Johann Hari • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #258
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2019
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, and once more, welcome, to episode 258 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A very powerful deep dive into mental health and wellbeing, depression, symptoms and potential remedies with author of ‘Chasing The Scream’, ‘Lost Connections’ and more - it’s JOHANN HARI!
“I keep thinking this about my book about depression, that in some ways, I feel like I’m giving people permission to know what they knew in their hearts all along”
Pip is often asked if he’ll do a mental health special of the podcast. Well, the truth is, the subject comes up so often that the special itself is happening incrementally all the time. This time round we have an expert thinker and author on it all, who has been through it and has a lot of research to broaden our own thinking on it. Luckily Johann’s approach to speaking on topics is “Would my Nan understand it?”, so you won’t get lost with this one! Pip and Johann cover a huge amount of ground, from experience to anecdote to research, including how depression has increased annually since the early 80’s, how it’s not uncommon for some to not have anyone in their lives that knows them well, how our ways of life have changed but our biology hasn’t, our tribal instincts and how we need them to survive, social alternatives to chemical remedies, the shadow version of a book (the version that hasn’t been read) following around the real one when you’re an author, social media’s false impression of sociability, universal basic income, junk values, work and happiness, childhood trauma and WAY too much to even hint at here. It’s an engrossing one, which will have you thinking hard at the end - some very important nuggets to consider and definitely some very helpful wisdom and gold to enjoy. It’s not a bum-out listen either so don’t worry - all is positive and lightness. Listen, share, but most importantly communicate. Yes - in real life!
LINKS FOR THIS EPISODE:
• JOHANN's BOOK 'LOST CONNECTIONS'
• JOHANN's BOOK 'CHASING THE SCREAM'
THIS EPISODES SPIRIT ANIMALS:
• DPP #211 • Natalie Clapshaw (Headway)
LINKS FOR SCROOBIUS PIP & SPEECH DEVELOPMENT:
• WE ARE LIZARDS! SATURDAY MARCH 30th! info@trashsociety.com for queue jumps
• DISTRACTION PIECES NETWORK on FACEBOOK
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| 0:00.0 | This is a paid advertisement from Better Help. I've got a really clear memory when I first got a |
| 0:06.6 | dog of being really focused on how important all the things I have to do for this cute little guy |
| 0:13.6 | are. Like I need to make sure he's getting walks every day, fresh air every day, fresh water every |
| 0:21.1 | day, eating good food. And it becomes such a kind of a focus and a drive because you want to do all |
| 0:28.0 | you can for this little creature that you love. But we don't always put that much time and |
| 0:32.8 | attention into what we need for ourselves. Like what are our basic requirements to get through |
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| 0:51.5 | variety of expertise in mental health. As far as I know, they've not got any that can help dogs, |
| 0:57.4 | but again, as long as you're dealing with that, then they can help you deal with you as well. |
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| 1:09.5 | B-E-T-T-E-R-H-E-L-P.com slash distraction pod. Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction |
| 1:20.3 | pieces podcast episode 258. I'm going to keep this brief because it's a long episode and I've |
| 1:28.0 | got a bonus episode for you on Friday. Things I want to say off the bat though. Thank you so much |
| 1:35.2 | for the reaction to last week's episode. Last week was a very special episode with |
| 1:40.2 | PC Leon McLeod, who was one of the first three on site during the London terror attack. And he |
| 1:49.6 | gave such an open interview about the effects. More of the after effects was the stuff that caught |
| 1:57.0 | me off guard and surprised me and moved me. So yeah, amazing, amazing guest to have. A new guys' |
| 2:03.2 | reaction was just stunning. A lot of people came back saying that these are the episodes that you |
| 2:09.1 | love. It's great to have famous people, Hollywood stars, but it's the people who've just got these |
| 2:15.3 | stories that mean the most. The tough thing there is I'm not going to lie whilst the reaction |
| 2:21.6 | online is bigger for these names or for these people and their stories. The Hollywood stars and |
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