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My Body Clock Is Broken

Episode 15 of 16

Writer Jay Griffiths, Dr Vincent Deary and Professors Louise Robinson and Matthew Smith discuss how depression affects our sense of time and the rhythms of daily life.

Jay Griffiths, Vincent Deary, Louise Robinson and Matthew Smith discuss our mental health.

How does depression affect our sense of time and the rhythms of daily life? Our body clocks have long been seen by scientists as integral to our physical and mental health - but what happens when mental illness disrupts or even stops that clock? Presenter Anne McElvoy is joined by those who have suffered depression and those who treat it - and they attempt to offer some solutions.

Jay Griffiths is the author of Tristimania: a Diary of Manic Depression and a book Pip Pip which explores attitudes to time across the world.

Doctor Vincent Deary teaches at Northumbria University, works as a clinician in the UK's first trans-diagnostic Fatigue Clinic and is the author of a trilogy about How To Live - the first of which is called How We Are.

Professor Louise Robinson is Director of Newcastle University's Institute for Ageing and Professor of Primary Care and Ageing.

Professor Matthew Smith is a New Generation Thinker from 2012 who teaches at Strathclyde University at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare.

This programme was recorded as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival in front of an audience at Sage Gateshead in 2017 and is being broadcast now as part of the 91热爆's contribution to Mental Health Awareness week.

You might be interested in Sleep;Freedom to Think from the Festival Lecturer Professor Russell Foster /programmes/b08hz9yw
and another Festival discussion from 2019 looking at how medical staff cope Should Doctors Cry ? /programmes/m000488q
and an interview with Buddhist monk and thinker Haemin Sunim about coping with the pace of life /programmes/b08jb1mp

and this collection of other programmes from the 91热爆 /programmes/p04t6bc1

Producer: Zahid Warley

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45 minutes

Credits

Role Contributor
Interviewed Guest Jay Griffiths
Interviewed Guest Vincent Deary
Interviewed Guest Louise Robinson
Interviewed Guest Matthew Smith
Presenter Anne McElvoy
Producer Zahid Warley

Broadcasts

  • Wed 12 Apr 2017 22:15
  • Thu 21 May 2020 22:00

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