Everybody needs a friend like Jen

I’ve been there. You might have, too. It’s the point where, as Hello You family member Jen puts it, ‘someone lets go of all the pretending’. Jen’s lifelong friend reached that point on March 6th this year. It’s what has happened - or not happened - since that Jen wants to share with you in this episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast.

Jen contacted me despite being unsure if what she had to say was interesting enough to make an episode of Hello You. She needn’t have worried. Im always interested in sharing stories of people’s experiences with mental health, and with mental health support and services, positive or otherwise.

Hence my suspicion that there are other stories out there like Jen’s. Are there other people going through similar things to Jen’s friend?

If you work in mental health, if you’re a social worker, if you work with patients presenting with MH issues in our local hospitals, I’d really like to know what you think of this episode.

Is this unusual? How has Jen’s friend fallen through the cracks?

And if you have a story, a personal experience that you’d like to share with the Hello You family, whether it’s about mental health or anything else, feel free to get in touch.

Next week, another episode of Hello You will touch on the difficulty of finding the right help when you’re going through hell.

In this case, the hell is fuelled by crystal meth. It cost James almost everything, nearly including his life. James tells his story of the catastrophic consequences of chemsex on Hello You the Shropshire podcast.