Good morning. How are you doing? You're all right? It's not great this, is it? It's a sort of sense of the, I don't know, quite the world turning and us coming back around to where we have been before, but thought perhaps we had now left behind us. And it's easy to get cross. It's easy to get, even scared perhaps. It's certainly very easy to get fatigued, isn't it, to reach a sort of point where you go

oh no

do you know

what

sack it

I just certainly very easy to get fatigued, isn't it, to reach a sort of point where you go,

oh, no, do you know what? Sack it, I'll just take my chances or whatever that phrase would be

in your case. And we can't afford to, unfortunately, I don't think. We have to abide by the best

available information and the best sources, the best trusted

sources of the people perhaps with the best track records for getting things right

thus far since March of 2020, would you believe?

And we have to press on.

When I went into therapy a few years ago, as you probably know, because I've mentioned

it to you a few times. I took loads of lessons out of thought. I wish we could put therapy on the national health for absolutely everybody. And do you know who I'd send in first? People like me, who think it's all a load of rubbish and that they could never possibly benefit from it. It's a bit like Groucho Marx's comments about clubs. Groucho Marx famously said he'd never want to be a member of a club that had him as a member and that would have him as a member. And I similarly think that people

like me who used to think that mental health was all about, or a lot of mental health was all

about pulling your socks up and being resilient and it's only pain, it doesn't really hurt.

The sort of PE teacher, the 1980s

PE teacher, or the KES, remember Brian Glover in Kess, the 1970s PE teacher approach to mental

health, and you'd think therapy was just for the birds. People like that should be forced,

should be frog marched into the therapist's office. And the biggest lesson I learned

probably, where does your power lie? Where does your power lie? Because when the world seems to be

chaotic, when things seem to be spiraling out of control, when you feel yourself getting frustrated or frightened or even, certainly in my case, it used to be enraged by events, either the behaviour of other people or events that were beyond your control or the failure of the world to deliver the rewards and the recognition that you felt should be rightfully yours. Where does your

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