Bullet Points | It's ok to not be ok.
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
It’s ok not to be ok.
In a brand new episode of the podcast I discuss my mental health diagnosis of severe depression and anxiety back in 2016 and why it was so helpful.
I’d always feared this kind of diagnosis would signpost me as a failure, but it actually signposted my way out of a lifetime of negative thinking, self-sabotaging behaviour and unhappiness.
When I look back and ask myself if there’s anything I wish I’d done differently, it’s that I’d have asked for help earlier. Instead I spent years powering through, pushing it away and minimising how bad things were until eventually it all caught up with me and I had no choice but to address it.
This podcast was prompted by the response to the video I posted on #IGTV about my mental health and as not everyone who follows me on social listens to the show - and vice versa - I wanted to share that audio again as the second half of the episode. It also contains the five books that I have found most helpful in understanding my own mental health issues but also understanding other people and what they may be going through too.
The books featured are:
Lost Connections by @johann.hari
The Four Tendencies by @gretchenrubin
You Are a Badass by @jensincero
First, We Make the Beast Beautiful by @_sarahwilson_
How to Survive the End of the World by @technicallyron
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| 1:16.0 | Hello, hi and welcome to another bullet points episode of the Emma Gunn show. It's so good to spend this time with you. |
| 1:28.0 | I'm going to do something I've done once before on this podcast which is share the audio from an IG TV video that I shared on my |
| 1:35.7 | Instagram page where I'm at Emma Guns. But because this is a bullet points episode and I always like to give you a little something |
| 1:42.1 | extra I wanted to share before I episode and I always like to give you a little something extra. |
| 1:43.0 | I wanted to share, before I share that audio, |
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