Gary Talks: Recent Episodes
Gary Campbell
Talking about the topics people shy away and avoid the first episode is around suicide awareness and prevention and will be launched on World suicide prevention Day 2020 which is on Thursday, the 10th of September. Episode 2 is all about addiction and I speak to a former addict around their alcohol and drug addiction and how they overcome it.
Today is the 10th October and it’s world mental health awareness day this episode is all around depression. Around 264 million people across the world suffer with depression. Depression is a mental illness that is not visible to people it’s also a illness that people don’t wanna talk about because they feel embarrassed. On today’s episode I talk what is depression, what causes depression, how does depression affect the brain, what are the symptoms of depression and how depression is treated. I also interview Billy; Billy is a 26-year-old young man from Leeds in the United Kingdom who suffers from depression he wrote a very open and personal post on Facebook in Aug 2020 that went viral he’s helped so many people and encouraged them to reach out and get help around their depression. Billy talks about his depression how bad it got and what made him get help and what he is doing now to help others suffering from depression.
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In this episode I will talk about what addiction is, addiction is a disease, I’ll talk about the science behind addiction the impact addiction can have on people suffering with mental health illnesses. I’ll be joined by Zoe who will be sharing her story around her addiction to alcohol and drugs she’ll be telling me about how much better her life is and her family life once she took the step to reach out and get help and support to start her on the road recovery . Zoe has been clean and sober since 24th May 2019 👏🏼
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This episode is a episode on suicide awareness and prevention as we see rising numbers in suicide across the globe we now face the biggest challenge around suicide rates than we’ve ever faced before on the back of the COVID-19 pandemic. There is a real risk that we will see already rising numbers increase to rates never seen before. We all have to do more to prevent suicide deaths this episode will talk you through some of the signs and behaviours a suicidal person will display, what you can do to help a suicidal person, what you can do to intervene and interrupt somebody’s suicidal thoughts. It will help you start a conversation, a conversation that can be a life saving conversation, this episode will help you with your listening skills which are crucial to listening to a suicidal person. If this episode helps save one persons life it’s one less suicidal deaths.
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