Welcome to episode 150!
I’m not sure if 150 episodes is an actual milestone or not, but it sort of feels like one so I wanted to mark it in some way.
I’ve been lucky enough to be asked to tell my own mental health story in a lot of different places but it’s been a long time since I’ve talked about myself on Proper Mental.
Very early on, episode 7 in fact, I did my own episode. At that time, I had a really limited understanding of my own mental health. I didn’t have the vocabulary that I do now and I hadn’t done any of work to explore what had really been going on. I was only a few months post break down, newly medicated and still figuring it all out. It was all very new.
Recently I’ve been getting asked about my experience a bit more and I realised it’s been a long time since I put anything out about me. So, this feels like a good time to put something out.
I didn’t want to do a solo episode and just waffle on for an hour. That feels self-indulgent and I think it would be boring for you to listen to and boring for me to record.
Last year I guested on a wonderful podcast called Full of Beans, it’s hosted by my friend Hannah (who is also a previous Proper Mental guest) and it was one of my favourite podcast appearances.
Hannah was good enough to let me have the audio and that’s what I’m putting out here.
Han is an incredible host. She asks great questions; she really listens and she a lot of wonderful insight that her own experiences have given her. I’ve guested on a lot of awesome podcasts but this one felt particularly special and I ended up chatting about things I wasn’t expecting to.
Huge thanks to Hannah for the original invite and for sharing the recording and go and check out Full of Beans because it’s brilliant!
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