Are we talking about mental health more than ever, yet understanding it less? Consultant clinical psychologist, Times columnist and broadcaster Prof Tanya Byron thinks so. She joins Trish & Lorraine to talk about her new book, You Are Not a Diagnosis: The Therapy-Speak Trap and the Lost Art of Listening to Ourselves. In their warm & helpful conversation she explains how to cope with ordinary distressing emotions, the difference between a mental health ‘experience’ and a mental health ‘condition’ & when seeking a diagnosis is genuinely useful for you, your child or another loved one. She also shares her tried & tested practical tools for the ‘messiness of being human’ when you feel overwhelmed, overstretched and emotionally exhausted.
Plus: find out how Trish ended up all at sea with the Brazilian navy & why Lorraine is pushing her husband out of an aeroplane!
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