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Where There’s A Will A Lust For Life
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A Lust for Life Presents Where There’s A Will, a podcast about the mental health system in Ireland. In this six part series, we ask why our mental health system is so dysfunctional, who is responsible for making change happen, and how we can collectively respond, join the dots, and make things better for all of us.
If you or someone you know needs immediate help or is in crisis, phone the free Pieta House 24-hour suicide helpline on 1800 247 247. Or, text HELP to 51444. If you just need to talk, you can also contact The Samaritans, Aware, or your local GP.
This podcast is kindly supported by Revive Active.
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Trailer: Where There’s A Will
A Lust for Life presents: Where There’s A Will, a podcast series about Ireland’s mental health system. Starts Monday, 12 November 2018.
This podcast is kindly supported by Revive Active, a range of life enhancing supplements that have been scientifically developed by a dedicated and passionate team of experts.
Credits:
Artwork: Natalie Keville
Music: Alvo Noto – For 2 – T3 (for Deiter Rams)
Alvo Noto – Xerrox Vol 1 – Astoria
Producer: Ciara O’Connor Walsh -
Episode 0: Introducing Where There’s A Will
In this introductory episode, Paula and Ciara, co-hosts of Where There’s A Will introduce the podcast, talk about the premise behind Where There’s A Will, and what they want to achieve by dissecting our mental health system. They lay out our approach to looking at the mental health system in Ireland, and what they want to achieve.
Credits:
Artwork: Natalie Keville
Music: Larry Goldings: Radio Music Vol. 1, Migrant Song
Producer: Ciara O’Connor Walsh
This podcast is kindly supported by Revive Active, a range of life enhancing supplements that have been scientifically developed by a dedicated and passionate team of experts.
And this podcast was recorded in Camden Recording Studios, with thanks to Jack Power. -
Episode 1: The Hardest Thing To Do
We so often hear the message that if you are suffering or having a hard time with your mental health, to just ask for help. The story we don’t often hear is what happens when you do.
In the first full-length episode of Where There’s A Will, co-hosts Paula and Ciara talk to Broadcast Journalist Dr Ciara Kelly about her experience as a GP in providing that first port of call for people who are worried about their mental health, and to Dr Eddie Murphy, clinical psychologist, who talks about how hard it is for people to open up, and ask for help. Also, Victoria and James tell their first-hand account of their mental health journeys.
Credits:
Artwork: Natalie Keville
Music: Larry Goldings: Radio Music Vol. 1, Migrant Song
Moby: Long Ambients
Alison Leyton-Brown: Music from This American Life, My Shadow
Larry Goldings: Radio Music Vol. 1, Undercurrent
Larry Goldings: Radio Music Vol. 1, Don’t Vibe Me
Producer: Ciara O’Connor Walsh
This podcast is kindly supported by Revive Active, a range of life enhancing supplements that have been scientifically developed by a dedicated and passionate team of experts.
This podcast was recorded in Camden Recording Studios, with thanks to Jack Power. -
Episode 2: System Of A Down
In this episode, we pull back the curtain and see the inner workings of our mental health system, its origins and legacies. We’ll learn what happened when Ireland moved to close our old asylum system and create something new. And we’ll look at what we are left with now: the problems, the waiting lists and the logjams, and ask, is this fixable? And if so, how?
In this episode, we speak to Martin Rogan, CEO of Mental Health Ireland, John Saunders, CEO of Shine and Chair of the Mental Health Commission, Dr Eddie Murphy, Clinical Psychologist, Dr John Hillery, President of the Irish College of Psychiatrists, and finally, Lisa shares her experiences being bounced in and out of the system over a number of years.
Credits:
Artwork: Natalie Keville
Music: Larry Goldings: Radio Music Vol. 1, Migrant Song
Moby: Long Ambients
Alison Leyton-Brown: Music from This American Life, Solitary
Flim, Given You Nothing
Alison Leyton-Brown: Music from This American Life, My Shadow
Larry Goldings: Radio Music Vol. 1, Undercurrent
Larry Goldings: Radio Music Vol. 1, Don’t Vibe Me
Producer: Ciara O’Connor Walsh
This podcast is kindly supported by Revive Active, a range of life enhancing supplements that have been scientifically developed by a dedicated and passionate team of experts.
And this podcast was recorded in Camden Recording Studios, with thanks to Jack Power. -
Episode 3: Waiting On The World To Change
In this episode, we look at Irish mental health policy. We dive into its details and untangle its logic. We’ll examine our mental health system’s architectural drawings – the political drivers behind it, where it has fallen down, and what is needed now, in 2018, to create a new roadmap for Ireland’s mental health.
In this episode, we speak to Martin Rogan, CEO of Mental Health Ireland, John Saunders, CEO of Shine and Chair of the Mental Health Commission, Shari McDaid, CEO of Mental Health Reform, Dr John Hillery, President of the Irish College of Psychiatrists, Senator Joan Freeman, and Gary talks about becoming a mental health advocate after seeing the system from the inside.
Credits:
Artwork: Natalie Keville
Music: Larry Goldings: Radio Music Vol. 1, Circus Haze
Alison Leyton-Brown: Music from This American Life, Solitary
Moby: Long Ambients
Melodium: My Mind is Falling to Pieces, A Sort of Happy Melancholy
Melodium: The Island, Lacrymae
Producer: Ciara O’Connor Walsh
This podcast is kindly supported by Revive Active, a range of life enhancing supplements that have been scientifically developed by a dedicated and passionate team of experts.
https://reviveactive.com/
And this podcast was recorded in Camden Recording Studios, with thanks to Jack Power. -
Episode 4: Stigma
This episode turns the lens on ourselves: because while the mental health system needs to be fixed, we have to look at our role in that as a society.
We need to ask ourselves: do we have an epidemic of mental health problems in Ireland? How do we contribute to poor mental health through stigma, and through creating policies and planning for a society that doesn’t put people at the centre? And we need to ask, how do we collectively build communities and systems that catch people when they fall?
In this episode, we speak to Brian Higgins, CEO of Pieta House, Shari McDaid, CEO of Mental Health Reform, Dominic Laydon, CEO of Aware; and Leon tells his personal story of facing stigma within and outside of the system.
Credits:
Artwork: Natalie Keville
Music: Larry Goldings: Radio Music Vol. 1, Migrant song
Moby: Long Ambients
Moby: Hotel Ambient, The Come Down
Moby: Hotel Ambient, Spaired Long
Alison Leyton-Brown: Music from This American Life, my shadow
Producer: Ciara O’Connor Walsh
This podcast is kindly supported by Revive Active, a range of life enhancing supplements that have been scientifically developed by a dedicated and passionate team of experts.
https://reviveactive.com/
And this podcast was recorded in Camden Recording Studios, with thanks to Jack Power.