This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.

I'm Valerie Sanderson and in this edition...

Reading all the comments of support on that first video showed me that I can make a change in this world.

I can actually have an impact on people by doing this.

Focus on the bigger picture. You know, it's a bad day. It's not a bad life.

We meet a man who's helping millions of people with mental health issues with the support of an unlikely companion.

A roaring success in India as lions make a comeback. How simple breathing techniques have dramatically reduced prison violence in Kenya, also...

The 11-year-old who's taught himself to play the piano in just five months,

and sage advice for graduates from a frog.

Life is better when we leap together.

Music a frog. Life is better when we leap together.

We start with a tale of an unlikely duo who have been helping people with mental health issues. 24-year-old Sid Batty has travelled the world with quack, a cuddly toy duck,

and what started as a simple way to cope with anxiety has turned into a global adventure.

Sid has documented his travels on social media and gained millions of views

for his honest and open conversations about mental health.

He wants to break the stigma around men talking about the issue

and encourage others to be open about their struggles. With quack by his side, Sid spoke to the

happy pods, Holly Gibbs. I was in my second year at university and a couple of years prior I'd

been diagnosed with social anxiety, depression and OCD.

And when I was at university in my second year, it got quite bad.

I was going for a pretty rough period mentally.

And so one day I just decided to go to the local shops and buy something to make myself feel better,

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