315 episodes
Mentally Yours Metro
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- Health & Fitness
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4.9 • 16 Ratings
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A weekly mental health podcast from http://Metro.co.uk.
Ellen Scott and Yvette Caster chat to people who have lived with mental illness, from shop workers to celebrities, to educate, empathise and challenge stigma. Ellen has OCD, depression and anxiety, Yvette has bipolar disorder and binge eating disorder. Both know what a lonely place mental illness can be. These podcasts offer hope and proof that things can improve.
Published every Monday.
Follow us on social media http://twitter.com/mentallyyrs or join the private Mentally Yours Facebook Group.
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Collective Grief And The Queen's Death
"What you are feeling one day can be different the next"
Carole Henderson is a Grief Specialist, working to support people experiencing loss. She chats to Ellen and Yvette about the Queen's death.
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Extra episode: Talking To Children About Death And Bereavement
What to do and how to do it?
Yvette chats with Julia Samuel MBE, Psychotherapist and Paediatric Counsellor, about dealing with death and bereavement.
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Infertility
Living a life unexpected.
Ellen and Yvette chat with Jody Day, Psychotherapist, Author of Living The Life Unexpected, and Founder of Gateway Women, a network for childless women. They talk about infertility, mental health issues, and World Childless Week, which aims to raise awareness of the childless not by choice community.
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World Suicide Prevention Day
Each year people all over the world mark World Suicide Prevention Day, raising awareness about suicide and its impact. Ellen and Yvette chat to Joe Bookbinder and Ben Phillips from Samaritans about suicidal thoughts, myths about suicide and how we can work together to prevent suicide.
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Schizophrenia And Me
Graham Morgan is Author of the book, Start, which tells his personal story of managing his schizophrenia. He chats to Yvette about his detention under the Mental Health act and coping with the symptoms that he still struggles to accept are an illness.
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And check out Graham's latest work online... https://www.fledglingpress.co.uk/product-page/start -
Measuring Depression
Dr Emilia Molimpakis is a Neuroscientist with a rare specialism marrying linguistics and psychology. She has been studying how people monitor and measure depression and looking at the current depression questions for GPs. She chats to Yvette about her work and life.
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Customer Reviews
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I’m from Canada and I listen to this podcast every Monday. I also binge listen the old episodes that I haven’t heard. Ellen and Yvette have the most soothing voices and accents. Love this podcast. Xx