S3 Matt Edmondson: ‘I just thought I sometimes got depressed’

How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John

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Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Elis and John chat to Radio 1 presenter about living with cyclothymia, the impact of losing his Dad and how creating music has become a coping mechanism for him. Warning: This episode contains discussions about suicide. If you or someone you know is in need of help, you can find links to organisations who can provide help and support on the BBC Actionline website.

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0:00.0	BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:04.7	BBC Five Live.
0:06.6	How do you cope with Ellis James and John Robbins?
0:11.5	Thank you for downloading this episode of How Do You Corp?
0:15.0	It's episode five of series three.
0:17.8	We'll be talking about the interview with Matt in a second,
0:20.9	but first and foremost, it falls for me to say to John,
0:25.1	John, how's your shame?
0:27.0	Well, Ellis, we're recording this intro quite a while after the interview we did,
0:33.1	and it's all change for our hero.
0:35.9	I finally got the double red lines.
0:39.0	Oh.
0:40.0	It was always going to happen, so that's kind of, you know,
0:43.6	interrupted a lot of things.
0:45.2	Yeah.
0:46.2	But as it does for a lot of people, I mean, I'm literally like sort of 24 hours into it now,
0:51.1	feeling very rough, but sort of in a mad philosophical way,
0:56.4	thinking I could have got it at worst times, and, you know, I'm triple jabbed,
1:02.9	and also I have one of the great immune systems.
1:05.4	Yeah.
1:06.4	So, I'm hope...
1:07.8	You're immune system at Oxford University.
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