What’s REALLY going on in your mind?
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
How’s your mental health doing today? Do you ever wish people understood what was actually going on in your mind?
As part of Mental Health Awareness Week, Fearne looks back at some of the conversations she’s had on Happy Place that shine a light on particular mental health conditions.
There’s OCD with Tuppence Middleton, cyclothymia with Matt Edmondson, and psychosis with David Harewood. Plus, neuroscientist TJ Power chats about how to increase serotonin levels, and sleep physiologist Stephanie Romiszewski talks through how to combat insomnia.
Hopefully you’ll find a moment’s solace from connecting over stories you might recognise if you have any of these mental health conditions yourself, and if you don’t... you may well know someone who does...
CONTENT WARNING: as David recalls racist abuse, this episode contains offensive and distressing language.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we start this episode contains language you might find offensive do check the show |
| 0:05.7 | notes for more details. |
| 0:07.2 | Hello and welcome to Happy Place with me Fern Cotton. |
| 0:12.2 | The 13th to the 19th of May is Mental Health Awareness Week. |
| 0:17.0 | So today I wanted to listen back to some of the conversations we've had on the show that shine |
| 0:22.0 | a light on particular mental health conditions. |
| 0:25.0 | When you're experiencing psychosis, it is preceded by this manic period where you're quite high |
| 0:31.0 | and you think this is fun this is I'm if I can control this I'm gonna this is |
| 0:35.9 | going to be great checking lights checking cookies checking taps all of those |
| 0:40.4 | things they they tend to get much worse when I'm in the house a lot and by myself |
| 0:44.9 | a lot and not working. It wasn't that I was just depressed I had this sort of dual thing going on and the |
| 0:50.2 | minute someone put a label on it, it changed my life. |
| 0:53.4 | We're going to learn about O. C. D. from Tuppence Middleton, |
| 0:56.9 | and Cyclothermia from Matt Edmondson. |
| 0:59.4 | David Harwood's talking about reliving his period of psychosis when he was making a documentary about the subject. |
| 1:06.8 | And neuroscientist TJ Power will round off with some chat about, as he puts it, the most |
| 1:12.1 | mental, healthy chemical |
| 1:14.3 | serotonin. How can we help our body make more of it and in turn make our minds |
| 1:19.7 | feel calmer and happier? First though, a conversation you definitely won't have heard on the |
| 1:24.8 | podcast before. Stephanie Romachevsky is a sleep psychologist. She joined me on our |
| 1:30.1 | YouTube series What is How, to chat about insomnia? This is something I am personally |
| 1:36.9 | deeply interested in because I can often have very bad periods of sleep if If I'm stressed, if my anxiety is |
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