Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Suicides, Prevention, How Do You Become A Better Listener?
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Suicides, Prevention, How Do You Become A Better Listener?
Welcome to the Mixed Emotions Podcast with Mihir Oka
Episode: Suicides, Prevention, How Do You Become A Better Listener?
In this episode of the Mixed Emotions Podcast, Mihir Oka hosts Sachin Chitambaran, founder of Connect Hub and lead trainer at Samaritans Mumbai (Unkahee Foundation), a suicide prevention helpline.
Sachin discusses his lifelong career in mental health, emphasizing the importance of listening, breaking down biases, and understanding self-harm as more than just attention-seeking behavior.
He shares insights from his global experience, the training process for volunteers, the challenges during COVID-19, and common myths associated with mental health.
The podcast underscores the crucial need for empathy, proper training, and support systems in addressing mental health issues.
Sachin gets into the challenging topics of suicide prevention, nuances of running prevention helplines and the art of becoming a better listener.
Time Stamps
02:11 Intro
06:36 Let them Vent!
06:44 Offer a Listening Ear
10:29 Who is a Good Listener?
11:41 Are Children better Listeners?
13:04 How to Bring Self Awareness?
14:48 What does Suicide prevention Training Look Like?w
17:19 Training to prevent mental distress
18:35 How do you add Listening as a skill?
21:43 How to give feedback?
22:40 How many calls do you get?
25:19 Why is it anonymous?
28:12 What allows sharing!?
30:29 How do you select Volunteers?
32:02 Do you get Inappropriate Calls?
33:34 How do You Destress after calls
38:10 What happened in Covid?
39:39 How do you run a 24/7 Helpline
44:25 How do you Listen without Judgement?
47:05 We are not logical beings!
49:55 What is the illusion of Control?
52:27 Different forms of Self harm?
53:48 Myths
57:12 Labels of attention seeking
58:54 How do you unlearn?
01:01:35 There is no Moral High Ground!
01:02:53 We have made listening complicated
01:06:16 There is no privilege in doing this.
01:11:41 Becoming Self aware
01:12:53 Relationship building
Why This Matters:
The simple act of truly listening can be lifesaving.
This episode aims to equip our listeners with the knowledge to be there for others in their moments of greatest need.
Listener Advisory:
This episode contains discussions about suicide that some may find distressing.
If you're struggling, please reach out for help. You're not alone.
Suicide Prevention Helplines:
If you have any queries / feedback for these episodes kindly fill up the form on this link: https://forms.gle/j1N68E2exepkLqvPA
View all episodes
By Mihir OkaWelcome to the Mixed Emotions Podcast with Mihir Oka
Episode: Suicides, Prevention, How Do You Become A Better Listener?
In this episode of the Mixed Emotions Podcast, Mihir Oka hosts Sachin Chitambaran, founder of Connect Hub and lead trainer at Samaritans Mumbai (Unkahee Foundation), a suicide prevention helpline.
Sachin discusses his lifelong career in mental health, emphasizing the importance of listening, breaking down biases, and understanding self-harm as more than just attention-seeking behavior.
He shares insights from his global experience, the training process for volunteers, the challenges during COVID-19, and common myths associated with mental health.
The podcast underscores the crucial need for empathy, proper training, and support systems in addressing mental health issues.
Sachin gets into the challenging topics of suicide prevention, nuances of running prevention helplines and the art of becoming a better listener.
Time Stamps
02:11 Intro
06:36 Let them Vent!
06:44 Offer a Listening Ear
10:29 Who is a Good Listener?
11:41 Are Children better Listeners?
13:04 How to Bring Self Awareness?
14:48 What does Suicide prevention Training Look Like?w
17:19 Training to prevent mental distress
18:35 How do you add Listening as a skill?
21:43 How to give feedback?
22:40 How many calls do you get?
25:19 Why is it anonymous?
28:12 What allows sharing!?
30:29 How do you select Volunteers?
32:02 Do you get Inappropriate Calls?
33:34 How do You Destress after calls
38:10 What happened in Covid?
39:39 How do you run a 24/7 Helpline
44:25 How do you Listen without Judgement?
47:05 We are not logical beings!
49:55 What is the illusion of Control?
52:27 Different forms of Self harm?
53:48 Myths
57:12 Labels of attention seeking
58:54 How do you unlearn?
01:01:35 There is no Moral High Ground!
01:02:53 We have made listening complicated
01:06:16 There is no privilege in doing this.
01:11:41 Becoming Self aware
01:12:53 Relationship building
Why This Matters:
The simple act of truly listening can be lifesaving.
This episode aims to equip our listeners with the knowledge to be there for others in their moments of greatest need.
Listener Advisory:
This episode contains discussions about suicide that some may find distressing.
If you're struggling, please reach out for help. You're not alone.
Suicide Prevention Helplines:
If you have any queries / feedback for these episodes kindly fill up the form on this link: https://forms.gle/j1N68E2exepkLqvPA