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Minding Your MindMYM – Best of 2023Ian and James pick their 10 most interesting eps of 2023. If you’re new to Minding Your Mind, this is a good place to start. If you have any questions or comments, email Ian and James at ⁠⁠mindingyourmind2@gmail.com⁠⁠ . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services, you can contact Head to Health at ⁠⁠www.headtohealth.gov.au⁠⁠ , Beyond Blue at ⁠⁠www.beyondblue.org.au⁠⁠ , Lifeline at ⁠⁠www.lifeline.org.au⁠⁠ or on 13 11 14 and ⁠⁠www.headspace.org.au⁠⁠ . Thanks to Future Generation Global. If you would like to help us continue do...2023-12-1848 min

Minding Your MindMYM – Is Being Alone Good For Us?Can being alone be good for us? For some of us, is being alone an essential part of maintaining good mental health? Do some people (e.g. James) need time alone more than others? Why? Is it because he was an only child? If you have any questions or comments email, Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services, you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au , Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au ...2023-11-2839 min

Minding Your MindMYM – Reair: What is Depression?In this episode, Ian and James discuss depression. What is it? How do you know you're depressed? Everyone feels sad sometimes, but what are the signs that you or someone you know might need some help? How do you treat depression? What works? And what doesn’t? If you have any questions or comments, email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services, you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au , Beyond Blue a...2022-12-2643 min

Minding Your MindMYM – Top 10 of 2022Ian and James each pick their favourite five topics that they have discussed this year. If you have any questions or comments, email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services, you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au , Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.com . Thanks to Future Generation Global.2022-12-1934 min

Minding Your MindMYM – ProcrastinationYou know you should, but you don’t. Why do we put off tasks that we know are important? How can we overcome procrastination? What is the relationship between procrastination and anxiety? If you have any questions or comments, email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services, you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au , Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace...2022-11-1430 min

Minding Your MindMYM – VulnerabilityWhat is vulnerability? What is the upside of showing your weaknesses, fears and hopes to another person? Does opening yourself up to them create a strong, trusting bond between you, or are you just arming them with the means to hurt you? If you have any questions or comments, email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services, you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au , Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Li...2022-11-0746 min

Minding Your MindMYM – Different Parenting StylesWhat is the best way to parent a child in their first few years? Clear boundaries, with consequences for transgressions? Or smother them with love and teddy bears, and let them do what they want? Should parents be less protective, or more? Should a parent’s life revolve around their kids, or should the kids fit into their parents’ world? If you have any questions or comments, email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services...2022-10-3144 min

Minding Your MindMYM – ShameShame has been used for centuries by groups and societies to express disapproval to those who behave outside the bounds of what is considered acceptable. Banishment, the stocks, the law, the media and Twitter have all been used to shame. Does shaming work? How damaging is being shamed to your mental health? If you have any questions or comments, email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services, you can contact Head to Health at www.h...2022-10-2433 min

Minding Your MindMYM – EmpathyEmpathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of others. Is empathy a superpower that allows us to understand others and that binds social groups together, or can understanding the pain others feel paralyse us and affect our own mental health? Do some have no empathy? If you have any questions or comments, email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services, you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au , Beyond...2022-10-1741 min

Minding Your MindMYM - DesireDesire happens when we want something; an apple, ice-cream, love, sex. Should we follow our desires? Can desire overwhelm our rational mind, and lead us to make dumb choices? What is the right mix between following our desires and controlling them? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline...2022-10-1034 min

Minding Your MindMYM - Cognitive DissonanceCognitive dissonance occurs when we hold two competing ideas, like ‘I like eating meat’ and ‘eating meat is cruel and bad for the planet’, or ‘I believe in fairness and equality’ and ‘Many don’t have enough to eat and we subscribe to three streaming services,’ or ‘My family must be okay!’ and ‘I can’t control everything that happens to them.’ How does cognitive dissonance affect our mental health? How do we deal with it? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. 2022-10-0329 min

Minding Your MindMYM - Mental Health and the SeasonsOf all the factors that can affect our mental health, one of the most ignored and least understood is the changing of the seasons. During Spring and Autumn, our mental health can be affected by the changing amount of daylight hours. Why does this happen? What can we do about it? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headt...2022-09-2626 min

Minding Your MindMYM – Cognitive Bias and Common Thinking ErrorsWe think we are rational beings, but every day we are affected by cognitive biases. There are common thinking errors we all make all the time. What are they? How can being aware of them help us make better decisions? If you have any questions or comments, email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services, you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au , Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.l...2022-09-1938 min

Minding Your MindMYM – Mental Illness and HospitalsWhen does someone with a mental illness need to go to hospital? How does it happen, especially if the person doesn’t want to go? What is the difference between voluntary and involuntary hospitalisation? What happens to someone who is in hospital for a mental illness? If you have any questions or comments, email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services, you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au , Beyond Blue at www.b...2022-09-1241 min

Minding Your MindMYM – Pain and the MindCan your mind help you control pain? Is there a difference between physical and emotional pain? How similar is the pain of getting dumped by your partner to the pain of putting your hand on a hotplate? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au , Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au o...2022-09-0547 min

Minding Your MindMYM – Guilt and RegretShould we regret our mistakes, or just move on? What purpose does feeling guilty serve? When are regret and guilt useful? Can we get stuck on regretting the past and feeling guilty in a way that damages our mental health? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au , Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.l...2022-08-2936 min

Minding Your MindMYM – MoodinessWhat causes our moods? Why are some people more moody than others? Do we get less moody as we get older? Can we learn to control or at least influence our moods ? How do we cheer ourselves up when in a bad mood? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyo...2022-08-2239 min

Minding Your MindMYM - DenialDenial is when we pretend something isn’t happening, and deliberately don’t think about it. Humans do it a lot. ‘No, I don’t have a drinking problem.’ ‘I’m not stressed, just a bit busy at work’. ‘I’m fine. I feel great’. Why do we go into denial? How do we stop? Is denial sometimes useful? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Heal...2022-08-1542 min

Minding Your MindMYM - Food, Drink and Mental HealthHow much influence does what you eat and drink have on your mental health? What should you eat and drink for good mental health? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au Thanks to Future Generation Global 2022-08-0840 min

Minding Your MindMYM - Atypical DepressionAtypical depression is a type of depression that is more episodic. Someone feels fine for a few days, then plunges into a deep depression for the next few. Then the pattern repeats. What causes it and how is it treated? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.l...2022-08-0146 min

Minding Your MindMYM - FriendshipHow important is friendship at different stages of life? How important is it for good mental health? How do you make friends? What makes a good friend? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au. Thanks to Future G...2022-07-2537 min

Minding Your MindMYM - Living With Someone With Mental illnessIf you are living with someone who has mental illness, what should do you do? How can you help? What are the right, and wrong, things to say and do? And how do you take care of yourself? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.o...2022-07-1848 min

Minding Your MindMYM - Gender Differences and SimilaritiesMany parents say boys and girls are different from day 1. Boys run around more, girls do quieter activities. Is that just people bringing their own preconceptions and prejudices into it, or is there some physiological truth there? How different are the genders? Are men more aggressive? Women more caring? What about those who don’t feel that the gender identity they were given at birth fits? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out mo...2022-07-1146 min

Minding Your MindMYM - Diagnosing Mental IllnessHow are mental illness and mental health conditions diagnosed? How often do mental health professionals get it right? Are they getting better at it? Shouldn’t there be a machine by now, that can just look at our brain and tell us exactly what is going on? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at ww...2022-07-0446 min

Minding Your MindMYM - HoardingMany of us have too much stuff, but find it hard to get rid of any of it. Who knows, you just might need that year 10 maths book one day. For some, hoarding becomes a real problem that interferes with their life. Why do people hoard? How do you treat hoarding? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headt...2022-06-2741 min

Minding Your MindMYM - AmbitionWhat makes us want to get to the top? What is ambition? Where does it come from? What is the right mix between having goals, but not being so focussed on them that we forget to enjoy the ride? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com. Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue atwww.beyondblue.org.au, Lifeline at www.life...2022-06-2041 min

Minding Your MindMYM - Why Do We Have Kids?Do we have kids because of a genetically strong instinct? Or because we want to nurture and love? Could it be because we want to feel important? Or even be because we think doing so might help us become better people? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline...2022-06-1343 min

Minding Your MindMYM - IdentityFinally, the biggest question of all. Who are you? How do we work out our identity? How does it change through life? How does our sense of our who we are affect our mental health? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 1...2022-06-0639 min

Minding Your MindMYM - StatusWhenever we talk to someone at work, socially or at home, status is almost always a factor. How is our status determined? Is it all about relative power, or at least our perception of it? How does our status affect our mental health? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au ...2022-05-3041 min

Minding Your MindMYM - BulliesEveryone has experienced a bully at school or in the workplace. How do you deal with bullies? Why do some people bully others? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au.Thanks to Future Generation Global.2022-05-2342 min

Minding Your MindMYM - How Do You Deal With a Crisis?When bad things happen – a loved one dies, a natural disaster, the end of a relationship - how do we deal with it? Can we learn to cope better? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au. Thanks to...2022-05-1633 min

Minding Your MindMYM - Free WillWe think we have free will, but do we? When facing with traffic jams, deadlines, or a free weekend, do we behave very predictably? Is will power all it is cracked up to be? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 1...2022-05-1039 min

Minding Your MindMYM - NarcissistsNarcissism involves inflated self-importance, inability to handle criticism, a need for admiration and a disregard for the feelings of others. But aren’t we are all a bit like that sometimes? How do you deal with narcissists? What to do you do if you have some of those tendencies yourself? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au ...2022-05-0242 min

Minding Your MindMYM - Self EsteemYour self-esteem is what you think of yourself. Do you think you’re a good person, and capable of doing things? Some people have low self-esteem. Others have very high self-esteem. What determines our self-esteem? How important is it? If our self-esteem is low, how can we raise it? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyo...2022-04-2541 min

Minding Your MindMYM - ADHDWhat is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder? How is it diagnosed and treated? Do kids sometimes grow out of it? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au. Thanks to Future Generation Global.2022-04-1842 min

Minding Your MindMYM - Social and Separation AnxietyWho gets nervous walking alone into a party? Many of us are shy and socially anxious. What can we do about it? Kids often have separation anxiety, where they are uncomfortable being separated from parents. How can it be treated? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.l...2022-04-1148 min

Minding Your MindMYM - What Is The Subconscious?What is your subconscious? What is happening in your mind, apart from the thoughts and feelings you are aware of? When you approach a puddle and your steps automatically adjust so your foot lands exactly at the edge, how does that happen? What is instinct? If you think, ‘I don’t trust that guy?’ but don’t know why, is your subconscious analysing tone of voice, patterns of speech, facial expressions and body language, comparing them with previous experience and concluding there is a high chance that guy isn’t trustworthy? If you have any questions or comments e...2022-04-0435 min

Minding Your MindMYM - AutonomyHaving a degree of autonomy- the ability to have some control over your life and work- continually comes up as an important factor in good mental health. Why is autonomy so important to us? How can we get more of it? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline...2022-03-2143 min

Minding Your MindMYM - The Politics of Mental healthWhy do mental services lag so far behind the demand for them? Why is there so much difficulty turning government plans into reality? Federal/State, Labor/ Liberal. How can we fix it all and provide a mental health system that we all need and deserve? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyo...2022-03-1441 min

Minding Your MindMYM - Eating DisordersHow can our relationship with food become unhealthy? What are the types of eating disorders, and how can each be treated. Ian and James are joined by psychologist, researcher, and director of the Inside Out Institute, Australia’s national institute for research and clinical excellence in eating disorders, Dr Sarah Maguire The “InsideOut Institute Podcast” can be heard at Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/insideout-institute-podcast/id1454173233 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/insideoutinstitutepodcast Or via their website https://insideoutinstitute.org.au/podcasts If you have any questions or comments email Ian...2022-03-071h 05

Minding Your MindMYM - Understanding The Mental Health SystemIf you or someone you care about has a mental health problem, what should you do? Let’s get practical. What do you do? Who do you need to see? How can they help you? What does it cost? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifelin...2022-02-2833 min

Minding Your MindMYM - How Therapy WorksMany try to treat mental illness, or improve their mental health, through therapy or counselling with a psychologist, counsellor or psychiatrist. But how does therapy work. If you are going to get your knee fixed, a surgeon can tell you exactly the process they will go through, and how it will work. Let’s try and do something similar with therapy If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and suppor...2022-02-2144 min

Minding Your MindMYM - What Is Love?What is love? The highest, most blissful state known to humans, or something close to a mental illness? What are the different types of love? Obsessive, possessive, ‘I must have her/him’ love; Infatuation and ‘in love’, which have similarities to certain kinds of mental illness. Why can love become possessive and turn ugly? What about selfless love, where you just want what is best for the other person (as long as it’s also what’s best for you). If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other...2022-02-1438 min

Minding Your MindMYM - What Do Psychiatrists Do?Doctors who specialise in mental health, psychiatrists, are at the top of the tree when it comes to treating those with mental illness. But what can psychiatrists do, that a counsellor or psychologist can’t? When does someone experiencing a mental health issue need to see a psychiatrists, rather than a counsllor If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.hea...2022-02-0736 min

Minding Your MindMYM - Long CovidWhat is Long Covid, who is most at risk of getting it, and why are we talking about it on a podcast about mental health? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au. Thanks to Future Generation 2022-01-3140 min

Minding Your MindMYM - Should We Talk About Death?Sadly, we’re all going to die. Most of us spend our lives desperately trying to ignore that uncomfortable truth, but is it a good idea to spend some time thinking and talking about death before it gets too close? If so, how do we actually do it? What about those who are dying – do they want to talk about death, or desperately avoid the subject? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more...2022-01-2441 min

Minding Your MindMYM - Short Term, Medium Term ThreatsWhen threats are right in front of us, whether it be a sabre toothed tiger or Covid, we are usually pretty good at taking action. But what about threats that we know are coming, but which are a little further away, like Climate Change? Why can it seem so hard to get the same type of unified action to deal? Is it the fault of politicians? Or of the three year electoral cycle, that incentivises short term over long term thinking? Or is it that our brains find it difficult to get beyond the immediate physical world...2022-01-1736 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - More Covid AnxietyIn Covid lockdown there were clear rules to follow. Now, things have changed and Governments are urging us to exercise personal responsibility. The onus has now shifted to us to assess risk and make sensible decisions, even though we often lack access to the information we need to do so. How do we assess the risk of getting Covid from getting on a plane or a bus, going to the pub or letting our kids go to the movies? And how do we deal with the anxiety that making those decisions that can bring? If you have...2022-01-1042 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - Best of The YearIn 2021 we recorded 49 eps of Minding Your Mind. In this ep, James and Ian run through their favourite topics and guests, and the pieces of information and advice that have stayed with them. If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and...2022-01-0334 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - Resolutions and HabitsIt’s all very well to make resolutions, but how do you stop them dissolving into well intentioned nothingness? How do we turn worthy objectives into repeatable actions? How do you make something that is difficult but good for you, like exercise, a habit? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyon...2021-12-2737 min

Minding Your MindMYM - The 7 Secrets To HappinessWe examine Irish psychiatrist Anthony Clare’s 7 secrets of happiness. What are they? What did he miss? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au Thanks to Future Generation Global 2021-12-2146 min

Minding Your MindMYM Physical Problems that Occur With Mental IllnessWhat is the relationship between mental and physical health? What sort of physical health issues are those with mental illness more likely to experience? What implications does this have for the way we treatm both physical and mental health? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www...2021-12-1333 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - AddictionWhen does something you enjoy - alcohol, drugs, online porn, shopping, your phone - become an addiction? Are some more prone to addiction than others? What are the most successful ways to break addictions? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or...2021-12-1041 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - Family Dynamics 2 The Christmas SpecialChristmas is supposed to be this perfect family day, but what if it’s not? What if every year the same sniping, arguments and resentments re-surface until it ends in drunken tears? Is Christmas compulsory, or is it sometimes wiser to duck it? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.a...2021-12-0637 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - Family DynamicsHow do parents, children, siblings and partners influence each other’s mental health? How do families patterns of behaviour continue to influence us as we grow older? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au. Thanks to Fu...2021-12-0344 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - New Mental Health TreatmentsKetamine has been used as horse tranquiliser but it might also be able to help treat mental illness. We discuss it, and other novel mental health treatments. Do they work? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.com...2021-11-2933 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - Worldwide Attitudes to Mental Health With Miranda WolpertOver the last 20 years, a lot has been done around the world to raise awareness of mental health. Miranda Wolpert, Director of Mental Health at the UK’s Wellcome foundation, joins us to discuss the results of a worldwide survey of attitudes toward mental health, and the future of research and treatment. If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www...2021-11-2636 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - SchizophreniaSchizophrenia might be the most difficult to understand mental illness. Why do some people hear voices? How do you treat schitzophrenia? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au. Thanks to Future Generation Global 2021-11-2241 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - Mental Health and Creativity with NEIL COLESome great thinkers, writers and painters have experienced mental illness, but so have plumbers, accountants and school teachers. Is there a link between creativity and mental illness? If so, then when you treat the mental illness, is creativity lost? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www...2021-11-1936 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - TechnologyOur reliance on technology - phones, screens, apps – is often seen as detrimental to mental health, but there are innovative ways new technology can help us diagnose and treat mental illness, and improve our mental health. If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or...2021-11-1532 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - InsomniaIf you can’t get to sleep and don’t get enough sleep, it can affect your mood and your mental health. Why does insomnia happen and what do you do about it? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www...2021-11-1245 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - The Brain From Birth to Old AgeHow does your brain change from when you are born until, let’s be optimistic, you reach 100? Is it like a bell curve? Does it start out not being able to do much at all, then increase its’ capacity through childhood, coast along in adulthood until it starts to slow down? Or is it not like that at all? Do different parts of your brain – the rational, the emotional, risk-assessment etc – evolve at different speeds? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like the...2021-11-0840 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - Mental Health and Humour with Greig PickhaverIs exercising your sense of humour good for your mental health? Greig Pickhaver, aka HG Nelson of Roy and HG, This Sporting Life and Bludging on the Blindside fame, joins us to discuss the links between humour and good mental health, how to exercise your sense of humour if you think you’re just not a funny person, and the line between ‘just joking’ and picking on someone If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find...2021-11-0549 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - HypochondriaAt what point does being vigilant about your health become over-anxious hypochondria? Why does it happen? How do you treat hypochondria? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au. Thanks to Future Generation Global 2021-11-0136 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - Rick Morton and TraumaIf you experience trauma in childhood, how likely is it to be a cause of later mental illness? To what extent do traumatic experiences become embedded within a person, and become almost a part of you? How do you work out how past evets are affecting you? If you do work it out, what do you do about it? investigative journalist Rick Morton, author of One Hundred Years of Dirt, and My Year of Living Vulnerably discusses his attempts to discover how his traumatic experiences growing up in rural Qld affected him, and how to he could escape their...2021-10-2944 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - Trauma and MemoriesWhat is trauma? If something traumatic happens to you as a child or an adult, how does your mind and memory process it? How can that trauma affect us, even years later? What can we do to deal with those affects? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lif...2021-10-2539 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - The yipsProfessional golfers sometimes forget how to putt. They’ve spent years putting thousands of balls, then suddenly they can’t do it anymore. It’s called ‘The Yips’ and a similar thing can afflict gymnasts, baseball players and tennis players. What is ‘The Yips’? How can you forget an action that you have practiced for years? Is it about anxiety, or something else? How do you cure ‘The Yips’? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more a...2021-10-2238 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - Ross Gittins and Mental WealthCOVID prompted discussion about how we reconcile economic priorities with our collective mental health and wellbeing. Why can’t we have both? Should we broaden our focus past economic growth and the simplistic notion that ‘the economy comes first’ to include the ‘mental wealth’ of our nation. What would that even mean? How would it help? How would you measure it? SMH Economics Editor Ross Gittins joins us to discuss. If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find...2021-10-1840 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - BipolarWhat is bi-polar disorder. How does it manifest? Why does it happen? What do you about it? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au. Thanks to Future Generation Global.2021-10-1530 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - OCDObsessive Compulsive Disorder, or OCD, is having repetitive, intrusive thoughts, or feeling the need to repeat routines, like washing your hands, counting, or checking doors are locked. Many of us have habits and routines, but some find they take over their life. How do you know when patterns and routines become an issue you should deal with? Why does OCD happen? How do you treat it? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find ou...2021-10-1145 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - Malcolm Turnbull and VulnerabilityFormer Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull talks openly about experiencing depression following his loss of the Liberal leadership in 2009, and what he learnt from that experience about himself. Afterwards, knowing he had a vulnerability to depression, he explains how he managed it. If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lif...2021-10-0846 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - How Do We Change?Sometimes we realise we’re not perfect. It’s very confronting. If you want to change something about yourself – become less irritable, or more assertive, stop losing your temper, worry less – how do you do it? Are our character traits hard-wired, or can we change our brains and improve ourselves? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Be...2021-10-0445 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - What Can We Learn About Mental Health From Athletes?High profile athletes look like they’re living the dream, but they are often under tremendous psychological pressures. They might have support from psychologists etc, but does that actually help? What can we learn from high profile sportspeople about what psychological strategies work, and which don’t? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at...2021-10-0240 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - BurnoutWhat is ‘burnout’? A temporary loss of motivation and energy at work that can be fixed by a week at the beach? Or an indicator of mental exhaustion and a sign a person might be psychologically unwell? If you experience ‘burnout’, what should you do? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondb...2021-09-2740 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - Mental Health In Schools With Mark ScottAs kids grow up, the two places they learn most about mental health and wellbeing, are at home and at school. What role do educational institutions - childcare, school, tertiary education – play in teaching children and young adults about mental health? How do they do it? Should they be doing more? What is the right balance between challenging students to help them build skills and confidence, and creating a pressure filled environment that can contribute to anxiety and mental illness? Former ABC boss and NSW Dept of Education head, now Vice Chancellor of USyd, Mark Scott joins us to di...2021-09-2443 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - What Runs In Families And What Doesn't?What runs in families and what doesn’t? We inherit eye colour and height, but can our parents also pass on an anxious temperament? What about optimism? A quick temper? Shyness? Ambition? A vulnerability to depression? We discuss what we inherit, and what we don’t. If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.b...2021-09-2036 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - Risk Taking For Children - Daisy TurnbullAs children grow up, how do they learn to assess risk and make good decisions? How do parents help kids learn to weigh up risks, when usually their instinct is to protect the little darlings. At what age should you let your kid walk to the shops alone? Where is the sweet spot between ‘helicopter parenting’ and going ‘free range’? Daisy Turnbull, author of 50 risks to take with your kids, joins us. If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover.2021-09-1741 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - Childhood AnxietyAnxiety is the most common mental health problem in children. Children can feel anxious about meeting new people, entering new situations, being alone, school marks, dogs, and more. Being a bit anxious about danger keeps kids safe, but too much anxiety can feel horrible, and stop kids from socialising and experiencing new things. What can parents do to help an anxious child? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression an...2021-09-1342 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - Preventing Suicidal Behaviour – What Can We Do?When someone tries to take their own life, it’s common for family, friends and workmates to think, ‘What did I miss?’ What are the signs someone is considering suicide? What can you do if you notice them? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org...2021-09-0930 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - Which ‘Self Help’ Really Helps?The term ‘Self Help’ is a promise; ‘If you do this activity, you will feel better’. But which Self Help practices actually help? We assess common self-help practices, from yoga to reading, exercise to socialising, meditation to ‘purposeful activity’ and assess the benefits of each. If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org...2021-09-0640 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - Does Emotion Or Thinking Drive Our Brain?Are we humans primarily rational or emotional? Are our decisions driven by carefully worked out thoughts? Or are we bundles of emotion, driven by feelings? When you make a big decision, do you work out the pros and cons in a rational way? Or, deep down, are feelings – fear and hope especially – in the driver’s seat? How much does the balance between making emotion and thought based decisions vary between people? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover.2021-09-0334 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - Hope And DespairDespair and Hope. Opposite sides of the same coin. What is despair? Is it normal and natural, or a sign of poor mental health and something that should be ‘cured’? Can despair be appropriate and even, sometimes, useful? What about hope? Is it a bright shiny jewel that helps us through tough times, or dreamy escapism? Does hope that things will improve sustain us in the tough times, or is it just a way of avoiding reality ? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them kno...2021-08-3031 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - One Person’s Experience of the Mental Health System From Both Outside And InSam Hockey’s first experience of the mental health system was as a young person seeking help. Now he works within the mental health system. We hear how Sam’s experience as a patient has shaped his work, and his views on how to improve mental health and it’s treatment. You can listen to the Facing It podcast co-hosted by Sam and Haley Venables here. If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out...2021-08-2745 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - TrustWho do you trust, and why? With COVID, our trust is being tested. What level of trust do families, communities, workplaces and societies need to operate effectively? Why can trust break down? What happens when it does? How do you build it back up again? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.be...2021-08-2340 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - Religion, Spirituality and Mental Health with Geraldine DoogueWhat is the difference between religion and spirituality? What influence does each have on our mental health? The ABC’s Geraldine Doogue joins us to examine what ‘spirituality’ can mean, and whether feeling connected to something bigger that yourself is good for your mental health. Geraldine mentions two books in the podcast, The Politics of Hope by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and Intimacy and Solitude by Stephanie Dowrick. Both are readily available online through your preferred search engine. Geraldine also co-hosts the popular podcast Long Distance Call with her daughter Eliza Harvey. If you have any...2021-08-2045 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - Anger!!!Is anger useful? Where does it come from? Why is it so hard to control? When we lose our temper, why do we so often regret it? Sure, anger helped us punch out sabre-tooths, but how useful is it the 21st century? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , L...2021-08-1742 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - Improving Access to Care For Young PeopleWhat challenges do people, especially young people and women, face when they present for mental health care? Psychiatrist Dr Liz Scott joins us to discuss the ways in which people’s experience of mental health services can be less than ideal, and what we can do to improve them. Dr Liz Scott is a psychiatrist and an Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them...2021-08-1342 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - How improving physical health can improve mental healthIn the old days we viewed the body and the mind as two very separate things. Not any more. The Health Report and Coronacast presenter Dr Norman Swan joins us to discuss how taking care of your physical health can also improve your mental health. We discuss, diet, exercise, alcohol, sleep, chronic pain and more. Dr Norman Swan’s new book is So You Think You Know What’s Good For You? The Ultimate Health Guide If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics...2021-08-1037 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - Corporate Australia and Mental HealthWhat progress have employers made in taking better care of the mental health of their people? Samantha Mostyn AO, a corporate and not-for-profit leader and one of Australia’s’ first mental health commissioners, joins us. In the age of COVID when work, employment and education have been disrupted, what more can be done by business, and the non-government sector to improve mental health. If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression...2021-08-0649 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - RiskThis is the Astra Zeneca ep. It’s about how we calculate risk and make decisions. Is our assessment of risk governed by our rational mind, or by our emotions? Do we overestimate the risk of doing something (e.g. taking a vaccine) and underestimate the risk of not doing something (e.g. not taking a vaccine). When we face tiny risks like a 1 in a million chance, are the numbers so big we can’t compute them? And if we aren’t being completely rational in the way we assess risk, how can we get better at it? ...2021-08-0433 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - AnxietyAnxiety can be important and useful in helping us to be aware of, and react to, threats, study for exams and prepare for job interviews. But why does worry sometimes get out of control? When does anxiety become a mental health issue? And when it does, how do we get an over-anxious mind under control? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to He...2021-07-3038 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - The Importance of social connection in Indigenous cultureIn ep 5 we discussed the importance of social connection, and whether modern psychology and wellbeing focusses too much on the individual and not enough on the group. In this ep Professor Jaky Troy, Director of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research, at USYD joins to us to explore how indigenous Australian culture takes more of a group orientated approach to mental health and wellbeing, and some of the benefits of doing so. If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to co...2021-07-2839 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - The Importance of Social ConnectionModern psychology focusses mainly on what you, the individual, can do to improve your mental health, but are we missing something? Humans are social animals, so shouldn’t we also focus on what we can do to improve the collective mental health of the various groups we belong to – our family group, friend group, workplace and community. How do we go about doing that? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depr...2021-07-2036 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind: Lockdown and Mental HealthIan and James discuss lockdown. Being in a Covid lockdown isn’t fun, but until enough of us get vaccinated, they are a fact of life. In lockdown you might feel bored, worried, stressed, uncertain about the future and financially anxious. And day two could be worse. What can you do to take care of your mental health during lockdown? If you have any questions or comments about depression, or other areas of mental health, email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find...2021-07-1340 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - Body Clocks: What Are They and Why Do They matter?Ian and James discuss body clocks. What are they? How do they work? And how can understanding our own body clock help you control anxiety and depression? If you have any questions or comments about depression, or other areas of mental health, email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on...2021-07-0632 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - Mental Illness in Young People and the Benefits of Early InterventionIan and James discuss Early Intervention. What is it? How effective is early intervention in diagnosing and treating mental illness, especially in young people? What are the signs that a young person might have a mental health condition? If you have any questions or comments about depression, or other areas of mental health, email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au Beyond Blue at www...2021-06-2937 min

Minding Your MindMinding Your Mind - What Is Depression?In this episode, Ian and James discuss depression. What is it? How do you know you‘re depressed? Everyone feels sad sometimes, but what are the signs that you, or someone you know, might need some help? How do you treat depression? What works? And what doesn’t? If you have any questions or comments about depression, or other areas of mental health, email Ian and James at mindingyourmind2@gmail.com . Feel free to let us know any other topics you’d like us to cover. To find out more about depression and support services you can con...2021-06-2443 min