Why Mental Health Is Nothing To Do With Wellness, with Author Bella Mackie

The High Low

Society & Culture

4.8 • 9.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

We talk perineum sunning, Christmas tree erection, global idioms and polygraphs. And we host the journalist and author of Jog On: How Running Saved My Life and The Jog On Journal, Bella Mackie, to discuss mental health, running and why it's nothing to do with wellness or personal bests, divorce before the age of 30 and what the media gets wrong about mental health.

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Links

Jog On: How Running Saved My Life, by Bella Mackie

The Jog on Journal, by Bella Mackie

Being Single at 30, by Bella Mackie for British Vogue https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/being-single-at-30-a-vogue-memoir

How I Found My Wedding Dress (For The Second Time), by Bella Mackie for British Vogue https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/how-i-chose-the-dress-for-my-second-wedding

In the Dream House, by Carmen Maria Machado

When I Hit You, by Meena Kandasamy

Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator, on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/80221584

David Merritt on the death of his son, Jack Merritt, for The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/dec/02/jack-merritt-london-bridge-attack-dave-merrit

For Desire, by Kim Addonizio http://pureapplesauce.blogspot.com/2009/01/for-desire-kim-addonizio.html

Derren Brown on The Adam Buxton podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ep-110-derren-brown/id1040481893?i=1000457582733

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Highloat, the weekly current affairs and pop culture podcast brought to you by Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes.
0:22.0	And it's Christmas! Sort of almost, I love December. Me too. My tree is up, I've been working to Christmas carols.
0:31.0	Oh I have as well, carols from kings. You can get classical Christmas as well on Spotify. So nice.
0:38.0	Rinsing all of it. I listened to back-to-back Christmas music on Saturday while I had an absolute nightmare putting my tree up.
0:48.0	Why? Because putting a six foot tree up on your own. It actually got to a point where it took me, I would say, four and a half hours.
0:58.0	And it got to a point where I was almost watching myself do it. I just thought this would be a montage in a rom-com when a single 30-something woman realises shoes all alone.
1:11.0	You should have got either a man-pal or a gal-pal to come over and it could have been like a fun bonding exercise.
1:18.0	I tell you what, I did find myself on hinge immediately afterwards because I just thought this cannot happen next year.
1:23.0	That's not as sad as if you had gone on to task rabbit and paid whatever it is, 98 pounds for someone to come and help you put your absolutely hideous ornaments on your tree.
1:34.0	I really need to take you some more. I think it's fine that you've got like sort of rod Stuart and come in a parker balls.
1:40.0	Come in a parker balls on that. But you just don't really have much else.
1:43.0	I've got a mini Tabasco. I've got a mini lobster. I think we need some more balls. Big Gurkin.
1:49.0	More balls? It was an absolute nightmare. How did yours? Did I only do it by himself?
1:55.0	What, put it up? Yeah. Mine's smaller than yours.
1:59.0	Mine fell over. Mine fell over too many times. At one point it fell over onto my own head.
2:06.0	It went completely lot-sided so it was just lying on top of me.
2:11.0	We're speaking of romance, divorce and heterosexual couples has fallen to its lowest record for half a century.
2:17.0	I think that's extraordinarily good news. It's apparently due to processing application errors.
2:23.0	That's a very British reason. So romance is still dead.
2:28.0	I've got an early Christmas treat for you, Panda, as a log of file.
2:31.0	It's a log of file. Someone who loves words.
2:33.0	God, I didn't know that.
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