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#77 Emily Reynolds: The Internet & Mental Health

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Recorded live at Waterstones, London on May 11th, 2017. Emily Reynolds is a writer and author, based in London, specialising in features and opinion on mental health, tech, science and gender. She has bylines at NY Mag, the Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, BBC and many more. She has appeared on Newstalk, the FiveThirtyEight podcast, Radio 4's Today Programme and Woman's Hour. Her first book, A Beginner's Guide To Losing Your Mind, was released in February 2017. In 2016 she co-founded the Words by Women Awards, the only general UK awards for women journalists. It received thousands of nominations and had press coverage on Radio 4 and in the Telegraph, Guardian, Spectator and more. The Society of Editors formed an advisory group to deal with diversity following the success of the awards.

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So if you're interested, go to careers. Kingfisher.com today to find out more about their tech and digital roles. Thank you so much to King Fisher

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for sponsoring this podcast.

0:57.4

Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-Or Delete. This one was recorded live at

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Waterstones on Gower Street, which is one of my favorite bookshops.

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I interviewed my friend and author Emily Reynolds, the author of the book A Beginner's Guide to Losing Your Mind, which is out now and it's quite recently

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been published in the UK and America. And I've been wanting to get her on the podcast for ages, but I thought

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as it's Mental Health Awareness Week it really made sense to do an event, promote

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her book and talk about mental health.

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So yeah we had a really lovely intimate audience in Waterstones and we spoke about mental health in the context of

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dating, self-care, therapy, how to help a friend or loved one and in general I just

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learned so much from Emily and I just got to ask so many questions

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really honestly and really openly and I really hope you enjoy this episode and get

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something out of it. If you want to come to a future live event, I'm doing quite a few, hopefully over the next

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