#30 Private Moment - Matt Edmondson on his cyclothymia diagnosis
Private Parts
Peter Cowley
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Happy Monday everyone and welcome back to Private Parts, the podcast where nothing is off limits!
We are back with another Private Moment. These are where we go back into our archives to find little snippets from previous episodes for you all to enjoy.
Today, we journey back to when we had radio and TV presenter, Matt Edmondson on the podcast. He speaks to Jamie & Alex about how he started off in radio, how he wasn't very good to start with and why he had to stop worrying about what people think of him. He also speaks to the boys about his cyclothymia diagnosis and how it manifests itself.
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| 2:55.5 | This is a little private moment for you. I hope you enjoy it. How long have you been ready for now? |
| 3:00.5 | A while. A while over 10 years. Really? Yeah. I've got quite a bad autobiographical memory. So any questions about the past I'm going to struggle with. |
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| 3:13.5 | But that's because what I find interesting about that is that you wake up every single day. You go and do radio. You have to make radio. |
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