If you or someone you care about has a mental health problem, what should you do? Let’s get practical. What do you do? Who do you need to see? How can they help you? What does it cost?

If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at [email protected] . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover.

To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au  Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au. Thanks to Future Generation Global

Many try to treat mental illness, or improve their mental health, through therapy or counselling with a psychologist, counsellor or psychiatrist. But how does therapy work. If you are going to get your knee fixed, a surgeon can tell you exactly the process they will go through, and how it will work. Let’s try and do something similar with therapy

If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at [email protected] . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover.

To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au  Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.auThanks to Future Generation Global.

What is love? The highest, most blissful state known to humans, or something close to a mental illness? What are the different types of love? Obsessive, possessive, ‘I must have her/him’  love; Infatuation and ‘in love’, which have similarities to certain kinds of mental illness. Why can love become possessive and turn ugly? What about selfless love, where you just want what is best for the other person (as long as it’s also what’s best for you).

If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at [email protected] . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover.

To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au  Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au . Thanks to Future Generation Global

Doctors who specialise in mental health, psychiatrists, are at the top of the tree when it comes to treating those with mental illness. But what can psychiatrists do, that a counsellor or psychologist can’t? When does someone experiencing a mental health issue need to see a psychiatrists, rather than a counsllor

If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at [email protected] . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover.

To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au  Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.auThanks to Future Generation Global

What is Long Covid, who is most at risk of getting it, and why are we talking about it on a podcast about mental health?

If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at [email protected] . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover.

To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au  Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au. Thanks to Future Generation Global.

Sadly, we’re all going to die. Most of us spend our lives desperately trying to ignore that uncomfortable truth, but is it a good idea to spend some time thinking and talking about death before it gets too close? If so, how do we actually do it? What about those who are dying – do they want to talk about death, or desperately avoid the subject?

If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at [email protected] . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover.

To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au  Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au. Thanks to Future Generation Global.

When threats are right in front of us, whether it be a sabre toothed tiger or Covid, we are usually pretty good at taking action. But what about threats that we know are coming, but which are a little further away, like Climate Change? Why can it seem so hard to get the same type of unified action to deal?

Is it the fault of politicians? Or of the three year electoral cycle, that incentivises short term over long term thinking? Or is it that our brains find it difficult to get beyond the immediate physical world that we can see and control?  Most importantly, what can we do about it?

If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at [email protected] . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover.

To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au  Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.auor on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au . Thanks to Future Generation Global.

In Covid lockdown there were clear rules to follow. Now, things have changed and Governments are urging us to exercise personal responsibility. The onus has now shifted to us to assess risk and make sensible decisions, even though we often lack access to the information we need to do so. How do we assess the risk of getting Covid from getting on a plane or a bus, going to the pub or letting our kids go to the movies? And how do we deal with the anxiety that making those decisions that can bring?

If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at [email protected] . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover.

To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au  Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.auor on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au . Thanks to Future Generation Global

In 2021 we recorded 49 eps of Minding Your Mind. In this ep, James and Ian run through their favourite topics and guests, and the pieces of information and advice that have stayed with them.

If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at [email protected] . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover.

To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au  Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au. Thanks to Future Generation Global.

It’s all very well to make resolutions, but how do you stop them dissolving into well intentioned nothingness? How do we turn worthy objectives into repeatable actions? How do you make something that is difficult but good for you, like exercise, a habit?

If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at [email protected] . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover.

To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au  Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au. Thanks to Future Generation Global