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Welcome to episode 174 with Paul Danan, who is an actor and the founder and creator of Morning After Drama (MAD), a theatre company that provides specifically tailored workshops to support people who have experienced trauma, been involved with the criminal justice system, suffered from addiction or experience poor mental health. Paul shot to fame w…
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Welcome to episode 173 with Gulwali Passarlay, who is a speaker and campaigner for refugee rights. Gulwali was sent away from Afghanistan at the age of twelve, after his father was killed in a gun battle with the US Army. He was smuggled into Iran and spent the next 12 months traveling through Europe. He crossed 10 countries, was put in prison 6 ti…
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Welcome to episode 172 with Bill Ryder-Jones, who is a singer-songwriter, musician, music producer and composer. Bill was a co-founder of The Coral, which they started when he was 13, and he played lead guitar on the first five albums, eventually leaving in 2008. It was around then that Bill started to experience depression, agoraphobia and panic a…
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Welcome to episode 171 with Mark Williams, who is an author, speaker and international campaigner for father’s mental health. Mark suffered with PTSD and depression after the birth of his son and he suffered in silence for many years while trying to support his wife who was also struggling with her mental health and they were both in at crisis poin…
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Welcome to episode 170 with Lily Bailey who is an author, journalist and activist who has been writing and speaking about OCD and mental illness for a long time and in this episode, I chat to Lily about her experiences with obsessive compulsive disorder and how it’s affected her over the years. We also chat her new book, When I Feel Red, written fo…
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Welcome to episode 169 with John Rattray, who is a former professional skateboarder and the creator of Why So Sad? Why So Sad? Is a skate and cycling focused campaign with the goal of driving awareness and education around mental wellbeing and suicide prevention. In this episode I chat to John about getting in to skating and the importance of commu…
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Welcome to episode 168 with Jess Greenfield, who is a multi-instrumentalist and a singer with Wonder 45 and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying birds. In this episode I chat to Jess about singing, the music industry and balancing being a mother and a touring musician. We also chat about Jess’ experiences with post-natal mental health issues, the impact th…
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Welcome to episode 167 with Nadia Gilani, who is a writer and yoga teacher. Nadia was introduced to yoga as a teenager when her Mum took her along to a class as a way of helping her mental health. Since then, yoga has been a constant and important part of her life but her relationship with the practice has not always been a smooth one. In this epis…
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Welcome to episode 166 with Tate Smith, who is an award-winning trans activist, consultant and speaker. Tate started to experience anxiety at high school but this had nothing to do with his gender. It was only later on in his teenage years that he became aware of what it means to be trans and was able to start making sense of himself. In this episo…
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Welcome to episode 165 with Roxy Longworth. When Roxy was 13, she was coerced then blackmailed into sending explicit photos, which were spread around her school. The school blamed all of this on Roxy and the shame and embarrassment that was heaped down on her, by the very establishment that was supposed to be looking after her, took a huge toll on …
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Welcome to episode 164 with Ian Tucknott who is a creative coach, arts educator and the curator of the Mental Wealth Festival which is hosted by City Lit. The festival is an annual event that provides a forum for informative, challenging and inspiring discussion through workshops, talks, exhibitions, and other activities. In this episode I chat to …
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Welcome to episode 163 with Steve Warwick, who is a men’s mental health advocate, eating disorder survivor and the man behind the Instagram page Healthy Done Sexy. In this episode I chat to Steve about his relationship with food from a creative perspective and a mental illness perspective. We chat about Steve’s history with Bulimia, how it showed u…
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Welcome to episode 162 with Aidy Smith who is an award-winning broadcaster, journalist, content creator and speaker and the only TV presenter in the UK with Tourette Syndrome. Aidy created The Three Drinkers on Amazon Prime; the show has released 3 seasons since 2019 in over 100 territories and 10+ languages around the world. In this episode I chat…
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Welcome to episode 161 with Adam Bloom who is a multi-award-winning stand-up comedian and writer. Adam has made national TV appearances in Britain and The U.S. and has also ghost-written for 50 comedians. Adam has a diagnosis of Bipolar and in this episode, we chat about his experiences with hypomania which is the less extreme part of bipolar and v…
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Welcome to a very special Christmas episode of the Proper Mental podcast! Tis the season that not everybody enjoys, for a lot of different reasons. I wanted to put something out at Christmas that might give someone a little lift if they needed one, even if it’s just for 5 minutes. Sometimes 5 minutes can make all the difference. I reached out to ad…
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Welcome to episode 160 with The Real Talk Therapist, Tasha Bailey! Tasha is an author, content creator and psychotherapist who specialises in trauma, self-love and creativity. In this episode I chat to Tasha about why she decided to become a therapist and some of the different ways that she supports the people she works with. We chat about the lang…
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Welcome to episode 159 with Kunt, who is a sometime comedy songwriter turned major irritant who records and performs as Kunt & The Gang! At Christmas 2020, his other band The K*nts, had an unexpected top 5 hit single with their protest song Boris Johnson is a F**king C**t. Since then, they have had top 20 hits with Boris Johnson is STILL a F**king …
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Welcome to episode 158 with Ro Bevan from Christmas For CAMHS, a registered charity who provides special Christmas gifts every year for children and young people who are inpatients in child and adolescent mental health (CAMHS) wards across the UK over the Christmas holiday period. Dr Ro Bevan got things started after working on CAMHS wards at Chris…
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Welcome to episode 157 with Reed Amber, who is a proud sex worker, educator, anti-shamer and activist. She is also co-founder of ComeCurious, a leading channel about sex and relationships and co-host of the award-winning F**ks Given podcast. Reed describes herself as an anxious child and she became aware of her mental health from a young age. In th…
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Welcome to this bonus episode which was recorded live at this year’s Mental Wealth Festival in October 2023. The Mental Wealth Festival is an annual event, hosted by City Lit, and offers free or low-fee events, including in person and online workshops, talks, discussions, exhibitions, and other activities. I was honoured to be asked to join a panel…
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Welcome to episode 156, where I’m joined by Chris & Stu from Hardcore Listings for a men’s mental health awareness month special! I reached out to the lads to borrow the Hardcore Listings format and do a Top 5 and they chose to do songs that are good for your mental health. I also really love how comfortable both Chris & Stu are talking about thing…
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Welcome to episode 155 with Sammy Trotman, who is the writer and creator of ‘That’s Not My Name’ a show about mental illness, labels and trauma. Sammy started writing the show while she was in a psychiatric hospital and the reasons why she ended up in hospital are what the show is based around. In this episode I chat to Sammy about writing the show…
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Welcome to episode 154 with Mark Richardson, who is the drummer in Skunk Anansie and has previously played drums in Little Angels and Feeder. As a child Mark found that playing drums was the only that kept him from bouncing off the walls and he eventually moved to London to join Little Angels before joining Skunk Anansie after he met the band at th…
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Welcome to episode 153 with Vanessa Cornell, who is a surfer, writer, teacher a messy mum of 5 and the founder of Nushu, an organisation that holds a safe space and creates a supportive environment for those seeking to live authentic, inspired, and joyful lives through the power of true community. At one point in time, Vanessa had everything that s…
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Welcome to episode 152 with Kieran Cunningham, who is an author, climber and mountaineer. After being diagnosed with Bipolar 1 while at university, Kieran spent a decade travelling around the world trying to figure out what he wanted to do and how he was going to live with this diagnosis. Along the way he found that climbing was the perfect way for…
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Welcome to episode 151 with Kim Davies! My wife Kim and I originally recorded and released this episode in April 2021. At that time, we were both quite nervous about putting our story out there so I just slipped it out as a bonus with very little promotion. It had such a wonderful response and is still one of the episodes that I get the most feedba…
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Welcome to episode 150! I’m not sure if 150 episodes is an actual milestone or not, but it sort of feels like one so I wanted to mark it in some way. I’ve been lucky enough to be asked to tell my own mental health story in a lot of different places but it’s been a long time since I’ve talked about myself on Proper Mental. Very early on, episode 7 i…
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Welcome to episode 149 with James McMahon, a journalist and podcaster who spent a long time working at the NME, editing Kerrang! and interviewing pretty much everyone in the music industry. James has lived with OCD for most of his life, although for a lot of that time he had no idea what it was or how to get help. In this episode James and I chat a…
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Welcome to episode 148 with Dr Ben Cave, which is the pen name of a practising general and forensic psychiatrist. For over 30 years Ben has worked as a prison psychiatrist, community psychiatrist and as a consultant in medium-secure, low-secure and general mental health units. He is also the author of ‘What We Fear Most’ in which he reflects on a l…
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Welcome to episode 147 with David Parkin is an author, theatre maker and installation artist whose work is fiercely autobiographical or silly and speculative. In 2015 he suffered his first manic episode and was sectioned under the mental health act for 4 months. He is currently putting on a fully immersive art installation called ‘Delusions of Gran…
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Welcome to episode 146 with Kim Nixon, who is an actor and writer who has appeared in shows such as Fresh Meat, Cranford and The Tuckers and in 2017 she won the BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Actress for her role in 'Ordinary Lies'. In this episode I chat to Kim about her experiences with OCD, which started after she become a mum in 2020. We chat about…
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Welcome to episode 145 with Jeremy Thomas, who is an author, public speaker and podcast host. Jeremy has had a really exciting life and a lot of this is down to him living a big chunk of it with undiagnosed manic depression, a condition that is now known as bipolar. He started off as a plugger for Decca Records in the 70’s working with the likes of…
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Welcome to episode 144 with Eva Echo, who is a trans rights activist, writer and public speaker. It took Eva a long time to figure out who she was and learn to live as her true self and this had a hugely negative impact on her mental health from a young age. In this episode Eva and I chat about what it’s like to be transgender and she guides me thr…
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Welcome to episode 143 with Danny McNamara, who is a songwriter and the singer in Embrace. Embrace released their debut album ‘The Good Will Out’ in 1996 and have gone on to release a total of 8 albums, all of which have charted in the top 10. Danny experienced mental health challenges as a teenager, at one point having 15 panic attacks a day. He w…
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Welcome to episode 142 with Cara Lisette, who is a mental health writer and campaigner, a registered mental health nurse and CBT therapist. In this episode I chat to Cara about her work in mental health services and some of the reasons why she got in to nursing and trained to be a therapist. Cara has many years of experience of living with an eatin…
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Welcome to episode 141 with Xani Byrne, who is currently riding a tandem around the coastline of the UK, covering 3500 miles to raise awareness of suicide and mental health and to raise money for to incredible support charities. The idea for his expedition came after losing his sister to suicide in 2022. They had always planned to ride a tandem tog…
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Welcome to episode 140 with Lucy Nichol, who is a writer and mental health campaigner. Her recent book, Snowflake, takes a deep-dive into some of the most harmful mental health stereotypes and in this episode Lucy and I chat about where these stereotypes come from and the impact that they have. We chat about Lucy’s own experiences with anxiety and …
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Welcome to episode 139 with Matty Caine, who is the CEO and founder of First Person Project C.I.C First Person Project is a not-for-profit social enterprise who are on a social mission to promote empowerment in communities across Liverpool City Region, improving mental health through socially progressive action. Matty has 17 years’ professional exp…
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Welcome to episode 138 with PC Leon McLeod! On 3rd June 2017 three terrorists drove a white van into pedestrians on London Bridge, then leapt out and started attacking bystanders. As the attack took place, Leon was just starting a night shift and happened to be walking through the area as the attack took place. He was one of the first officers on t…
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Welcome to episode 137 With Harriet Dyer, who is a stand up comedian, writer and mental health advocate. Growing up, Harriet just thought that she was just eccentric but as she got older, and people kept trying to have her sectioned, she came to realise that there might be more going on. She would eventually be diagnosed with bipolar and has incorp…
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Welcome to episode 136 with Dan Osman, who is a health and wellbeing coach and educator. In this episode I chat to Dan about his background, how he got in to the world of fitness and how he became a coach. We chat about his own experiences with mental ill health and the impact that has had on his coaching process, the way he works with his clients …
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Welcome to episode 135 with Eddy Temple-Morris, who is a musician, DJ & Broadcaster. He is also a patron for My Black Dog, a mental health charity and ground breaking peer-to-peer service that’s hosted by volunteers that all have lived experience so anyone who’s struggling can web-chat with someone who really gets it. In this episode I chat to Eddy…
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Welcome to episode 134 with Suzy Reading, who is a Chartered Psychologist specialising in wellbeing, stress management and facilitation of healthy lifestyle change. She is also a yoga teacher, author and coach who is recognised as one of the world’s leading self-care experts. In this episode I chat to Suzy about her life experience of motherhood co…
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Welcome to episode 133 with Adam Nutter who is a guitarist, musician and songwriter. Adam formed The Music with some friends (Robert Harvey, Stuart Coleman, Phil Jordan) while still at high school and the band were quickly called the best unsigned band in Britain by the NME. When the group turned 18, they released their debut album which went in to…
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Welcome to episode 132 with Michelle Thomas who is a writer and the author of My Sh*t Therapist and Other Mental Health Stories. One day Michelle started crying at work and couldn’t stop. She would end up spending the next two weeks in bed and would eventually have to leave her job. As part of her recovery journey, she started medication and starte…
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Welcome episode 131 with Tim Clare who is a writer, a poet and a coward. Tim Clare is a writer, a poet and a coward. Tim has experienced anxiety and panic attacks for over a decade, sometimes having attacks several times a day. These would often leave him curled up in a ball on the floor, screaming for help. Eventually Tim got to a place where he c…
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Welcome to episode 130 with Thom and Katie from The Lottery Winners! The Lottery Winners are a four-piece indie-rock band hailing from the Leigh area of Greater Manchester. Their latest album, Anxiety Replacement Therapy, contains collaborations with the likes of Boy George, Shaun Ryder and Frank Turner and recently charted at number one in the U.K…
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Welcome to episode 129 with Richard Mabey, a writer and broadcaster who has been writing about the natural world for more than 50 years and is considered by many to be the father of modern nature writing. His first book Food for Free was published in 1972 and has never been out of print. He has written over 30 books since. At the age of 61 Richard …
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Welcome to episode 128 with Rachel Walker Mason, a multi-award-winning songwriter and mental health campaigner who has written songs with Grammy nominee’s and Billboard 100 artists. She also runs song writing workshops for anyone who has experienced or been affected by post-natal depression and has been described by Prince Harry as ‘an inspiration’…
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Welcome to episode 127 with Sam Delaney, a journalist and broadcaster whose work has featured in Guardian, Big Issue, Talk Sport and many others. He is also a podcaster and an author and I reached out to Sam after reading his recent book, Sort Your Head Out: Mental Health without the Bollocks. It’s a great read and I can’t recommend it highly enoug…
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