In this episode I chat with Jessica Mc Mahon current Mental Health Senator for Maynooth University in addition to completing her own degree. Jessica is also the Mental Health Society President, the founder of the Educate to Eliminate Disclosure Training and is a crisis volunteer for 50808 and Turn2me. 

We chat about what all of these roles entails and what sort of impact these roles have had on her. In addition to this Jessie talks about some of the one to one experiences she's had in these roles and what lessons she has taken from them. She talks about various techniques such as CBT ( Cognitive Behavioural Therapy ) and the like and how you can implement them into you everyday life.

Jessie also talks about her experience of being essentially in isolation for over a month in a hospital during Covid and some of the takeaways she got from the solitude. Overall this was an insightful talk into what it's like being such a key member in a society and various charities that really exposes you to some tough conversations. I'm grateful that Jessie came on and talked about her own Leaving Cert experience too and I do think this one has some gems especially around the CBT area.