I chat with Brisbane youth mental health advocate Jordan van Rusmalen and director of Strategy and Service Development at Metro South Health Wendy Hawkins about their community of the Brisbane South Primary Health Network participating in the BHP Foundation and Brain and Mind Centre program Right Care, first time, where you live. Jordan and Wendy both speak from their expertise within the community, noting the current challenges, service provisions, and where and what needs to be addressed to better support young people in intuitive and personable care. With the program’s workshop 1 down we get to open up the thoughts, feelings, and revelations in the room. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afuturemeproblem/support

I wanted to provide an update on where I have been, how I have been feeling, and why I have been AWOL. I have mentioned sleep/wake cycles before so thought I would finally chat about what it is, its nuances, and how I experience it. S --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afuturemeproblem/support

This week I spoke with Dr Haley LaMonica on the Minderoo Foundation’s project Thrive By Five. The Brain and Mind Centre has been working closely with the foundation to change the lives of so many families by employing the proverb that "it takes a village to raise a child" through evidence-based research in early childhood development. This program aims to give every child a chance to reach their full potential and thrive by age five– ensuring they meet every neurodevelopmental and emotional marker. Thrive By Five has been rolled out in 9 countries, working closely with each country's, community's, and leader's local requirements and laws to ensure the program has the best possible outcomes. This has included the translation/vehicle of the delivery of the program. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afuturemeproblem/support

On this podcast I speak about my experience taking ketamine—don’t fret, in a clinical setting—for my mental health. I try to briefly explain how it works, why I am doing it, and my experience. It has been an episode I have recorded many times as I have wanted to get it right. However, I figured that this episode is an opener; therefore I am open to record and discuss more. Biting the bullet, here it is. Also, check my Instagram, @samueljhockey, to see a carousel of me on it—just for fun. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afuturemeproblem/support

This week on the pod, I got to sit down with Brain and Mind Centre’s new Youth Lived Experience Research Stream’s clinical head, Dr Sarah McKenna. Sarah is a clinical psychologist interested in the dynamics of the parent-young person relationship and how qual. and quant. data can shed light onto the nuances within those relationships and further inform the young person’s developmental outcomes. Sarah breaks down the new stream of research, its context with the broader Brain and Mind Centre Youth Mental Health Technology Team, and why it’s needed now. Mentioned links: Youth Mental Health and Technology Team; Circadian rhythm sleep-wake disturbances and depression in young people: implications for prevention and early intervention. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afuturemeproblem/support

I 👏🏻 AM 👏🏻 BACK 👏🏻 The second half of 2022 was equal parts a touch-and-go shit show, an absolute privilege, and a great teacher. When it comes down to it, I overcommitted, and as a result, I became quite unwell, let people/ teams down, and learned a lot about not being an island (constant journey). In this new first episode of 2023, I briefly go over the last 6–8 months, the new year ahead, and a slight change in rhythm. I am excited to reintroduce the podcast under the new title (I know, again!!) of a future me problem. A quintessential me term vis-a-vis overcommitting, saying yes and working out later—think Confessions of a Shopaholic scene, ‘good angles on APRs’, knowing I am going to do it but don’t have the space to right now, and finally working on this currently to solve a future me problem—early interventions. I’m keen to hear your feedback, topics you want me to discuss, and people you want me to chat to. DM me or email the pod at [email protected]. Tom from Podlike is continuing his editing prowess, proud to have my brother’s band’s music mixed in, and the exciting new addition of Carolyn’s illustrations 🤘🏻. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afuturemeproblem/support

Rounding off this year we have an episode from University of Sydney’s research program, right care first time where you live, funded by the BHP Foundation. We are checking back in with ACT Health– chatting with Joey Brogden (mental health advocate) and Sam Huntley (BMC). These two women have worked hard to change the inclusion narrative of health service design and delivery within ACT Health. I get to ask what have been the challenges, successes, and the learnings from being a research program site. EDITING | Podlike MUSIC | Sampson --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afuturemeproblem/support

This episode is brought to you by The University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Centre (BMC). I get the great pleasure of sitting down with two of BMC’s lived experience working group members (LEWG) to chat about the role lived experience members have played in the history of mental health understanding – going right back to ancient Egypt!! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afuturemeproblem/support

This week I was joined by the world's first Minister for Loneliness Tracey Crouch. In 2018 the UK announced a new ministerial position within, then Prime Minister, Theresa May's cabinet; this was the result of late Labor MP, Jo Cox's extensive advocation to address the threat their nation was facing in loneliness. In 2016 Jo Cox was horrifically murdered in a shooting and stabbing in Birstall, UK. Tracey Crouch was elected to carry this portfolio through, on behalf of her late friend and colleague. We clearly define loneliness and it's independent relationship to mental ill-health; noting that each have the ability to be the antithesis for the other. MUSIC | Sampson EDITING | Podlike --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afuturemeproblem/support

If you haven't had IG's algorithm suggest the account @sitwithwhit I suggest you write a letter. The woman behind, and in-front I guess, of this account is Dr Whitney Goodman. Whitney is a therapist who uses her platform to help us understand and identify things that impact our mental health, often when we don’t even realise it. The concept I got to dive into with Whitney was toxic positivity. Whitney has written the book titled 'Toxic Positivity'. This book was birthed during COVID and is the culmination of her years as a therapist and what she has personally witnessed on social media in regard to toxic language, inspiration quotes, greener grass, and the constant search for good vibes only. Whitney walks us through the understanding, identification, and impact toxic positivity can have on not just our own mental health and self-esteem, but that of those around us. MUSIC | Sampson EDITING | Podlike --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/afuturemeproblem/support