Scarlett Curtis

Bryony Gordon's Mad World

The Telegraph

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Writer and feminist activist Scarlett Curtis speaks to Bryony Gordon in this special World Mental Health Day edition of the show. Scarlett opens up about her struggles with PTSD following major surgery, and how both her writing and her activist work help her cope with her own mental health on a day-to-day basis. Caution advised: strong language throughout. Visit www.telegraph.co.uk/madworld for more. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	The Telegraph.
0:02.0	Podcasts.
0:10.0	So today we are recording a special one-off podcast for World Mental Health Day and today
0:19.0	on Mad World I am so thrilled to have the lovely Scarlet Curtis.
0:24.4	Welcome!
0:25.4	Hi!
0:26.4	Scarlet.
0:27.4	Yes.
0:28.4	We start each podcast as you probably know by asking how are you really right now how are you right now how are you right
0:35.6	now I'm good actually I'm a bit tired and a tiny bit all over the place but I
0:42.3	think this I don't know if you have this but this quite nice thing happens when you've been
0:46.8	Really anxious for a long time and then actually at the last few months. I've been quite anxious and down
0:53.8	Well when you're not in that place you just feel so proud of yourself and happy so like I've had a really
0:58.1	busy week and I am a bit tired but mostly I'm just like you're feeling fine like how great is that a few years ago you'd have been feeling awful
1:07.2	Yeah, that's sort of like what the relief as well, right? Because I also find that when I'm not in a bad place, it can be quite difficult to remember
1:16.3	how bad the bad place was. So it's really nice to feel that relief because it reminds you
1:21.9	to try and keep yourself well.
1:23.4	Completely and I think because I've just come out of it again I've still got that high and then once
1:28.8	you've been good for a few months it definitely fades and then you're like you forget and then yeah now the reason you're
1:36.0	all quite busy at the moment is because you have this new book out that you have
1:41.7	curated yeah I love that word. that you have curated.
1:42.8	I love that word.
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