Lauren Golden
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3 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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So when it finally came...
Yeah, it was different, you know.
And I see it all the time.
Like, I work for an amazing charity in Cork called Shine a Light, Suicide and Mental Health Awareness.
And they do a lot of work around the prevention side, you know.
So we can see, and also the people who've been affected by suicide.
So we see how complex it is.
We see people really struggle to bring any kind of function into their lives for life.
years and years after it you know so I see it and I believe it I think for me I definitely had that kind of like this can happen in life but I've been really lucky and I think if anyone is listening and they wonder if they can be there like we don't talk about mental health support just because we're like this is all we can do but it really does work do you know it really does I know I would have in a different world right if I wasn't in the mental health space and I didn't have to be so engaged and if it wasn't a priority for me
I think this would have been a very different story for me you know and I'm only so blessed that I know the effects and I know what to look out for and I really hope anyone who loses someone to suicide can find those resources for themselves like shine a light now if you're in Cork offer counselling at whatever cost you can afford you know to kind of bridge that gap.
oh lovely yeah but we like we'd all do one one thing that is true for everyone is that we all need support that might be therapy for some but we all need support after something like that it's not something i'd ever think anyone can battle all on their own you know with any loss
the people who so are we speaking about the people who've lost someone or the actual person themselves I think that's where podcasts like this matter where our voices matter because you can't jump into anyone's head and I see it all the time with my clients they could sit down and be like I smiled at everyone today you know like everyone thought I was the happiest person today you know
So I see it, I suppose I'm aware of it and they'll be like, you know, I saw this thing though and it gave me a bit of hope or I've been engaging in help and this is where I get the information.
So we're not always going to be able to get the information by jumping into someone's head but this is where it really matters to speak and to normalise.
And we think we've come all the way, we haven't.
We really haven't.
We try, we definitely try but you have to think like everyone that's only hearing about mental health now really boldly in the last, what, 10 years
are adults, they've been through their formative years, their brains have been developed to still have an element of shame around it, you know.
It wasn't that long ago in Ireland you were institutionalised for your mental health, so the shame is still there, it's generational, so speaking out like this, having conversations, being so raw about it, and the vast kind of different experiences, some people could have felt how I felt in those weeks with Dan, where I did have that sense of peace and feel massive shame over it, I wasn't sad enough.
And also like that, when we speak about family roles, like
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