stop and you can help!
A number of recent articles and studies are outlining the devastating effects bullying have on the future mental health and wellbeing of those effected when young, in later mental health issues. Following discussion on a weekly twitter debate on mental health stigma #mhstigma, I decided to find…
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Expressive Arts Therapy with Nadia Ashjaee
I've been chatting with Nadia Ashjaee, an intern with the Living Arts Counselling Center, Emeryville, California and a graduate in the field of Expressive Arts Therapy at the CIIS, San Francisco. After a brief session we talked about the therapy and it's potential to deal with and aid recovery…
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Let's Talk About It Wellbeing Podcast 2
On today's programme co-host Kirsten Cameron interviews Donagh McKeown as he talks about his journey through psychotic attack and recovery from depression. We also have a look at "The Feeling Good Handbook" by David D Burns http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0452261740/psychcentral/?ref=nosim...