It’s okay not to be okay | Mental health, stigma and self care

The Wooden Spoon

Sixteenth Productions

Education

4.9 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week’s episode of The Wooden Spoon is diving deeper into the serious topic of mental health. We hear Jade, Ruby, Jack and Eve discuss the stigma surrounding mental health, how people approach mental health in comparison to physical health, as well as what schools and health care systems are doing to help. The group also share their own personal mental health experiences and insights into what they do to look after themselves on a day-to-day basis.

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For further information on the topics in this episode, please visit the amazing websites below:

https://www.thecalmzone.net/

https://www.samaritans.org/

https://www.mind.org.uk/

Featuring Ruby Granger, Jade Bowler, Eve Cornwell and Jack Edwards

Transcript

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0:00.0	Daddy Daddy Daddy!
0:09.9	Hey everyone and welcome back to the Woodenspoon.
0:13.8	So it is Jade here and I'm currently looking out over London.
0:17.7	It is a glorious day, honestly, it feels like Spring has just come in the UK.
0:22.9	It's beautiful.
0:24.0	And I honestly can't believe how quickly season one of the Woodenspoon is going, obviously.
0:29.2	We're already past half way.
0:31.2	It's kind of coming almost to an end which feels very strange because this is a project
0:36.3	that I don't know we've just been working on for so long.
0:38.9	But yes, very proud of how it's going.
0:41.4	So thank you for still being here.
0:43.4	Today we have got a topic which I think is super important to discuss.
0:48.5	And we definitely get a little deep because we are discussing the topic of mental health.
0:54.8	So we're going to be discussing kind of a stigma that we often still have
0:59.7	surrounding talking about our mental health which I think is especially strange
1:04.0	considering that it's 2019.
1:06.1	Like why do we still have that stigma?
1:08.1	We're also going to be discussing some of our own experiences
1:12.9	struggling with our mental health.
1:14.7	And alongside that we're also going to be chatting about some things that we
1:18.8	personally do to look after our mental health,
1:21.8	especially when it can get a little bit rocky or times can get a little bit stressful
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