Ep. 268: Running 1250 miles from Rome to Home with Bipolar Disorder - Dan Keeley
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Dan Keeley is on a mission to raise awareness for depression and bipolar disorder by running 1250 miles self-supported from Rome to London. It's called Rome to Home. In the summer of 2012 he experienced a full-blown manic episode – an episode which culminated with him believing he was ‘the chosen one’ and preaching from the central lane of a major motorway in Italy at rush hour. What followed was a diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder, time spent in psychiatric wards both in Italy and the UK, and the inevitable crippling depression which found him wanting to take my his own life. It has been 5 years now and Dan is doing awesome! He has a new lease on life and is using it to its fullest. Listen in to learn about Dan, his wild trip through this ordeal and what he is doing now to bring attention to this issue. There could not be a nicer guy to help us understand what people with depression are going through.
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| 0:00.0 | And so it was actually January 2016 just now where I committed to this idea. |
| 0:04.9 | And obviously the link with Italy is Rome. |
| 0:08.1 | So I just started thinking, okay, I want to do something tying in Rome or Italy as a country |
| 0:13.6 | just because that is where I have my manic episode. |
| 0:16.3 | So then I thought Rome, Rome to home. |
| 0:18.2 | Oh, Rome to home. |
| 0:19.6 | And then that just stuck with me. |
| 0:21.7 | Episode 268, running to Home, Oh, Rome to Home. And then that just stuck with me. Episode 268, running 1,250 miles from Rome to Home with bipolar disorder with Dan Keely. |
| 0:29.2 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast, brought to you by 180 Tech. |
| 0:33.6 | We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. |
| 0:41.9 | Now here's your host, Kurt Lindville. |
| 0:57.2 | Hello and welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:58.7 | This is your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 1:02.1 | Hey, I've got a really neat story for you today. |
| 1:09.8 | Dan Keely has joined us from the UK, and he has quite the story to tell, but he has set a mission for himself to make an impact, to make a |
| 1:12.8 | real difference in the world, especially for men who are struggling with all sorts of depression. |
| 1:18.6 | And we'll get into why that is. But starting on August the 25th of this year, Dan is going to run |
| 1:25.2 | from Rome all the way back to the UK, and he's calling it the Rome to home. |
| 1:31.7 | It is 1,250 miles of self-supported running, but he's not doing it just for the fun of it. |
| 1:38.9 | He's doing it to raise awareness about depression, especially among men, and to raise awareness about other things that |
| 1:46.4 | face us, that can cause struggles throughout our lives. So, Dan, welcome to the program. We want to |
| 1:52.3 | hear a lot more about this. Yeah, Curtis. Oh, my gosh. What an introduction. Thank you so much. |
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