Dr Alex George
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Recently appointed by the Prime Minister as Youth Mental Health Ambassador to the government, Dr Alex George is on a mission to make mental health education compulsory in schools. In this chat with Fearne, the A&E doctor explains why his goal is to ensure mental health sits alongside the likes of maths and English on the curriculum, and what we can all be doing to look after both our mental and physical health every day.
Alex’s book, Live Well Every Day, is available to buy from May 13th.
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Content warning: this episode includes conversations about suicide, so please do take care while listening.
In the UK, the Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123. In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Hotline is 1-800-273-8255. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is on 13 11 14. Hotlines in other countries can be found here.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we start, this episode contains some chat that might be triggering for some listeners. |
| 0:04.9 | If that sounds like that could be you, do check the show notes for more details. |
| 0:10.7 | Hello and welcome to the final episode in this series of Happy Place. |
| 0:15.3 | We're rounding off the series with an absolute corka by meeting Dr Alex George. |
| 0:21.3 | I think health incorporates a combination of mental and physical. I don't think you can |
| 0:25.9 | separate the two. I use the analogy of person who enjoys playing football. If you have an injury, |
| 0:30.5 | you hurt your ankle, you can't play football, you've got a physical problem, but it impacts because |
| 0:34.4 | you're not able to do the things you enjoy in life. It impacts your mental health and I see plenty |
| 0:39.2 | of patients out there who have physical health conditions and it causes a mental health problem |
| 0:43.2 | because they're not able to live their life or experience life in the way that they believe they |
| 0:47.6 | should. I've long believed in the very real connection between mental and physical health |
| 0:52.8 | and how one can directly inform the other, but it was really interesting to hear more about how |
| 0:58.3 | and why that might be the case from A&E doctor and now youth mental health ambassador to the |
| 1:03.3 | government, Alex George. He's written his first book Live Well Every Day, which is out on the 13th |
| 1:09.0 | of May and this chat is packed full of practical tips to help you do just that. This episode is |
| 1:15.0 | sponsored by more than insurance. They partnered with Dogs for Good, a charity that brings people |
| 1:21.7 | and dogs together to make life possible. In just two years more than have sponsored a number of |
| 1:27.4 | dogs for good puppies and together they provided support to hundreds of families and individuals |
| 1:33.6 | affected by disability, dementia, autism and other conditions. Isn't that just so amazing? |
| 1:40.3 | I know firsthand that it is so so important to have a support system around you and that's exactly |
| 1:45.6 | what dogs for good are providing. That's honestly all I can hope for happy place to do too. |
| 1:51.3 | I think there's so much power in listening to other people's stories. You might realize you're |
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