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What Do I Do?: Mental Health and Me

By: Kelly Holmes
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  • Summary

  • This deeply personal and supportive series offers listeners an honest and relatable insight into how some the UK's best-known celebrities have coped with mental health difficulties, ranging from OCD to insomnia, addiction to grief, and depression to anxiety.

    Having experienced her own mental health difficulties, with depression and self-harm, Dame Kelly Holmes sets out to discover how other people cope. She joins each guest in a place that makes them feel good: taking a spin class with presenter Davina McCall, baking with comedian Catherine Bohart, and playing the bagpipes with journalist Alastair Campbell in his bathroom.

    Each episode concludes with an expert insight from mental health professionals, Dr David Crepaz-Keay from the Mental Health Foundation and psychotherapist Owen O'Kane, including information about seeking professional help.

    Dame Kelly's other guests include journalist Jon Ronson, author Philip Pullman, comedians Eddie Izzard, Felicity Ward and Rory Bremner, transgender rights activist Munroe Bergdorf and musician Amanda Palmer.

    If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues mentioned in this podcast, please contact the charities below:

    Samaritans - 116 123

    Mind Infoline - 0300 123 3393

    Heads Together- headstogether.org.uk

    Mental Health Foundation - mentalhealth.org.uk

    Young Minds - Text 'YM' to 85258 for urgent support

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Episodes
  • Ep. 1: Davina McCall

    Ep. 1: Davina McCall
    Jan 25 2019

    By the time TV presenter Davina McCall was 23 years old, she was addicted to heroin. Now she’s been clean for 27 years. In this show, Kelly hears about the pain and shame of addiction and the work that Davina did to rebuild her life.

    Davina is well known for her confidence and positivity but at her lowest point she struggled to even look at herself in the mirror. Kelly and Davina both find exercise essential to their wellbeing, so they meet at their local fitness club after an intensive early morning spin class.
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    28 mins
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  • Ep. 2: Alastair Campbell

    Ep. 2: Alastair Campbell
    Jan 25 2019

    Journalist and former spin-doctor, Alastair Campbell, was Tony Blair’s right hand man. He opens up to Kelly about his experience of an alcohol-induced psychotic episode, and explains how his late brother’s schizophrenia motivated him to speak publicly about the importance of mental health. He invites Kelly into his home to show her how he relaxes - by playing the bagpipes in his bathroom.
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    26 mins
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  • Ep. 3: Catherine Bohart

    Ep. 3: Catherine Bohart
    Jan 25 2019

    Comedian Catherine Bohart was hospitalised for months in her early twenties whilst she underwent a life-saving treatment programme for OCD and Body Dysmorphia. She couldn’t imagine living to age 30.

    As Catherine tells Kelly, there’s much more to OCD than handwashing and germ-phobia. Together, they put on their aprons and get the sprinkles out to decorate some cupcakes. For Catherine, baking is a therapeutic activity and a rare chance to escape from thoughts of perfectionism and anxiety.
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Very relatable

I loved it, I struggle daily with depression and this was so relatable, the stories were told in a kind and upbeat way so as not to make you feel worse. My exact experiences were articulated better than I could do myself, it hit home and made me feel seen.

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well worth a listen...

my particular favourite episode was Felicity Wards interview, very glad to have heard everybody's story though :))

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Brilliant Listen

It's not only entertaining but also really helpful to listen to how other people in the public eye cope with or have coped with their mental struggles.

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Very interesting and insightful!

Really enjoyed listening to well known people's experiences of mental health. Fantastic for getting these conversations started.

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Human and Informative

I'm really enjoying this series Dame Kelly is a great interviewer who is candid about her own struggles. She is a passionate advocate for those struggling with mental health issues and aim to destigmatize conversations well-being, I believe she is making strides in achieving this.

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I Loved Them!

Very interesting to listen to and sounds like a calming atmosphere. Picking a space that meant alot to someone to open up about their experiences I think is a great idea. I loved these podcasts and they relaxed me too!

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Wonderful, empowering and honest

Loved it. Listen to it twice. Thank you for this series, very informative, honest and empowering

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loved it, very informative

Loved it, finished all of it. will recommend it again and again. I'll probably listen to it again

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Honest and insightful

Loved it and didn't want it to finish so fast as enjoyed the honest conversation.

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excellent podcast

This is a thoughtful and interesting series. they fould gave done longer interviews - it was fascinating.

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