![]() ![]() You can find me on Twitter on Facebook, or you can email me at I'd love my listener to have the opportunity to walk a mile in your shoes. If liking and subscribing's your kind of thing, then I'd really appreciate your support. If you've enjoyed this episode, please help yourself to the others, I'm pretty sure we've got something for everyone. Huge thanks to Neil.for being Neil, he was a delight to interview, and I'm sure his open, honest, frank, irreverent and occasionally humorous approach to his experience of cancer will shed some light on this horrible disease for many of you. You can find more information about oesophageal cancer, here Welcome back to the walk a mile in my shoes podcast! In this episode, Neil talks openly, honestly and frankly about his experience of oesophageal cancer and the effects the disease has had on his life.ĭuring the interview he talks about the massively positive support he received from Harbour Cancer Support - they really sound like a fine bunch of folk. I’ll also be telling you all about a whole new project I’ll be launching over the next couple of months…stay tuned… In other news, I’ve got solo episode coming up soon, especially interesting if you’d like to hear a bit about where I vanished off to. Thanks to you too for coming along for the ride – you can follow me on Twitter or, if Facebook’s more your thing – you’ll find our lovely group here Remember, I’ve put links to her Just Giving and blog pages in the blurb. Huge thanks to Sophie for coming on the show – it was an absolute delight talking with her. I’ve got to say, this, for me, was the greatest start to a podcast conversation ever…but sadly, you’ll never get to hear that, because I forgot to press record! In my defence, it was the hottest day of the year…and, I am an arse…I’m sure you’ll agree we more than made up for that missing 8 minutes though… She tells us about her experience of the mental health system – and how that drove her to set up a just giving page to raise money to give little bags of care – toiletries, pyjamas and other bits and bobs – to people with mental ill health as they try to navigate hospital admission, often via accident and emergency. ![]() Yeah, you’re right, that’s quite enough of that – welcome to the walk a mile in my shoes podcast – I’m your host, Chris Young, and in this episode, I’ll be speaking with the delightful Sophie about a whole range of stuff…from her career as a social worker working in child protection, her diagnosis and experience of bipolar and what it felt like when someone ‘outed’ her and her condition to her manager. ![]() Welcome back to you, my second favourite listener…I’m trying to inject a bit of competition in here…just to make you, the walkamilers, a bit more edgy… HI Gang! Did you miss me? What d’you mean who am I? Who are you? See…how’d you like them er…lemons…? Until the next time, thank you so much for listening, If you're listening on apple podcasts, please give us a like, a follow and a comment - it really helps to get more folk involved in the conversation. You can find me on Twitter or at our lovely Facebook group hereįeel free to email me at really love to hear what you think of Joey's episode. Instagram where he's known as therealjoeymarino Here, as promised, are his social media links Towards the end of this episode, Joey performs the scene from the Elephant man, where John Merrick declared, 'I am not an animal,' It was profound, especially given its incredibly relatable juxtaposition of Joey's life. In this episode he stresses the importance of informed consent when taking psychiatric medication, and how it is the duty of the prescribing physician to inform their patients about the negative as well as the desired effects of those meds. Actor Joey Marino, from the incredibly popular American TV show ER, talks about how he developed tardive dyskinesia after being prescribed the antipsychotic medication Seroquel, otherwise known as quetiapine, for anxiety. ![]()
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