See our list of books, articles, podcasts, films and TV shows that help you manage overwhelming
feelings or mental health challenges HERE.
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share some truths about who they are, how they feel and how they’ve dealt
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What inspires you?
Here’s a list that the Tap Into Mental Health team have put together.
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Podcasts
ABC Radio National Podcast / No Feeling is Final
Podcast: The Mental Illness Happy Hour
ABC Radio National: All in the Mind: Inside talking therapy
ABC Radio National: All in the Mind: Everyone is Watching
ABC Radio National: All in the Mind: The Post Natal Mind
ABC Radio National: Depression and Your Sense of Self
ABC Radio National: Trauma, Memory and Mental Health
ABC: You Can’t Ask That: Schizophrenia
ABC: You Can't Ask That: Suicide
ABC / Conversations with Richard Fidler - An Extreme Treatment for Depression
ABC / Earshot - Living with Bipolar
Beyond Blue / Not Alone Podcast
ABC / Ladies, We Need To Talk - Anxious much?
NPR / Hidden Brain - The Empathy Gym
NPR / This American Life - Ten Sessions
On Being / The Soul in Depression
On Being / Navigating Loss without Closure
Screen and Documentary
ABC / The Show Must Go On
ABC / Changing Minds Documentary
ABC / Man Up Documentary
SBS Insight: Mental Health at Work
SBS Insight: Beating Anxiety
SBS Insight: Hoarders
SBS Insight: ECT
Articles
The Walrus / OCD is not a joke!
VICE / This Is What Developing Acute Schizophrenia Feels Like
ABC / Earworms: How we get them and how to shake them off
The Guardian / Broken Record Syndrome: My Life with Chronic Earworm
The Atlantic / Coming Out of Electroshock Therapy
The New Yorker / 17 Days on a Locked Ward
On Being / What do Do When Anxiety Overwhelms You
On Being / The Absurd Courage of Choosing to Live
Longreads / The Survivor's Edit: Memory, Truth and Living with Bipolar II
Longreads / We Need to Talk About Madness
The Cut / Do I Really Want to Hurt My Baby: Inside the Disturbing Thoughts that Haunt New Parents
Comedy
Nat's What I Reckon / Is it Sh*t Ep 3 - Mental Health/Tool
Podcast: The Hilarious World of Depression
Felicity Ward / Melbourne International Comedy Show 2016
Ricky Gervais / Afterlife
Books
Dr. Mark Cross / Anxiety - Expert Advice from a Neurotic Shrink Who's Lived with Anxiety All His Life
Sue Stuart-Smith / The Well Gardened Mind: Rediscovering Nature in the Modern World
Esme Weijun Wang / The Collected Schizophrenias
Nathan Filer / The Heartland