PTSD in Army Veterans, Op Courage, Parkinson’s UK; and Louise Minchin on Funeral conversations.

On this month’s show: Vic and Dee from the ‘A Space to Speak Your Mind’ radio wellbeing group present this month’s show where Louise Minchin will be explaining why it’s so difficult to have a conversation around funeral planning. We tackle the issue of Customer Vulnerability with Riffat Tufail, from The Phoenix Group. Nic Wray from Tinnitus UK explains how the condition can affect our mental health. https://tinnitus.org.uk/ Sue Christoforou, from Parkinson’s UK tells us how more support is needed for those that are affected by insufficient cost of living payments. Plus we will be finding out about PTSD with Robert Marsh from veterans’ mental health charity Combat Stress www.combatstress.org.uk and learning about Op Courage with Army Veteran Nigel, and Doctor Jonathan Leach OBE, NHS England Associate Medical Director for the Armed Forces. https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/armed-forces-community/mental-health/veterans-reservists/ https://www.combat2coffee.co.uk/ “A Space to Speak Your Mind” is produced in collaboration with Cornwall Mind: https://cornwallmind.org/what-we-do/influence-and-participation/ With the support of Cornwall Rural Community Charity: www.cornwallrcc.org.uk/ More support at: www.samaritans.org/ or call 116 123 There is also a 24/7 NHS local urgent mental health response phone line. Its free to access by anyone, any age on 0800 038 5300