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Aware Podcast

Aware Podcast

Season 2, Ep. 9

Dr Peter Abraham is a clinical psychologist with an amazing story of strength, mental fortitude and self belief.This very candid interview explores mental illness form the perspective of a young boy blindsided by a psychotic episode, put in one of the worst adult psychiatric hospitals of the time only to recover and find himself in a foreign country, with corrupt police and a very scary and real jail sentience, in one of the toughest prisons, on trumped up charges. Peter talks for the very first time, about how his earlier experiences learning to understand and control his mindset saved him from the terror and violence of the environment he found himself in. A lifetime later he returns to this dark memory and place with his wife. What happened is incredible.

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