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E21: Mental Health, Mistakes and My Apologies

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Don't Let the Pressures From the Fairy Tales Get You Down

"Don't let the pressures from the fairy tales of how your life is meant to be going, get you down," he writes. "I received a very disturbing and saddening call at about 3 a.m. from a kid who I'm just going to call John for his own privacy." He was stood by the lake and told me that he was going to kill himself. 'Everything in my life is going right. I don't have anything going for me,' said one young man on the line with him. "'You have everything figured out.' Oh my fucking God,'" says Steve.

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