Mental Health Monday

Ahead of their launch in Liverpool, the team behind James’s Place join Mick Coyle on Mental Health Monday.

Claire Milford-Haven and Nick Wentworth Stanley lost son James to suicide, and have now set up a new centre for men at risk of taking their own life. They share their emotional story with Mick, and set out their goals for the organisation.

Regular contributor Jane Boland has joined the James’s Place team too, she sets out what makes this a different option to services currently available in the NHS.

Find out more at www.JamesPlace.org.uk. Follow @JamesPlaceUK on Twitter. And check out www.hubofhope.co.uk to find mental health services near where you live.

It’s another addition of Mental Health Extra with Mick Coyle and Jake Mills.

On the agenda, we reflect on Episode 68 of Mental Health Monday with poet Liam Kennedy and Comedian Omid Djalili.

Jake shares his own experience of stand up comedy, and how it impacted his mental health.

Also, George Ezra has a new album out, and he shares his own mental health journey with Radio City Talk.

And Jake has details of the new www.chasingthestigma.co.uk website.

Follow @MrMickCoyle and @jakemills1 on Twitter.

Find Mental Health services near you by visiting www.hubofhope.co.uk

Liam Kennedy is this week’s guest on Mental Health Monday.

Liam describes himself as “in recovery” from a host of mental health battles, including PTSD and anxiety, following a traumatic event when he was starting out in a new career.

He sets out his journey, including how poetry helped him find a new path in life.

He’s now organising a mental health poetry night in Liverpool. Email [email protected] if you’re keen to take part.

In part two, comedian Omid Djalili tells Mick about the moment he came off stage in Liverpool and knew it was time to start taking mental health seriously.

He’s on to mark the start of Men’s Health Week.

Follow @MrMickCoyle on Twitter, and if you want to find mental health services in your area, visit www.hubofhope.co.uk

Mental Health Extra returns with a look back at this week’s interview with Jack Hunter-Spivey.

Jake Mills from Chasing the Stigma is in the studio with Mick Coyle, and the lads also discuss Ariana Grande’s latest interview where she talks about her anxiety and PTSD following on from the Manchester Terror Attack.

Jake also has news of @oneminutebriefs design competition for a Chasing the Stigma poster.

As heard on @RadioCityTalk on 5th June 2018.

Follow @MrMickCoyle and @JakeMills1 on twitter and find mental health services near you using www.hubofhope.co.uk

Paralympian Jack Hunter-Spivey joins Mick Coyle for an open and honest conversation about his mental health battles.

Jack’s sporting story is an inspirational one, but his mental health story is one that he’s more than keen to share. Growing up on Merseyside, he faced a number of challenges, and he tells Mick how he’s learning to overcome them.

Follow Jack on Twitter @JackHSTT, and Mick via @MrMickCoyle.

Jake Mills joined David Easson for this week's Mental Health Extra.

Jake and David looked at this week's Mental Health Monday episode 'Train, Eat, Educate' and looked at how eating well and exercising can improve your mental health.

Plus, the funding cuts facing Liverpool's mental health services and why Jake thinks it's important to look after father's mental health.

You can visit the Hub of Hope here: www.hubofhope.co.uk

Brothers Jack and Ethan Smith joined David Easson on Mental Health Monday to talk about their programme 'Train, Eat, Educate'.

They have developed a program working within schools that has triangulated 3 areas to work hand in hand - physical health, mental health and nutrition.

Plus, Wavertree MP, Luciana Berger condemned new cuts to children’s mental health services that she claims ‘threaten our children’s lives.’ Hear from the Principal of City of Liverpool College, Elaine Bowker, who told David how their dedicated NHS mental health support has been removed.

Also, find out about the upcoming 'This Dad Can' morning on the 26th May in conjunction with Liverpool Hope University.

Jake Mills and Mick Coyle get together for another edition of Mental Health Extra.

It’s Mental Health Awareness Week, and there’s a chance to re-listen to the groundbreaking Mental Health Minute, which was broadcast across 300 radio stations on Tuesday 15th May.

Also, Jake has news about how the Coronation St suicide story affected the number of people contacting the Hub of Hope.

And he tells us how he’s been hobnobbing with the stars on ITV’s Lorraine show.

Find mental Health services in your area by visiting www.hubofhope.co.uk.

As heard on Radio City Talk on 15/5/18.

It’s Mental Health Awareness Week and we’re marking it with the launch of a new campaign.

#WheresYourHeadAt? is brainchild of the Bauer Media group and MHM contributor Natasha Devon MBE.

Get all the details here: www.wheresyourheadat.org which includes a link to a petition calling for mental health first aiders to be available in all workplaces and colleges.

Also, check out the work Phil Bridges does at www.themindmap.co.uk and find out more about Clare Staley via www.counselling-directory.org.uk

If you want to find Mental health services near you, check out hubofhope.co.uk

On this week’s (belated) edition of Mental Health Monday, Mick Coyle talks to Coronation Street writer Jonathan Harvey about the tragic events unfolding in Weatherfield, and the real-life experiences that inspired them. And later, University of Liverpool Professor of Clinical Psychology Peter Kinderman joins Mick to talk about the ‘Pint of Science’ festival taking place on the 14th-16th May.

Catch Liverpool Live with Mick Coyle weekdays from 11am-3pm on Radio City Talk.

Follow @MrMickCoyle on twitter, or email [email protected]

Originally broadcast on 8th May 2018.

Produced by Lizzi Doyle.