mental health

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Myths of Bipolar Disorder

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Me, discussing the myths of having Bipolar Disorder and the characteristics of people that suffer. There’s a huge misconception of what people go through and how they behave.

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Season 1 - Episode 17 - Nate shares his story on the recent diagnosis of bipolar disorder and PTSD from his experiences

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Nate Roeder shares his story of late onset bipolar, substance abuse and the PTSD he received after his horrific episode a few weeks back. He is also a blogger and mental health advocate.

He’s working on writing down poetry and his journey, you can find him at: https://www.instagram.com/nate.roeder/

Episode 17 - Nate's podcast story

~ A New Dawn

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Season 1 - Episode 16 - Ania's story of her mental health journey

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Ania shares why she's advocating and writing about mental illness, as a sufferer herself. As a 16 year old, she’s very open and expressive. She discusses the need for us to transform the mental institutions for patients.

You can find her on: https://www.instagram.com/anyaepul/

She advocates for mental health and here’s a post on in her bio link: https://www.change.org/p/help-make-vital-changes-in-the-mental-health-system.

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Season 1 - Episode 15 - Levi's Story of Abuse and Recovery

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Podcaster, YouTuber Levi discusses his life of sexual and alcohol abuse and the road to recovery. You are not alone.

He discusses his life of alcohol abuse to cope with the sexual abuse that happened when he was younger.

Find him: http://powerfullevib.libsyn.com/

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Season 1 - Episode 12 - Suzette Brenner - Advocate, depression, anxiety and drug addiction - 11/16/18

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Suzette, my dearest sister comes on our show to share her story of struggling with and supporting her son, my nephew, with anxiety, depression and drug addiction. Her story is extremely powerful and her emotions are true and genuine.

Drug addiction often stems from self medicating when suffering from depression, anxiety or other ailments. Her story is real, the struggle long and difficult, but not impossible. I’m a witness to the hard work, long nights and endless tears on this journey.

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Season 1 - Episode 11 - Dominic Mitges - Suicide Grief Counselor - 11/2/18

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 Dominic is our current guest on episode 11. He shares his story of being a suicide grief counselor and what led him to write self help books on the topic. Check out his story and visit his page to learn more about him.

   Book Dominic for speaking gigs, just visit his page: https://www.dominicmitges.com/

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Season 1 - Episode 10a - Nilza Elita - Author - 11/01/18

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Author Nilza Elita supports advocacy of mental health and raising awareness. She wrote about a character that suffers from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, in an effort to help normalize the two illnesses. Her book is also released this week. Go find her on Instagram and check out her book, “Dare to Imagine.”

She researched about both mental illnesses prior to and during her writing. She wanted the characteristics of her characters to be real.

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Season 1 - Episode 9 - Robbie Spencer - Nami speaker - 10/25/18

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Robbie shares his experience and thought on humanizing mental illness. He shares his story and experience speaking on the issue of mental illness to help humanize it world-wide. He himself was near taking his own life and after the news of his friends taking their lives, he devoted his cause to help raise awareness and to end the discrimination mental illness sufferers face.

Robbie is a speaker for NAMI.

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Season 1 - Episode 7 - Kristen Granata - Author - 10/11/18

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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.

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Season 1 - Episode 6 - Paul McGregor - Author and Speaker - 10/9/18

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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

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