This live panel discussion is the final, live bonus episode of this podcast series. This event is an interactive dialogue on the mental health system in Ireland facilitated by A Lust for Life - tackling stigma, shame, and structural problems in the Irish Mental Health system.

The panel discussion tackles the themes arising from the podcast series, and more, and is Chaired by podcast co-host Paula McLoughlin.

The event also features live music from Lee O’Brien from the band Winterking. 

Panellists are:

• Niall Breslin, Co-Founder, A Lust for Life

• Dr Eddie Murphy, Clinical Psychologist

• Niall Muldoon, Ombudsman for Children

• Dr Miriam Kennedy, Irish College of Psychiatrists

• Shari McDaid, Mental Health Reform

• Emilia Marchelewska, Cairde

Credits:

Artwork: Natalie Keville

Music: Larry Goldings: Radio Music Vol. 1, Migrant song

Producer: Ciara O’Connor Walsh 

This podcast is kindly supported by Revive Active, a range of life enhancing supplements that have been scientifically developed by a dedicated and passionate team of experts.

 https://reviveactive.com/

And this podcast was recorded live with thanks to Jack Power from Camden Recording Studios.

Every system is built on an invisible foundation, supported by invisible scaffolding, which is our cultural understanding of mental health. If our system isn’t fit for purpose, what culture, what beliefs are shoring up this system?

In this final episode in the six-part series of Where There’s a Will, we will try and shine a light on some of the philosophical underpinnings of our system as it stands. Because there’s a battleground – and some very different worldviews – clamouring to shape what our mental health systems globally will look like in the future.

In this episode, we speak to Professor Peter Kinderman, of the University of Liverpool; Dr Pat Bracken, psychiatrist; and Dr Terry Lynch, GP and psychotherapist; about their vision for the future of our mental health models. We also speak to Nikki, who got help for her depression through the private sector, and paints a picture of a service which puts people at the centre.

Credits:

Artwork: Natalie Keville

Music: Larry Goldings: Radio Music Vol. 1, Migrant song

Melodium: The Island, Lacrymae

John Hopkins: Insides, The Low Places

Melodium: My Mind is Falling to Pieces, A Sort of Happy Melancholy

Larry Goldings: Radio Music Vol. 1, Circus Haze

Larry Goldings: Radio Music Vol. 1, Don’t Vibe Me

Producer: Ciara O’Connor Walsh

This podcast is kindly supported by Revive Active, a range of life enhancing supplements that have been scientifically developed by a dedicated and passionate team of experts.

 https://reviveactive.com/

And this podcast was recorded in Camden Recording Studios, with thanks to Jack Power.

Children are the most precious and vulnerable members of our society. They are a blank slate – they come into the world with no hang ups, preconceptions, fears or worries. We teach them all that.

But more and more, our children are finding it hard to cope. Childhood, this precious, carefree time is becoming a tougher ground to navigate. For some it is time full of worries, stresses and fear.

In this episode, we speak to Niall Muldoon, the Ombudsman for Children, Paul Gilligan, CEO of St Patrick’s Mental Health Services, and Dominic Laydon, CEO of Aware. We also speak to two mothers, Samantha and Frances, whose children have been in the mental health system, and hear the challenges they faced in getting their children the help they needed.

Credits:

Artwork: Natalie Keville

Music: Larry Goldings: Radio Music Vol. 1, Migrant song

Rockabye Baby: Lullaby Renditions of the Smashing Pumpkins, Today

Moby: Long Ambients

Melodium: The Island, Lacrymae

Flim: Given You Nothing, Hell

Moby: Hotel Ambient, Lilly

Larry Goldings: Radio Music Vol. 1, Circus Haze

Larry Goldings: Radio Music Vol. 1, Don’t Vibe Me

Producer: Ciara O’Connor Walsh

This podcast is kindly supported by Revive Active, a range of life enhancing supplements that have been scientifically developed by a dedicated and passionate team of experts.

 https://reviveactive.com/

And this podcast was recorded in Camden Recording Studios, with thanks to Jack Power.

This episode turns the lens on ourselves: because while the mental health system needs to be fixed, we have to look at our role in that as a society. 

We need to ask ourselves: do we have an epidemic of mental health problems in Ireland? How do we contribute to poor mental health through stigma, and through creating policies and planning for a society that doesn’t put people at the centre? And we need to ask, how do we collectively build communities and systems that catch people when they fall?

In this episode, we speak to Brian Higgins, CEO of Pieta House, Shari McDaid, CEO of Mental Health Reform, Dominic Laydon, CEO of Aware; and Leon tells his personal story of facing stigma within and outside of the system.

Credits:

Artwork: Natalie Keville

Music: Larry Goldings: Radio Music Vol. 1, Migrant song

Moby: Long Ambients

Moby: Hotel Ambient, The Come Down

Moby: Hotel Ambient, Spaired Long

Alison Leyton-Brown: Music from This American Life, my shadow

Producer: Ciara O’Connor Walsh

This podcast is kindly supported by Revive Active, a range of life enhancing supplements that have been scientifically developed by a dedicated and passionate team of experts.

 https://reviveactive.com/

And this podcast was recorded in Camden Recording Studios, with thanks to Jack Power.

In this episode, we look at Irish mental health policy. We dive into its details and untangle its logic. We’ll examine our mental health system’s architectural drawings – the political drivers behind it, where it has fallen down, and what is needed now, in 2018, to create a new roadmap for Ireland’s mental health.

In this episode, we speak to Martin Rogan, CEO of Mental Health Ireland, John Saunders, CEO of Shine and Chair of the Mental Health Commission, Shari McDaid, CEO of Mental Health Reform, Dr John Hillery, President of the Irish College of Psychiatrists, Senator Joan Freeman, and Gary talks about becoming a mental health advocate after seeing the system from the inside.

Credits:

Artwork: Natalie Keville

Music: Larry Goldings: Radio Music Vol. 1, Circus Haze

Alison Leyton-Brown: Music from This American Life, Solitary

Moby: Long Ambients

Melodium: My Mind is Falling to Pieces, A Sort of Happy Melancholy

Melodium: The Island, Lacrymae

Producer: Ciara O’Connor Walsh

This podcast is kindly supported by Revive Active, a range of life enhancing supplements that have been scientifically developed by a dedicated and passionate team of experts.

 https://reviveactive.com/

And this podcast was recorded in Camden Recording Studios, with thanks to Jack Power.

In this episode, we pull back the curtain and see the inner workings of our mental health system, its origins and legacies. We’ll learn what happened when Ireland moved to close our old asylum system and create something new. And we’ll look at what we are left with now: the problems, the waiting lists and the logjams, and ask, is this fixable? And if so, how?

In this episode, we speak to Martin Rogan, CEO of Mental Health Ireland, John Saunders, CEO of Shine and Chair of the Mental Health Commission, Dr Eddie Murphy, Clinical Psychologist, Dr John Hillery, President of the Irish College of Psychiatrists, and finally, Lisa shares her experiences being bounced in and out of the system over a number of years.

Credits:

Artwork: Natalie Keville

Music: Larry Goldings: Radio Music Vol. 1, Migrant Song

Moby: Long Ambients

Alison Leyton-Brown: Music from This American Life, Solitary

Flim, Given You Nothing

Alison Leyton-Brown: Music from This American Life, My Shadow

Larry Goldings: Radio Music Vol. 1, Undercurrent

Larry Goldings: Radio Music Vol. 1, Don’t Vibe Me

Producer: Ciara O’Connor Walsh

This podcast is kindly supported by Revive Active, a range of life enhancing supplements that have been scientifically developed by a dedicated and passionate team of experts.

And this podcast was recorded in Camden Recording Studios, with thanks to Jack Power.

We so often hear the message that if you are suffering or having a hard time with your mental health, to just ask for help. The story we don’t often hear is what happens when you do.

In the first full-length episode of Where There’s A Will, co-hosts Paula and Ciara talk to Broadcast Journalist Dr Ciara Kelly about her experience as a GP in providing that first port of call for people who are worried about their mental health, and to Dr Eddie Murphy, clinical psychologist, who talks about how hard it is for people to open up, and ask for help. Also, Victoria and James tell their first-hand account of their mental health journeys.

Credits:
Artwork: Natalie Keville
Music: Larry Goldings: Radio Music Vol. 1, Migrant Song
Moby: Long Ambients
Alison Leyton-Brown: Music from This American Life, My Shadow
Larry Goldings: Radio Music Vol. 1, Undercurrent
Larry Goldings: Radio Music Vol. 1, Don’t Vibe Me
Producer: Ciara O’Connor Walsh

This podcast is kindly supported by Revive Active, a range of life enhancing supplements that have been scientifically developed by a dedicated and passionate team of experts.

This podcast was recorded in Camden Recording Studios, with thanks to Jack Power.

In this introductory episode, Paula and Ciara, co-hosts of Where There’s A Will introduce the podcast, talk about the premise behind Where There’s A Will, and what they want to achieve by dissecting our mental health system. They lay out our approach to looking at the mental health system in Ireland, and what they want to achieve.

Credits:
Artwork: Natalie Keville
Music: Larry Goldings: Radio Music Vol. 1, Migrant Song
Producer: Ciara O’Connor Walsh

This podcast is kindly supported by Revive Active, a range of life enhancing supplements that have been scientifically developed by a dedicated and passionate team of experts.

And this podcast was recorded in Camden Recording Studios, with thanks to Jack Power.

A Lust for Life presents: Where There’s A Will, a podcast series about Ireland’s mental health system. Starts Monday, 12 November 2018.

This podcast is kindly supported by Revive Active, a range of life enhancing supplements that have been scientifically developed by a dedicated and passionate team of experts.

Credits:
Artwork: Natalie Keville
Music: Alvo Noto – For 2 – T3 (for Deiter Rams)
Alvo Noto – Xerrox Vol 1 – Astoria
Producer: Ciara O’Connor Walsh