12 years ago, when I went on a walk around the edge of our fair island to highlight the experience of people with mental health problems, mental maladies, mental illness, however you’d like to refer to them, I encountered swathes of people who had the audacity to use the wrong language. 

Very rapidly, I discovered that this was the language they had – and that there was no ill-intent behind their words. 

Equally rapidly, I found out that if I challenged people too early on or too vociferously, I’d end up sleeping in my tent with nothing to eat. 

These are challenging times – and we really do have more similarities than differences. Yes, there are dickheads out there, but please take some time before you make irrevocable decisions about the character of another human. 

Join me and Stephen as we pick our way through that particular minefield – I’d like to think we do it pretty successfully and respectfully.

If you have any comments on this week’s episode, or any of the other 4 (yes, I know this isn’t the 6th – remind me to bore you with the details of that in a later show), or if you’d like to be guest, please get in touch.

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Until the next time…

Thanks so much for listening,

I’ve been Chris Young, and you’ve been rather fabulous

See you next Tuesday