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Seriously...

Is Psychiatry Working? - Anxiety Special

Seriously...

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.1885 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In a special episode to mark Mental Health Awareness Week, writer Horatio Clare and psychiatrist Femi Oyebode consider the purpose of anxiety, and how it can manifest in different ways. They look at where it comes from, and hear from firefighter Jonny about his journey with panic attacks and his techniques for coping with them.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box.

0:05.0

The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.

0:09.0

And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.

0:12.0

The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.

0:12.5

The IRA inmates who found a way.

0:14.5

I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path

0:19.5

through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.

0:25.0

The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.

0:28.5

Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:35.0

BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.

0:39.0

Hello and welcome to Seriously from BBC Radio 4.

0:44.0

I'm Horatio Claire, the host of the Radio 4 series, Is Psychiatry Working.

0:49.0

You're about to hear a special episode that we recorded for Mental Health Awareness Week. In it we look at anxiety,

0:56.1

examining how it manifests itself and ways to manage the symptoms. To hear the rest of the

1:01.1

series, just search for for is psychiatry working on BBC sounds

1:09.0

If we could see over the whole strange landscape of the troubled mind.

1:13.0

Some features would be familiar to all of us.

1:16.0

Relatively few visit the cliffs of psychosis,

1:19.0

but the ravines of depression are known to many,

1:21.0

and most of us have crossed the marshes of insomnia at some point.

1:25.6

Winding across this whole vista like a creeping ivy is a condition we all know, to a greater

1:30.8

or lesser extent, because it is part of human life anxiety.

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