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Lived Experience #3: Anorexia Nervosa
In our third lived experience episode Rebecca speaks with Ella about her experiences with Anorexia: how it started, the effects it had on her thinking, how it affected her family life and her process…
Published on 3 years, 3 months ago
Lived Experience #2: Psychosis (with Ad Gridley)
Ad Gridley was 18 when he had his first cannabis joint while on a gap year in Canada. He had no idea his choices then would – most likely – be the trigger for a 15-year unremitting, downward spiral t…
Published on 3 years, 3 months ago
Interview #40: Psychiatry in a Time of War (With Dr. Natalia Pidkalyuk)
Dr Pidkalyuk is a Ukrainian psychiatrist. Dr Pidkalyuk has worked as a psychiatrist since 2004, and with local government set up a centre for stress disorders in the local polyclinic. In 2021, Dr Pid…
Published on 3 years, 4 months ago
Audio Essay #13 - This is Going to Hurt: Why Growth is Hard (and why you should do it anyway)
How can we define Psychological Growth? Which traits define a mature person? Why is it hard to grow Psychologically? Why Should you do it Anyway?
Audio-essay by Dr. Alex Curmi. Dr. Curmi is a special…
Published on 3 years, 4 months ago
Lived Experience #1: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Religion and Recovery.
Dr Asad Rajput is a FY1 doctor who suffered with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder from a young age. In this episode Rebecca and Asad discuss what it's like to live with OCD, how religion and culture imp…
Published on 3 years, 4 months ago
Interview #39: Stop Being Nice (Dating & Relationships with Dr. Robert Glover)
Dr. Robert Glover is an author, psychotherapist and speaker. He is the author of bestselling men's self help book: No More Mr. Nice Guy. Dr. Glover has devoted his career as a psychotherapist to fre…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
Interview #38: Addiction, the Opioid Epidemic and How to Save Lives (with Professor Sir John Strang)
Professor Sir John Strang is a leading clinical academic. He is head of the Addictions Department at King’s College London and a Consultant Psychiatrist in addictions treatment for over 30 years.
He i…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
Interview #37: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (With Prof. David Veale)
Prof David Veale is a Consultant Psychiatrist and leads a national outpatient and residential unit service for people with severe treatment refractory Obsessive -Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Body Dysmo…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
Interview #36: Providing Drug and Alcohol Treatment and its Challenges (with Dr. Emmert Roberts)
Dr Roberts is an addiction psychiatrist and research fellow working in South London, working with people with addiction to substances as well as addictive behaviours, like gambling.
He conducts resea…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
Interview #35: Dr. Alex George (on Love Island, Public Mental Health, Self-Actualisation, Learning from Failure)
Dr Alex George is a medical NHS doctor. He is well known for featuring on Love Island in 2018. Following the show, Alex has become a leading voice in mental health, and uses his platform to make heal…
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago