489: A path back from PTSD with former war correspondent Dean Yates
Better Than Yesterday with Osher Günsberg
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The Importance of Mental Health in Journalism
I was off at Med seven years before I started taking him. I wasted nearly a decade, you know, and got way sick. My first mission of the cycle, I'm actually telling the nurses I don't want to take value because that would be a sign of weakness. That's what you do now. But previously you were the head of mental health and, and well-being strategy at Reuters is nearly 20 nearly 20 years ago. You'd speak to journalism students now and like, I read the news on, I have to be careful about it. I had a problem with it. He said not getting PTSD is a part of your job description.
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