Jake Humphrey
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Podcast Appearances
Now imagine living with that all the time.
You have that?
I did.
24-7 and everything you see, you think, what if I just did this?
What if I just did that?
But then you think it's real.
And it feels so real that you can't imagine it isn't real.
So, and this is a long time ago where there was nothing like better help and conversations like this were not happening.
So I did not know what to do.
So for two years, I would lay in bed like sweating and my wife, girlfriend at the time, would be like, why are you soaking wet?
What's going on?
I'd be like, I don't know, I'm just a bit hot tonight, can't sleep.
And I didn't want to go, well, for the last two years, I thought I'm going to do something absolutely insanely crazy.
And I couldn't talk to anyone at work about it because it's like you can't be a kids' TV presenter and mental.
Those two things don't marry up.
So that would have cost me my job, I would have thought.
And there was nowhere to turn.
Do you know what I eventually did?
I was reading the Mirror one day on the Tube, going back from Children's BBC back to my flat, and there was like an 0898 high-rate number advert in the back for a psychologist, and it literally said, ''Are you suffering with mental health problems?