The Mental Health Revolution Podcast

By Kate Ashley-Norman

With work taking up so much of our time and energy, mental wellbeing is becoming a key area for development and investment in the drive for maximising profitability. This podcast helps to clarify i

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November 12, 2018Interview with Dr. Lucy Johnstone – Clinical Psychologist & Independent Trainer
What are spreading everywhere, especially online, are just scratches on the surface of what the real deal is with mental health.
In this episode of The Mental Health Revolution Podcast, Kate chats with Dr. Lucy Johnstone, a consultant clinical psychologist, to give everyone a new perspective on mental illnesses. Discover today what has changed since 1989 in the field of psychiatry, why medications should just be an ‘add-on’ solution to mental illnesses, and what’s the edge of Power Threat Meaning Framework to existing diagnostic manuals. Dr. Lucy also answers questions on issues of downgrading mental illnesses and the cultural differences in dealing with mental distress. Learn also why healthy physical health can better your mental health.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Positive changes since 1989
It has become much more mainstream to criticize the medical model of mental distress
'Survivor movement' has grown strongly in numbers
Powerful criticisms are coming from within the field of psychiatry.
DSM 5 came out in 2013. WHO also release a similar diagnostic manual called ICD. The problem with these diagnostic manuals is not actually recognizing the role cultural differences play.
Your mental health is gonna improve if your physical health is better.
Lucy together with other senior psychologists spent five years developing the Power Threat Meaning Framework. People will have more of a narrative understanding rather than diagnostic understanding. What’s good about it is it includes social factors and social determinants.
What directed her to the field of psychology? She had struggles understanding herself when she was young so she used a lot of time reading psychology books. It then became a long-term interest.
There is no evidence for genetic vulnerability. What we have are temperamental differences. Sensitivity also is not a problem but the environment.
The important thing about therapy is feeling that you're understood, listened to, and accepted.
BEST MOMENTS
"The very least you could do is tell the people the story and the make their own decisions."
"As a psychologist, I would say what often makes a difference is what personal meaning you attach to your experiences. All the other factors are filtered through and shaped by personal meaning."
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Users and Abusers of Psychiatry: A Critical Look at Psychiatric Practice by Lucy Johnstone
Link for Power Threat Meaning Framework resources: https://www.bps.org.uk/news-and-policy/introducing-power-threat-meaning-framework
WHO International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
NHS
ABOUT THE HOST
Kate Ashley-Norman is creator of Positive Mind Management, the host of The Mental Health Revolution podcast, and a passionate speaker and trainer about our emotional wellbeing. She is seeking to change the nature and tone of the conversation around mental health for business owners, their workplaces and ultimately in their personal lives.
Kate has spent the last 25+ years running her own businesses, initially working running a six figure PR consultancy agency, then building a multi-million pound international property portfolio. Latterly she has dedicated her time to studying emotional mastery and positive psychology, while bringing up four children, and has used her experience and knowledge to create the Positive Mind Management programme specifically for entrepreneurs and small businesses.
The knowledge Kate has collated will help you to not only better understand your emotions, it will help you both improve it, and supercharge it during those more challenging times when emotional wellbeing can be compromised. Fear, procrastination, overwhelm, powerlessness, self worth – empire building is a hugely challenging process in its own right. The more power you hold within your own emotions, the more you can harness the power of those emotions, good and bad, to the benefit of your business and life in general.
Hugely practical and applicable, this revolutionary approach to mental health is putting the power back into the hands of each and every individual.
ABOUT THE GUEST
Dr. Lucy Johnstone is a consultant clinical psychologist. She is the author of Users and Abusers of Psychiatry: A Critical Look at Psychiatric Practice and the co-editor of Formulation in Psychology and Psychotherapy: Making Sense of People’s Problems. She is also the former Programme Director of the Bristol Clinical Psychology.
CONTACT METHOD
Kate Ashley-Norman
You can support The Mental Health Revolution, and contribute to the conversation in the following closed Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/238516643507943/
You can search Kate Ashley-Norman on any of these platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
You can also support the movement through our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=12852819
Kate can be contacted anytime via her email: [email protected]
Lucy Johnstone
Lucy’s Twitter
Lucy’s LinkedIn

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November 12, 2018Why Mental Health is Not a Brain Disorder
Do you believe that mental health issues are caused by brain chemical imbalance? Listen to today’s episode of The Mental Health Revolution Podcast because that’s what is Kate gonna discuss and more. Kate says that mental health as a brain disease is just a marketing ploy by the pharmaceutical companies. They’re selling drugs that do not cure mental illnesses but only gives relief. Another hot take from her is that the proliferation of mental disorders is happening because of these pharmaceutical companies. Listen as she presents facts and statistics to open your eyes to these controversies. There’s a completely better solution in handling mental health issues and Kate is going to share how you could build your own solid foundation to improve yourself.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Fact #1: There is no scientific evidence that mental illness is a brain disease.
Fact #2: There is no evidence that depression or similar is caused by any chemical imbalance to the brain
Fact #3: There is no evidence that antidepressant is rebalancing at all.
The proliferation of disorders increased over centuries. Kate believes that it is driven by pharmaceutical companies. Pharma companies spend billions of dollars before putting out a drug in the market. So, they market it massively. but drugs for mental illnesses don't seem to cure them. they're just used to relieve symptoms.
The advisory panel for DSM is financially tied with pharmaceutical companies. 76% of them had research funding and 40% had consulting that came from the pharmaceutical industries.
Why should we care if people are finding relief from medications?
"I care because it's not reality. We're not giving them a good solid foundation to build on. We're making them reliant on something which is feeding another belief system that they're ill..."
Educate people about improving their mental health. Educate them about their psychological foundations so they understand belief systems, self-esteem, control, etc.
Take a preventative approach to reduce mental distress. We can never get rid of it because there will be different degrees of mental distress.
BEST MOMENTS
"If you're somebody who is suffering from some kind of mental distress, I completely want you to understand that I want you to feel more empowered about what you're going through."
"It's to build a much stronger belief system so you can take control of your thoughts, emotions and reactions."
"So what we've been seeing over the last few decades is that we've been medicalising normal human distress."
"When the whole world is talking about mental health, there is no better time than now to start that conversation with everybody that you know."
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Link to BBC story about prayer camps in Ghana - https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-45800263/ghana-prayer-camps-chain-residents-with-mental-health-problems
Research paper relating to DSM panel ties to the pharmaceutical industry - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7143549_Financial_Ties_between_DSM-IV_Panel_Members_and_the_Pharmaceutical_Industry
ABOUT THE HOST
Kate Ashley-Norman is creator of Positive Mind Management, the host of The Mental Health Revolution podcast, and a passionate speaker and trainer about our emotional wellbeing. She is seeking to change the nature and tone of the conversation around mental health for business owners, their workplaces and ultimately in their personal lives.
Kate has spent the last 25+ years running her own businesses, initially working running a six figure PR consultancy agency, then building a multi-million pound international property portfolio. Latterly she has dedicated her time to studying emotional mastery and positive psychology, while bringing up four children, and has used her experience and knowledge to create the Positive Mind Management programme specifically for entrepreneurs and small businesses.
The knowledge Kate has collated will help you to not only better understand your emotions, it will help you both improve it, and supercharge it during those more challenging times when emotional wellbeing can be compromised. Fear, procrastination, overwhelm, powerlessness, self worth – empire building is a hugely challenging process in its own right. The more power you hold within your own emotions, the more you can harness the power of those emotions, good and bad, to the benefit of your business and life in general.
Hugely practical and applicable, this revolutionary approach to mental health is putting the power back into the hands of each and every individual.
CONTACT METHOD
You can support The Mental Health Revolution, and contribute to the conversation in the following closed Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/238516643507943/
You can search Kate Ashley-Norman on any of these platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
You can also support the movement through our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=12852819
Kate can be contacted anytime via her email: [email protected]
This show was brought to you by Progressive Media
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November 12, 2018With Increasing Medicalisation of Mental Health, we Now Need a Revolution
Welcome to the first ever episode of The Mental Health Revolution! It’s time to meet your host, Kate Ashley-Norman and know more about what you should be excited for in the upcoming episodes.
Discover how Kate is starting a revolution to change the way mental health is perceived nowadays through this podcast. She’s eager to start the REAL discussion on mental health and to put back the control of mental health in every individual’s hand. The problem is: everybody’s talking about it but the solutions presented in front of us (i.e. antidepressants) are not really doing anything. Kate says instead of improving mental health, it’s worsening it. It’s time to destigmatise it, demystify it, and de-medicalise it.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Kate specializes in coaching about mental health. She has no formal medical background about it but she wants to be at the forefront of destigmatizing and demystifying mental health.
There's a huge number of minors and teenagers who are suffering from depression or anxiety. Suicide rates are high at the moment. Suicide is a big killer of men ages 20-49.
People who are suffering from mental health issues might be scared of disclosing their condition with their employers.
NHS gives out free checkups and medications for people with mental health issues. But the problem with it is they're just 'tickling the surface' and prolongs the issues with people.
Just like physical health, mental health can be improved by having a healthy lifestyle. Do little things day by day. You can be happy by achieving your goals little by little.
There will be interesting discussions about mental health with guests in the podcast. Guests can be medical experts in the field or someone who wants to share their stories.
BEST MOMENTS
"I want this podcast to really question how we deal with mental health. I want it to be a commonsensical deep dive."
"There's a huge outcry but nobody's understanding what it is driving these people doing what they're doing."
"It's not about what happens in your life. It about how you respond to what happens in your life."
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Mental Health Revolution Facebook Group
NHS
ABOUT THE HOST
Kate Ashley-Norman is creator of Positive Mind Management, the host of The Mental Health Revolution podcast, and a passionate speaker and trainer about our emotional wellbeing. She is seeking to change the nature and tone of the conversation around mental health for business owners, their workplaces and ultimately in their personal lives.
Kate has spent the last 25+ years running her own businesses, initially working running a six figure PR consultancy agency, then building a multi-million pound international property portfolio. Latterly she has dedicated her time to studying emotional mastery and positive psychology, while bringing up four children, and has used her experience and knowledge to create the Positive Mind Management programme specifically for entrepreneurs and small businesses.
The knowledge Kate has collated will help you to not only better understand your emotions, it will help you both improve it, and supercharge it during those more challenging times when emotional wellbeing can be compromised. Fear, procrastination, overwhelm, powerlessness, self worth – empire building is a hugely challenging process in its own right. The more power you hold within your own emotions, the more you can harness the power of those emotions, good and bad, to the benefit of your business and life in general.
Hugely practical and applicable, this revolutionary approach to mental health is putting the power back into the hands of each and every individual.
CONTACT METHOD
You can support The Mental Health Revolution, and contribute to the conversation in the following closed Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/238516643507943/
You can search Kate Ashley-Norman on any of these platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
You can also support the movement through our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=12852819
Kate can be contacted anytime via her email: [email protected]
This show was brought to you by Progressive Media
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FAQs about The Mental Health Revolution Podcast:

How many episodes does The Mental Health Revolution Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 43 episodes available.