Our podcast is a place where we explore ideas around mental health, equality, and social justice. Join Thea Joshi as she talks to people with lived experience of mental health problems, people working in a specific area of mental health, or some of our own team, to discuss how we’re engaged in the fight for equality in mental health.
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28 June 2024
Venus Madden tells us about her experiences of miscarriage and postnatal depression, as well as the impact of moving to the UK from Hong Kong as a teenager.
24 May 2024
Leeds-based artist and art psychotherapist, Thahmina Begum talks about how she uses art to help communities process racial and intergenerational trauma.
26 April 2024
Andy Bell describes the distinction between mental health awareness and literacy, and why narratives that minimise people’s mental health struggles can be so harmful.
28 March 2024
The Centre’s Senior Economist, Frederico Cardoso, discusses a major new report that has broken new ground in assessing the social and economic costs of mental ill health.
26 February 2024
David Woodhead shares how his experiences as a gay man have affected his mental health, for good and ill, and about his journey from addiction to recovery.
24 January 2024
Claudia Turbet-Delof, a local councillor in Hackney and human rights campaigner shares her experience of growing up in poverty in Bolivia, moving to the UK and facing depression and racism.
29 November 2023
Writer in Residence, Andrew K Kauffmann and Thea Joshi sit down to discuss the realities of living with OCD, from the initial diagnosis to the present day.
3 October 2023
Award-winning mental health activist ZeZe Sohawon joins Thea Joshi to talk better support for people at the intersection of autism and mental health, her own lived experience of being on a low-secure inpatient unit and the vision behind her new charity Emotion Dysregulation in Autism.
31 August 2023
Andy Bell joins us to share the changes that have been forged in mental health in the last 20 years, and the distance we have yet to travel to eradicate persisting inequalities.
22 June 2023
How is children’s behaviour in schools linked to their mental health? Thea speaks to Charlotte and Daisy about the impact of behaviour management approaches on young people’s mental health.
25 April 2023
Thea is joined by António Ferreira, an award-winning mental health activist and anti-racism campaigner who uses his own lived experience of mental health difficulties to bring about changes in mental health.
27 February 2023
Emma Bailey and Hannah Moore from Equally Well UK join Thea to explain how the work they do is tackling the unacceptable life expectancy gap for people with severe mental illness
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