E150 - Danny Gray: Why we struggle and how to find help
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2022
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay and so we are releasing a special episode where Jake, Damian and our guest, Danny Gray, get vulnerable about their mental health. It is so important to have open and honest conversations with those around us about mental health.
Danny Gray, is founder of the mental health social media platform JAAQ and the pioneering men's makeup brand War Paint For Men. JAAQ offers reliable information on mental health issues from experts and credible sources. War Paint and JAAQ were both founded due to Danny’s experiences with body dysmorphia, which began in his teenage years. In this episode they dive deep into Danny’s struggles with mental health, how they have shaped his career, relationships and the person he is today.
JAAQ (Just Ask A Question) is the new mental health social media platform launching on November 24th, designed to give you the right information from the right people in a way that has never been done before. For more information please go to: www.jaaq.org
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| 0:00.0 | Please be aware this episode contains content that some listeners may find disturbing. |
| 0:05.2 | Hi there, I'm Jake Cumpfrey and you're listening to a very special episode of the |
| 0:09.6 | High Performance Podcast. |
| 0:11.2 | This episode is being released globally on the 10th of October, which is World Mental |
| 0:16.4 | Health Day. And you know by now that this podcast exists to remind you that your ambition, |
| 0:22.2 | your purpose, your story is all within. |
| 0:24.8 | We're just here to help unlock it by turning the lived experiences of the planet's |
| 0:29.1 | highest performers into your life lessons. |
| 0:32.2 | But this podcast also exists to normalise the conversation around mental health. |
| 0:38.1 | Quite a few times my wife, Harry, I said, are you talking about my anxiety on high |
| 0:43.1 | performance again? And yes, I have. |
| 0:44.8 | And yes, I will continue to do so. |
| 0:47.0 | I've discussed the issues that my daughter Florence has experienced since the COVID pandemic. |
| 0:52.6 | And for full disclosure, when I left home and got a job on children's BBC in the UK, |
| 0:58.7 | in 2001, I had a serious mental health episode. |
| 1:03.2 | I lost a lot of weight. |
| 1:04.6 | I genuinely thought that it was game over for me. |
| 1:07.8 | I went into an incredibly dark place. |
| 1:10.1 | And the worst thing of all is that it lasted a long time because I didn't know what to do. |
| 1:15.7 | The conversation around mental health wasn't normalised and now it needs to be. |
| 1:20.7 | Because if you are listening to this episode and things are a struggle for you either now |
| 1:25.1 | or they have been in the past, then you are not alone. |
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