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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In some ways, the moment that defines your story wasn't actually the moment that defines your story.
If you see what I mean, it was kind of representative of many years of mental ill health.
So could you maybe tell us when you first remember your experience of your emotions or thoughts diverging from what we might call the sort of normal spectrum of mental health?
And we'll maybe come on to...
the sort of story of your diagnosis history later on, because it says quite a lot about how the NHS tries to deal or not deal with people who have sort of complicated mental health problems.
But currently, the diagnosis that seems to have settled and fit for you is schizoaffective disorder.
Which you described as the divorced child of schizophrenia and bipolar.
Could you describe how those two
children like interact and how they manifest themselves in, in, in you.
Yeah.
You described the progression of it.
Brilliantly.
And is there something in terms of like medication or self-care that triggers the beginning of that intensifying or is it almost sort of completely like a season arriving?
And how did alcohol and substances interact with those states and those seasons of mental states that you've described?
Were you able to know what was sort of you, what was being sort of created within you in your sort of bloodstream, in your chemicals, in your sort of balance and what was the result of a drug or a drink?
Do you think it's possible to evaluate anyone's mental health if they're using alcohol and drugs regularly?
Well, let's come on to your sort of experience with the NHS.
You talked about how you went to your GP.
And basically the message you got was, your best chance for getting help is if this gets so bad that you get sectioned.
And they said, if you're lucky, this is what will happen.
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