It's All In Your Head MedCircle

S2 EP #7: Claire Eastham is a Manchester-based author, award-winning mental health blogger, campaigner and keynote speaker who was diagnosed with Social Anxiety Disorder after suffering excruciating physical symptoms that forced her to leave a business meeting. Claire's first book detailing her personal experience living with an anxiety disorder titled  We’re All Mad Here: The No-Nonsense Guide to Living with Social Anxiety sold out its entire first print run in just five days and was selected for Reading Well Books on Prescription in 2018. Claire is an ambassador for the mental health research charity, MQ, and has regularly appeared on TV and radio, including appearances on This Morning, BBC Breakfast, and across BBC Radio. Her latest book about her experience is titled  F**k, I think I’m Dying: How I Learned to Live with Panic.



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Claire's Book, We're All Mad Here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Were-All-Mad-Here-No-Nonsense/dp/1785920820/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1683113184&refinements=p_27%3AClaire+Eastham&s=books&sr=1-2

Claire's Book, F**K, I Think I'm Dying: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/440898/fk-i-think-im-dying-by-claire-eastham/9781473575370

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S2 EP #6: Timothy Denevi grew up with ADHD and was among the first generation of boys prescribed medication for this disorder in the 1980s.  Upon having an adverse reaction to the medication he was prescribed for ADHD, as a child he began the  journey to finding the right treatment. As an adult, Tim wrote a book about his experience titled “Hyper: A Personal History of ADHD”, which is a remarkable book both for its sensitive portrait of a child’s experience, as well as for its thorough exploration of a remarkably complex and controversial mental condition and its treatment. In this conversation, Timothy shares how his life has been impacted by ADHD  and how he eventually found healing through individualized treatment and painstaking research.



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Timothy's Memoir: http://www.timdenevi.com/hyper

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S2 EP #5: Amanda Stern grew up with an undiagnosed panic disorder and was plagued with fear that her friends and family would be taken from her or die. In this conversation, Amanda shares how her life has been impacted by panic disorder  and how she eventually found healing through therapy. She went on to write a memoir, Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life.



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Amanda's Memoir: https://www.amazon.com/Little-Panic-Dispatches-Anxious-Life/dp/1538711923

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S2 EP #4: Stephanie Foo was diagnosed with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder,, also known as  CPTSD, after she began struggling with panic attacks at work every morning. Throughout childhood, she was  both  physically and  verbally abused,  neglected and even abandoned as a teenager. In this conversation, Stephanie shares how her life has been impacted by this CPTSD  and how she eventually found healing through education,  different forms of therapy and meeting others who also suffered from CPTSD. She went on to write a New York Times bestseller titled What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma.



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Stephanie's Memoir: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/658389/what-my-bones-know-by-stephanie-foo/

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S2 EP #3: Allison Britz developed Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, also known as OCD,  upon having a nightmare that she was diagnosed with brain cancer. She began to do everything she could to stop the cancer in her dream from becoming a reality by avoiding certain objects, food and clothing. It got to the point where she had barely any “safe” clothes to wear and weighed 90 pounds. In this conversation, Allison shares what it was like to live with OCD and the different therapies she tried to better understand how these obsessions developed and how to better control the compulsions.



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Allison's Memoir: https://www.amazon.com/Obsessed-Memoir-My-Life-OCD/dp/1481489186

Learn more about Allison and follow her on social media: https://instagram.com/notesfromallison

S2 EP #2: MedCircle host, Kyle Kittleson, was diagnosed with Depression at nine years old and was immediately entered into treatment. Not long after Kyle sought treatment for his Depression, he realized that he was a gay man and tried to cover it up for over a decade. In this conversation, Kyle shares how he felt living with Depression at a much younger age than normally diagnosed, owning his sexuality and how he maintains his mental health today.



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