In this episode Dee and nick are joined by Davy from See Me's social movement team. Our feature interview is from our Champion Liam, speaking about his experiences of schizophrenia and the stigma that comes with that. He also speaks about starting a choir where he can bring people together in a safe space.

The team discuss why some mental health condition still experience more stigma than others.

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This week Dee and Nick are joined by our workplace manager Patty and monitoring officer Clare. Our feature interview this week is with our Champion Gary about the huge impact he has made at his work in tackling mental health stigma and discrimination, which has led to a change in his career. He also chats about starting up his own men's peer support group, Mind the Men.

You can find out more about the journey of our social movement at https://report.seemescotland.org/.

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This week in our Journey of a Social Movement podcast we are joined by our champion Bridget, who speaks about how she has gone from never wanting to speak in public, to leading hundreds of people in community events and creating her own project to speak about mental health based on books.

This week Dee and Nick our joined by See Me social movement officer Maeve.

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TV presenter and mental health campaigner chats to See Me about her experiences of struggling with her mental health, her life, and what we can all do to help tackle stigma.

We also have a chat from the See Me team, as Dee and Nick are joined this week by Graeme.

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This week the See Me team sit down to chat about how people's mental health is being impacted during the COVID19 outbreak. They'll be chatting about highs and lows during lock down, how people are staying connected, what role tackling stigma has right now, our Pass the Badge campaign, and three of our volunteers chat about how they've been looking after their mental health over the last few weeks.

Music as always from Losing Ground.

Nick, Dee and Davey look back at last week's Time to Talk day, chatting about music at the National Portrait Gallery, finger painting at university, taking a home made jelly fish 700 miles around Scotland and why people avoid talking about mental health. We also have interviews from our volunteers Suzie and Karen on their Time to Talk Tour and Jenn, on her experiences.

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Nick, Davey and Maeve sit down to chat about the work that See Me volunteers are doing to tackle stigma in communities across Scotland. They also look back at some of their highlights from See Me over the last year, chat about Time to Talk Day, and Christmas.

See Me volunteer Tina McGuff also sits down to chat with Jenny from Breakthrough in Dundee and Anne, from the Linda Tremble Foundation.

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On our latest pod, we're looking at what is going on around the world to tackle mental health stigma and discrimination. Our staff and volunteers have been meeting up with organisations from across the globe, to see how they are trying to make a difference.

Nick and Dee are joined by a brand new See Me team member Davey, who you might recognise as the host of the Men Talk Health podcast, to chat about severe and enduring mental health problems.

Davey speaks about his experience of Borderline Personality Disorder, while Nick interviews See Me volunteer Liam Rankin about his experiences of schizophrenia, and footballer David Cox on his experiences of self harm and attempted suicide.

Dee also looks at how the media portray mental health conditions.

We are discussing some difficult topics, so please be aware, in case it contains any potential triggers for you.

We also have a brand new sound track, from the awesome, Losing Ground.

Nick and Dee from See Me chat all things mental health, fitness and tackling stigma. From chatting to people at the gym, to keeping things quiet from your football team

We also have a feature from the launch of the awesome Paths for All toolkit, which is getting walking groups talking about mental health.