Joe Tracini

Bryony Gordon's Mad World

The Telegraph

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This episode contains discussion of suicide.

Joe Tracini is an actor, comedian and champion magician. He's also frequently suicidal. Joe suffers from borderline personality disorder and since speaking publicly about it, he's not shied away from talking about the 'unfashionable' side of mental illness. He's now written a book called '10 Things I Hate About Me: how to stay alive with a brain that's trying to kill you', which he says he wrote to save his life.

Joe joins Bryony to talk about the worst thing he's ever done and why he decided to commit it to paper, introduces Bryony to 'Mick', his name for his BPD, and asks listeners to always remember one phrase: wait for a bit.

10 Things I Hate About Me: how to stay alive with a brain that's trying to kill you, by Joe Tracini

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0:00.0	The telegraph. Podcasts.
0:06.4	High listeners, it's Louisa here, head of podcasts at the telegraph and producer of
0:11.8	Mad World. During this episode, you'll hear Brianie and her guest Joe reference
0:16.3	National Suicide Prevention Day. It was actually a few weeks ago, but we
0:20.7	delayed releasing this episode after the death of the late Queen. But of course, it
0:25.3	goes without saying that here on Mad World, every day, is Suicide Prevention Day,
0:29.5	and we still wanted to bring you this conversation because we think it's really
0:32.7	important. We hope you take something from it.
0:36.4	Hi, Brianie here. Thank you for coming to listen to this extra one-off episode of
0:41.2	Mad World to mark Wild Suicide Prevention Day. This episode does include
0:46.6	conversations about suicides. If you find that difficult, please be warned. But also,
0:52.0	I just wanted to reference you back to a podcast we did in a previous series
0:55.9	with Professor Rory O'Connor, who is an expert on Suicide Prevention. And it
1:01.0	features loads of resources that can help you feel safe to talk about this topic.
1:12.7	Wait for a bit. And that's my key to those feelings that make you want to do
1:16.3	something that's very hard to undo. Just wait for a bit.
1:20.8	And that's never going to be on an inspirational poster. Tatooists don't constantly get
1:25.7	asked to, but wait for a bit in Chinese characters. But it has been a key for me.
1:35.0	Joe Trecini is an actor, comedian and a champion magician. He is also frequently suicidal.
1:42.5	Joe suffers from borderline personality disorder. And since speaking publicly about it,
1:46.8	he's not shied away from talking about the darker sides of mental illness.
1:51.0	Now he has written a book, 10 Things I Hate About Me, How to Stay Alive,
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