John Robins

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2,358 appearances 15 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 23 Jul

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How Do You Cope? · Kelsey Waghorn: 'There’s nothing quite like someone telling you, "you are normal"' · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

And I think you come to realize that they'd had an impact on you as well as you're digging into your PTSD later on.

Maybe you could just also tell us about those because they're pretty extraordinary too.

And you were with him through that awful moment that some people may know, which is like after an injury but before help comes.

It's an extremely traumatic experience, you know, not knowing what to do, having someone conscious in a great deal of pain.

Were you...

Did you get any kind of help or was there any suggestion of getting some sort of counselling after that?

Because that's a bit, that was like, that's big.

Did that psychological help give you any sort of basis?

I'm thinking about the incident with the tour passenger who died.

Did any of what you'd learned through that kick in at that point, or were you just sort of reacting?

was yeah an hour and a half two hours away and did you find that you had any um sort of what you would now recognize as ptsd symptoms from that incident before the eruption yeah looking back definitely um

So of the, I think, correct me if I'm wrong, but 47 people on the island, 22 unfortunately lost their lives.

And your injuries were so severe that for the first week or so of your treatment, you were in a coma.

Yeah.

And for a long period after that, you were on very, very sort of strong and disorientating pain medication.

And I was struck by how, because of that, you missed a lot of the ceremonies that we as human beings develop to process grief.

So memorials and funerals and moments of community.

How has that impacted you when the news was broken to you that you'd lost colleagues and people who you were showing around the island?

And have you carried out your own sort of ceremonies since?

In your book, you describe your rehab using a lot of transcripts of family WhatsApps and doctor's notes because obviously you're not really present to really tell that story early on in your recovery.

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