The See Me Podcast

We're really excited to bring you another Anti Stigma Summer Sessions special this week.

Our volunteers are hosting an event looking at the meaningful movies and wise words that have inspired them, or changed the way they thought about their own mental health.

Maeve, Lynn, Dee and Nick chat are also chatting about the impact of the summer sessions so far, and some of our highlights.

We'd love to hear your opinions on the podcast, let us know what you think here www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/1HDB0M/

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This week we have another Anti Stigma Summer Sessions special, as we feature one of our Live events from this month, More Than My Mental Health Poetry Edition.

We will be chatting with our volunteers about our volunteers sharing and discussing poetry, pets and our lives during lockdown. We will also be discussing the importance of seeing an entire individual and how this helps challenge the stigma around mental health problems.

Dee, Nick, Lynn and Maeve will also be catching up to discuss what has been going on over the summer at See Me, and looking at why arts are having such a big impact in changing the way people think.

We'd love to hear your opinions on the podcast, let us know what you think here www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/1HDB0M/

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This week Dee and Nick are joined by two of our youth workers Ollie and Becky to chat about mental health in schools, the stigma young people face, and how long it takes to make a bed as tall as Dee.

Our feature interview is with our youth champion Sally, speaking about her experiences of struggling with her mental health while growing up.

We'd love to hear your opinions on the podcast, let us know what you think here www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/1HDB0M/

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This week Nick and Dee are joined by our social movement manager Toni, as we chat about the impact of multiple forms of discrimination. The feature interview is with Janis from deafScotland, speaking about the impact of mental health stigma and discrimination on people affected by deafness in Scotland.

You can download a full transcript of the podcast here https://seemescotland.org/media/9879/janis-podcast-transcription.pdf

We'd love to hear your opinions on the podcast, let us know what you think here www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/1HDB0M/

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This week we have the second in a two part special, as we chat about our Anti Stigma Summer Sessions, and chat to author Spencer Mason about his book Other Tongues.

Spencer is reading extracts from the book, as well as speaking about the stigma he has faced due to his diagnosis, schizoaffective disorder.

We'd love to hear your opinions on the podcast, let us know what you think here www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/1HDB0M/

Music by Losing Ground

This week we have the first in a two part special, as we chat about our Anti Stigma Summer Sessions, and chat to author Spencer Mason about his book Other Tongues.

Spencer is reading extracts from the book, as well as speaking about the stigma he has faced due to his diagnosis, schizoaffective disorder.

We'd love to hear your opinions on the podcast, let us know what you think here www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/1HDB0M/

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This week our feature interview is with Scotland's Chief Nurse, Fiona McQueen, who chats about why she wants to end stigma for both patients, and all nurses.

Regular hosts Dee and Nick are also joined by our health care improvement advisor Tom and monitoring officer Clare to chat about issues in health care.

We'd love to hear your opinions on the podcast, let us know what you think here www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/1HDB0M/

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This week Dee and Nick are joined by See Me's health and social care improvement adviser Tom and our feature interview is with Linda Findlay, the associate medical director of NHS South Lanarkshire.

We're chatting about Linda's role in advising See Me, how national methods of tackling stigma have been rolled out in Lanarkshire and what steps we need to take in health care.

We'd love to hear your opinions on the podcast, let us know what you think here www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/1HDB0M/

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This week Dee and Nick are joined by Clare, See Me's monitoring and research officer to chat about the impact of stigma and discrimination in workplace, communities and the difference sharing your story can make.

The feature interview this week is our volunteer Susan, who has been having huge impacts in all these areas of her life. We also hear how volunteering to tackle mental health stigma led to her swimming with dolphins.

We'd love to hear your opinions on the podcast, let us know what you think here https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/1HDB0M/

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This week Dee and Nick are joined by our social movement officer Lynn, to chat about how activists are making a difference in workplaces and communities all over Scotland.

Our feature interview is from our Champion Karen, who with fellow Champion Suzie, has gone on three epic 600 mile road trips around Scotland for Time to Talk day. Hear about how they got on out on the road, as well as how Karen has been influencing workplaces, and See Me itself.

We'd love to hear your opinions on the podcast, let us know what you think here https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/1HDB0M/

Music by Losing Ground