Jake Humphrey
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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?
Call this number.''
It's the best thing I ever did.
Really?
I rang this number, yeah.
And it was like, you know those £1.50 a minute phone lines?
And this bloke answered and changed my life.
He went, hi.
And the voice, I can still hear his voice now.
It was the most reassuring thing I've ever heard in my life.
And I told him what was going on.
He said, this is really highly treatable.
You need to go and have some therapy.
So I've tracked down this lady called Ruth, who was incredible.
And I went in to speak to her, and two things she said to me.