A New Dawn Podcasts
Mental health, anxiety and depression got you down? Podcast guests share their stories to humanize mental illness in our efforts to erase the stigma on a global scale, and improve lives. Be mindful, listen, subscribe & rate us. Sharing stories helps humanize mental health and our goal is to break the walls and barriers for people so they can unmask themselves.
Kristen Granata speaks about her experience with anxiety and depression, while growing up and offers advice to potential sufferers. She discusses her books and how her characters were intentionally given mental illness traits to help others dealing with these diseases, to cope.
Collision and Avoidance were based of her real-life experience from a traumatic divorce and the aftermath of an accident. She pours her heart out in this podcast and lets us in to share her powerful story.
Author Paul McGregor discusses the issue of suicide as it pertains to his coping with the loss of his father to suicide, in an effort to raise awareness. We open-dialogue about the needs in the world in the face of suicidal statistics, making a difference and reducing the stigma and labels.
Ask twice is a campaign, led by others, but joined by Paul McGregor. The idea is to ask twice about how someone is doing, especially if they appear to be suicidal. Most often than not, the second attempt will divulge the true feelings of someone near taking their life. This is a world-wide movement. The statistics of men that lose their lives to suicide is currently:
The annual age-adjusted suicide rate is 13.42 per 100,000individuals.
Men die by suicide 3.53x more often than women.
On average, there are 123 suicides per day.
White males accounted for 7 of 10 suicides in 2016.
Firearms account for 51% of all suicides in 2016.
The rate of suicide is highest in middle age — white men in particular.
Taken from https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/
His book, Man Up, Man Down is available on Amazon, check it. Please subscribe to the show, DM A New Dawn on Instagram to be on the show and rate us. We want to raise mental health awareness world wide. #suicide #podcast #mentalhealthawareness #worldmentalhealthday2018 #Pmcgregor #advocacy #depression #anxiety #endthestigma
Reflections from Madison, struggling with Bipolar. She talks with us about her means to cope with her mental illness, how she learned of it and offers advice to others. #bipor #coping #podcast #mentalhealthawareness #realpeople #dialoge #therapy
Our first bipolar story on air and many similarities are noted in this sharing to the suffering of Joshua, as mentioned in the first episode.
Sarah shares her experience with learning that her childhood friends suffered from Schizophrenia post horrific crime. She shared the pain and confusion she suffered of not really knowing he had this illness until he murdered someone. She couldn’t figure out why she didn’t know and why he never spoke of it with her.
You’ll learn that through the podcast, it’s possible that she was the only voice not labeling him with his disease. She treated him as a friend and didn’t judge him.
Fascinating this true story is turned into a book, Solacium. Pick it up and listen to her share her story.
