In this episode, we meet James, our new host who discusses his background and experience of bereavement, offers some helpful services which are open if you need them over Christmas and New Year, as well as teasing podcasts for the upcoming year.

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What is neurodiversity? how does it differ to personality and what are the things we can do to try understand and embrace our difference? These are just a couple of the questions that Chris tries to answer with Ben and Becky. Ben works on the ADHD pathway and Becky on the Autism pathway in CAMHS. This episode gives a real insight into the sort of things people who are neurodivergent may struggle with, but also the ways to try and manage these potential struggles and how they overlap with mental health. Like all of these videos its all about linking back to the potential support and resources so click the link to watch the full Youtube video and access different mental health resources. https://linkin.bio/survivinginthewild

Enjoy 

Bookmarks:

00:00 Start

00:08 What we are going to cover in the episode 

00:10 What is neurodiversity? What is ADHD and ASD?

00:14 Neurodiversity vs personality

00:22 Neurodiversity overlapping with mental health 

00:26 The world hindering vs the world helping 

00:30 Why and why not a diagnosis?

00:37 Executive functioning and masking

00:40 Self diagnosis

00:47 Implementing strategies

00:53 How do Becky and Ben survive in the wild

You can watch the full episode on youtube here

Surviving In the wild - YouTube

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In this crossover episode, we chat to Charlotte from St Leonard's Hospice all about depression and grief; the differences, where does the signs and symptoms, how to manage it and most importantly highlighting that grief is NOT a mental health condition. Its hard to find reliable information about mental health on social media so this is why surviving in the wild exists! Go visit our Youtube Surviving In the wild - YouTube to see the video of the episode or if you want to jump to different sections of the podcast you can see the time stamps below! Enjoy.

Bookmarks

0 - Check in and who is Charlotte from St Leonard's

4 - Understanding low mod vs depression

1023 - Misconceptions of depression and medication?

1730 - Signs and symptoms

2130 - Grief is not a mental health condition!

3043 - Attitudes to grief

34 - Talking about death and how to help others

42 - How to manage and how does Charlotte manage

5620 - Final thoughts

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Chris is joined by Kirsty and Emily from the Well being in Mind team who exist to support young people who have mental health struggles and to help them manage in a school environment. Why is school so hard and what is the impact when you already are struggling with your mental health? Is it the pressure? Is it in the environment, or something else? We try to answer these questions whilst also hearing anecdotes about how they all manage!
Enjoy!

Chapters;
00:00 Start
01:30 Check in
04:15 What are the Well Being in Mind teams
08:00 Is school getting harder?
15:00 Exams and expectation
19:00 How do they work with young people?
24:00 Learning how to fail and not focusing on grades
30:00 Anxiety vs social anxiety
38:15 How do Kirsty and Emily survive in the wild?
41:30 Final tips for surviving in school

If you are trying to find support click this link for support, services and resources across North Yorkshire and Humber.

https://linkin.bio/survivinginthewild

This channel has been created with young people by York Mind, and has been funded the by North Yorkshire and Humber health and care partnership.

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In this crossover episode, we chat to Alex from CAMHS all about anxiety; why we get it, where does it come from, how to manage it and everything in between! Alex is a Senior Children's Wellbeing Practitioner who featured in Season 1 Episode 8 of chat chit, where you can go back and listen to a bit more about what he does to manage his own mental health. Its hard to find reliable information about mental health on social media so this is why surviving in the wild exists! Go visit our youtube Surviving In the wild - YouTube to see the video of the episode or if you want to jump to different sections of the podcast you can see the time stamps below! Enjoy.

Bookmarks

0 – Who is Alex?

5:40 – Understanding anxiety in the brain and where it comes from

13 - Why we experience anxiety differently... our bodies fire alarm!

20 - Physical symptoms

26 - Avoidance of anxiety, does it help?

30 - What is habituation?

33 - How Alex would work with a person struggling with anxiety

37:40 – Practicing skills

43 - Why breathing helps!

50 - Grounding technique

58 - How does Alex survive in the wild?

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We thought the place to start with Surviving in the wild would be first to discuss the issues around the stigma of mental health and why people don't reach out. Firstly you ought to know you can watch all the videos of the project on hour youtube channel Surviving In the wild - YouTube

Stigma then; Why do we feel it? How does it feel? Do people feel it differently? Liam and Ben will be joining me to answer all of these questions. Both cocreation and engagement dabblers, they will be joining me (chris) to spit some facts and obscure metaphors around mental health and reaching out in this fundamentally odd first episode. See the bookmarks below if you want to jump to different sections of the episode. Enjoy.

Minutes;

2 – What is stigma?

7 – What is intersectionality and how stigma impacts people differently?

13 - Self stigma and feeling like a burden

1940 Is mental health talked about now more than ever before?

26 – How do we actually look after our mental health?

3520 – Can we reframe stigma.....no?

3850 – Employment stigma when you are struggling.

4130 – Who did you first reach out to?

46 – Ask twice

53 – What if you aren’t ready to reach out?

58 – Odd blokes with odd metaphors

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This episode is all about the trials and tribulations of fundraising. It is split into 3 parts where you can jump to specific selections below based off the bookmarks.

Part 1 00:45 - 29:00 Nic and where to start when fundraising and all its trials and tribulations

Part 2 00:29-1:03 Chris and Josh run the great north run for York Mind and talk about Jorvik city

Part 3 1:03-1:32:30 Gravesy does an ironman. Matty's fat lad continues with a new task at hand.

In this special episode of chat chit, Chris talks to 3 different people who have all had their own unique experience of fundraising and the challenges of it. Fundraising can give purpose, it can create community and it can help support your charities that are dear to your heart. Listen along to hear some waffle and insight from these very special guests. Below you can find the links to all of their current efforts and how else to get involved with supporting your local York Mind.

Enjoy.

Chris and Josh run the great north run just giving page

Jorvik City Facebook page

Jorvik Cities next game vs Bishopthorpe (Sunday 31st August)

- 10am Rufforth Playing fields

- 6pm charity quiz at the Cross Keys pub

Matty graves does iron man for Mind

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After 60 episodes of chat chit where I have had had endless conversations with fantastic people, I (Chris) am leaving York Mind and therefore chat chit. In this episode I have pulled together some of my favorite conversations, some of the weirder conversations and some of my favorite pieces of advice that have been given over the years. Chat chit will still continue just without me as the host aswell as all the other parts of the project. You may also hear me with the mini series of surviving in the wild where we talk about different aspects of mental health with clinicians and proffessionals with lived experience, so tune in there.

A massive thank you to all who have featured on the podcast as it wouldnt have been possible without all those people being so honest, open and genuine about their mental health experiences. Most of all thank you to all of you who have tuned in for a heck of a lot of chit chat. I hope it has helped in one way or another and that you know after listening that whoever you are, you deserve the support and you deserve to get better. I know it doesnt feel like it all the time but it can, you just have to find the thing that works for you, and trust me i'm still working that out too.

Take care,

Chris

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