On our latest episode, Stuart and Bethan discuss mental health at Christmas. In what ways Christmas can be good for your mental health, and what things can impact your mental health around this time of year.
We talk to Mark Rowland, CEO of the Mental Health Foundation, and Antonis Kousoulis, who leads our programmes work. Mark and Antonis discuss 2019 as being a year of change and how we can look after our mental health when change hits us - be it positive or negative change. We also discuss the Mental Health Foundation's birthday year and why a public health and prevention approach is the way forward for mental health.
Elitsa Dermendzhiyska talks about how she burned out due to a damaging culture in the start-up world she was working in, along with the power of sharing stories.
Byron Vincent, a performance artist with lived experience of bipolar disorder, and his friend Tim Clare, author, poet and podcaster with lived experience of anxiety and depression, talk openly about their experience of mental health.
The Mental Health Foundation, the charity that focuses on the prevention of mental health problems, issued guidance today for staying mentally healthy during the Coronavirus outbreak.