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Will Young

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
199 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Get Birding
Birding for Mental Health

This is what you... What you really, really want.

Get Birding
Birding for Mental Health

I know.

Get Birding
Birding for Mental Health

But you do, you know, this is everything.

Get Birding
Birding for Mental Health

Yeah, yeah.

Get Birding
Birding for Mental Health

So it definitely helps me, that's for sure.

Get Birding
Birding for Mental Health

Yeah, it does me too.

Get Birding
Birding for Mental Health

The big thing that I've noticed in difficult times or any time I always gravitated back to gardens, always gravitated back to gardening.

Get Birding
Birding for Mental Health

I do think it's important to say this because when I was agoraphobic, I got really ill and I just couldn't go outside.

Get Birding
Birding for Mental Health

And I remember talking to this guy.

Get Birding
Birding for Mental Health

So we all know, you know, of course, nature and it was all wonderful for you.

Get Birding
Birding for Mental Health

But he was going, you know, you just go outside and you feel the plants.

Get Birding
Birding for Mental Health

I remember shouting, it's quite fucking difficult when you're fucking agoraphobic.

Get Birding
Birding for Mental Health

Because you're getting very angry, Will.

Get Birding
Birding for Mental Health

It's like, well, it's easy for you to say.

Get Birding
Birding for Mental Health

Yeah, exactly.

Get Birding
Birding for Mental Health

I was like, touch the plants.

Get Birding
Birding for Mental Health

I was like, it's hard when you don't want to go outside.

Get Birding
Birding for Mental Health

But most of the time, you know, it can.

Get Birding
Birding for Mental Health

You know, it just hit me like I never really had any difficulties and it just hit me.

Get Birding
Birding for Mental Health

just hit me that was it um but i think you know if you've got a problem you sort it out um and and i changed yeah i changed the whole garden at the treatment center did you yeah put in a compost heap yeah dug a new bed yeah made a path yeah um and it was obviously a thing in me