When everything gets too much - mental health & work
Eat Sleep Work Repeat
Bruce Daisley
4.7 • 989 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
WARNING: INCLUDES THEMES OF SUICIDE AND DEPRESSION
"I walked up and down Tottenham Court Road looking for a lorry to throw myself under"
An episode going deep on mental health today. I chat to someone who has been brave enough to reveal their own breakdown and how they got to the verge of suicide. In a recent piece of research Deloitte surveyed 1000 UK employees, 55% say their colleagues are just as productive but 38% say that lockdown has had a negative impact on their wellbeing. Not long ago Chris Hayward was named the number 1 media buyer in the UK by industry bible Campaign, he was responsible for buying advertising campaigns for some of the best known brands in the world.
An unfortunate accident made Chris's health take a turn for the worse and before anyone could notice he was spiralling through exhaustion and isolation into a very dark place. In this incredibly candid conversation Chris explains how he felt, how he's learned to cope and what he would say to others in his position.
Support if you're feeling suicidal
Mental health support for young people
How to help someone else who is feeling suicidal
Introduction to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
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| 0:00.0 | This is Eat Sleep Work Repeat. I'm Bruce Dasely. It's a podcast about making work better. Thank you for listening. First thing I always |
| 0:16.5 | tell people is if you are interested in work, the changing face of work, how we can make work better, improving your team culture, |
| 0:27.6 | then the first thing I recommend is you go to the website eat sleep work repeat.com and sign up for the newsletter. |
| 0:34.8 | That's just a weekly selection of some of the best things, best articles, best |
| 0:38.9 | inspiration. Today's episode is going to be about mental health and it's going to be a first person |
| 0:45.2 | account of a mental health episode that left someone in a bad place and he's going to describe |
| 0:52.3 | his journey through that bad place and he's going to describe his journey through that bad place into the better |
| 0:56.1 | place he's at now. It's a powerful listen today. A good friend of mine mentioned in passing |
| 1:01.2 | that he'd caught up with someone, Chris Hayward, that we both knew from |
| 1:05.1 | business. Me when I used to work at YouTube and Twitter, my friend said that Chris had opened up to him |
| 1:10.9 | about a breakdown episode that he'd experienced a couple of years ago. |
| 1:15.1 | We used words like breakdown, what does they really mean? |
| 1:17.6 | Effectively he hadn't been feeling good and it had left him in a bad place mentally and in that place he'd contemplated even more |
| 1:25.8 | extreme action. Actually I think what you're going to hear is a timely |
| 1:29.3 | discussion. Chris wasn't alone in feeling like this. In a recent piece of research, Deloitte surveyed |
| 1:35.5 | a thousand British employees and 55% of them said they felt just as productive working |
| 1:42.1 | from Homer remotely, but 38% said that lockdown had had a very negative impact on their well-being. |
| 1:49.0 | And today's episode is going to be an in-depth discussion of that well-being, mental or otherwise. |
| 1:55.6 | Let me explain who Chris was. |
| 1:57.4 | When it comes to the ads that you see on TV and video websites, you may or may know that |
| 2:01.6 | there's a whole industry involved in buying those placements |
| 2:04.4 | and that work is done by media agencies whose job it is to use the swagger |
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