Something from the Cellar: Mental Health Awareness Part 1
White Wine Question Time
Biscuit Jim
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🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This week, in honour of May being Mental Health Awareness month, we’re looking back at three conversations that show the true complexities of mental wellbeing.
First up we have TV fashion Guru, Susannah Constantine! Here she opens about her mother’s mental health battles and how that made her the person she is today. Next up is dancing queen Shirley Ballas, who candidly discusses her relationship with disordered eating and body dysmorphia. Last but not least is the brilliant radio host and DJ Kate Lawler. She shines a light on the harsh realities of postnatal depression.
If you like what you hear, you can listen back to these episodes in full here: Susannah Constantine, Shirley Ballas and Kate Lawler.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of White |
| 0:06.8 | Wine Question Time, something from the cellar. |
| 0:09.6 | A midweek mini drop that allows us to revisit some of our finest conversations. |
| 0:15.1 | And this week, because May is Mental Health Awareness Month, we're looking at three conversations |
| 0:19.8 | that served up some genuine pulse of wisdom when it came to navigating the complexities |
| 0:26.4 | of mental well-being. |
| 0:27.4 | And we're going to kick off with Fashion Guru and TV presenter and author, Susanna Constantine and here she opens up with real candor about what |
| 0:37.8 | it was to be raised by a mother who had very complicated mental health issues and how that went on to inform who she is today. |
| 0:47.0 | I wanted to talk about make or break scenarios. Can you think of a situation or a |
| 0:59.4 | scenario that's been the making of you and also of a time or a scenario that was the |
| 1:06.0 | breaking of you. Wow I think the making of me was or has been walking into my first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting |
| 1:21.6 | because I'm now and that that was like sort of about eight years ago and I think now I am discovering and such sounds such a cliche but I'm discovering who I am not all of it is good at all |
| 1:39.8 | I'm learning my defects you know I can be bit passive aggressive I can be |
| 1:45.2 | co-dependent I can be a bit poor me victim really me. Yeah, that I definitely, I think that that has been the making of me and it's, you know, I'm not made by I'm not made by a long, you know it's a work in progress I am a work in progress |
| 2:08.0 | and I think the breaking of me I don't think I've ever been totally broken. |
| 2:16.3 | Really? That's amazing. |
| 2:18.3 | Yeah, I don't think I've ever been totally broken. |
| 2:21.3 | I've never allowed myself to be totally broken. I've never allowed myself to be totally broken. I'm quite because my |
| 2:26.1 | mother was severely bipolar and you know with multiple suicide attempts. I learnt from a very young |
| 2:37.4 | age to cope. So I've had this coping mechanism which has stood me in good stead actually it's made me very |
| 2:44.9 | very strong in a lot of ways it's also you know damaging in other ways but I think that's |
| 2:52.4 | why I've never truly hit a breaking point. It's probably yet to come. |
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