Mental Health, Grief, Addiction & Recovery: A Community Q&A
5/11/20261 hr 2 min
In honour of Mental Health Awareness Week, this special compilation episode curates life-changing insights from people who have faced addiction, grief, anxiety, and personal struggle firsthand.
Featuring conversations with Tony Adams, Roy Stride, John Robins, Matt Haig, Marisa Peer, Simon Thomas, and other leading voices, this episode explores what it really means to recover, rebuild confidence, and find hope during difficult moments.
From radical honesty and vulnerability to practical tools for improving mental resilience, these stories highlight the importance of connection, self-awareness, and asking for support. Together, they offer a powerful reminder that while recovery is never easy, change is possible and healing can begin with a single conversation.
This episode covers the following themes: Mental Health, Vulnerability, Sobriety, Resilience, Honesty, and Healing.
Need Support?
Samaritans: Call 116 123 or visit samaritans.org
Narcotics Anonymous: na.org
Alcoholics Anonymous: alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk
Mental Health Mates: mentalhealthmates.co.uk
Shout: https: giveusashout.org
IAPT: https://www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/adults/nhs-talking-therapies/
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First 90 secondsMatt Willis· Host0:00
Want to know who's coming up next? Hit follow wherever you get your podcasts and you'll be the first to find out. [gentle music] All right, guys, these are the questions people don't usually ask, but probably should.
Roy Stride· Guest0:11
What's the best quote to live by for better mental health? What's the most difficult truth? Oh my God.
Matt Willis· Host0:18
What's something you wish someone had asked you when you were struggling?
Roy Stride· Guest0:23
What was the moment you realized grief was going to change you forever? I'm gonna try to do this without crying.
Matt Willis· Host0:30
Welcome back to On The Mend. It is Mental Health Awareness Week, and the theme this year is action. Now, we talk a lot about action on On The Mend, don't we? And I think one of the most important things about anything really is knowledge is all well and good, right? But unless you do action, unless you take action on that knowledge, it's kind of irrelevant, right? We've actually been a bit sneaky here because after records with guests, we've kept people back and gone a bit deeper with them, asking them questions around mental health, going a little bit deeper on everything. Now, some of the questions we're gonna ask them have actually been submitted by you. So keep an ear out to see if yours got answered. If yours does get asked and gets answered, please mention it in the comments. We'd love to hear from you, the, um, and see what you thought of the answer. And look, we've asked them to answer honestly, right? We didn't want them overthinking it. We didn't want PR answers. We just wanted them to be 100% real, and they really, really were. So what you're gonna hear today is a bit of a mix, people you'll recognize from previous episodes, and also bit of a