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Dr Alex George

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“Rate with COVID is around 1%. So I'm not want to sensationalize that element, but I am seeing that percentage of people who are the sickest who are in the hospital. So it's obviously important to say that there are very many that 30% don't even have any symptoms. But I think it's very important for people to realize that there is very much two ends of that spectrum. And at the very sharp end, if you're a very sharp end of that spectrum, then they can be very serious.”
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“most of the time A and E, the beauty of A and E is the vast majority of the time we get it right, vast majority of the time people survive. We make people better, and that's we're very fortunate actually, most of the time we spend our time making people better and it works. But the pandemic is very hard. But even within that, of course, there's death. I mean, you know, I don't know the actual exact figures, but every day or so, every day someone will die in the AE. multiple times a day people will die across the hospital that is unfortunately the reality of the job that we do so we do get used to that but i think in the pandemic it's the volume of that the amount of death we saw was just exponential so you kind of you balance in your head because you think well 95 of the time this is a good outcome we do good and we help people and people get better but in the pandemic there was a swinging of that balance to being like oh my gosh i'm trying my best for all these patients but a lot of people aren't making it a very very important thing to say here is obviously talk i am working in a position where i'm the recess department of a very busy hospital in a in london we know that the material”
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“This is real, you know, is there some kind of dream nightmare, I guess? And we had intricate him. He did survive, but he was very sick. And I think he was survived by a hair strands kind of width from being from death, I would say. Very, very unbalanced intensive care for a long period of time, but he did make it through. But he could easily have not, and I think witnessing those kind of events, and I've witnessed many other times with even younger people who didn't make it through That is very tough. That's very difficult. So when I go home at the end of that shift, I'm like, well, would he make it, will he not? Very, very hard.”
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“We're going to get the iPad because we had iPad there for people to talk to their family before we did these things because we knew that roughly if you get an intubate it's about 50 50-ish, something like that of survival. It depends on the patient. There's a lot of different things but the general rough kind of thing is that we said look you're going to have to say potentially say goodbye because we don't know what's going to happen and he was very unwell but he couldn't, you know, he's still in his suit at the time when he came in and he just couldn't believe it was happening and it was that disbelief. He was like, am I really that sick? And I explained everything as to why. And it was really, really hard watching someone going, how has this happened to me? And you have this moment of like,”
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“Very tough. And I think one of the things that were hardest was people couldn't believe it had happened to them. I saw I've got to be careful, of course, a confidentiality, but I saw a gentleman who came in who was a professional, middle-aged man, was otherwise pretty well, had a family. A few days later he was fine and all of a sudden just deteriorated it with his cough and breathlessness by the time he came to us, his auction levels were incredibly low. He required a really high level of oxygenation, even with the high level of oxygen we give through a mask. It was clear that he actually needed to have two passed down to take over his breathing because even with a high level of oxygenation and actually the pressurized mask we were using, we still weren't achieving adequate levels of blood saturations of oxygen. So it was not survivable to continue in that way. And we had to have a conversation with him. And I had to say to him, look, you know, we are going to have to intubate you. We're going to have to put you in induced coma. We're going to have to put you doing a throat. We're going to have to take over your breathing. You need to ring your fingers.”
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“Ambulances lining up, so blue light ambulances, so they're the ones bringing the sickest patients outside and you're looking at this situation going, we're at capacity. No, actually, we've gone over the capacity. We don't have any more capacity. So what do we do? That is very frightening, not just in terms of space, but in terms of, like, I'm looking out of this patient, this patient, this patient, this patient, this patient. They're all really sick. They all actually need one-to-one time. How do we manage that situation? And that is very, very difficult. And a lot of people in the NHS face that across the country. In parts of, for example, St. Thomas's, they had one nurse for every five patients at some points during the pandemic in intensive care. It should be one-to-one intensive care.”
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“Worst day throughout the pandemic. I think there was a day where we were, I was in the recess that day. So we were kind of rotating different parts of departments. So I was in the recess department. And I was in there with a couple of the doctors and other nurses. And we were pretty much at capacity. So within our recess department, we have like, what, five, six, seven or eight beds, seven or eight beds in that recess area. Bearing in mind these patients require a huge amount of care. I mean, these are, you know, trying to be near enough to one-to-one as we can to look after them because they're very unwell. They're very sick. And we're at that point of day we had two patients per bay. So we had to put two beds in each bay because we were absolutely at capacity. And in fact, we're at the point where we're having to put some almost in the corridor area of the research. So it's within one big room, big boxed room, but not in the bay. And that is very scary. And then we're also having that day. I remember we had...”
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“situation, but it was one that we were anticipating of things and yet better. So it was pretty tough in that sense. The good side of being an ANE throughout the pandemic was that I wasn't on my own. I was living my own in London. I would have otherwise been at home the whole time. I felt a sense of purpose going there. I felt that I was able to do something in that time and I was surrounded by my friends. So it's an odd catch-22 of like the worst but also kind of helps.”
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“Just after he was January, I worked Christmas day and then it was a few days after that. I think it was just after New Year's in January. We had no ventilators left in the hospital. We managed to get hold of some literally the point where we're like, oh my God, we don't have any more. So thank God that no one went without, but it was really at that point where we're like, wow, we're like resource-wise running out here because I don't know if you remember that declared a major incident in London. And what that really means is that for healthcare professionals, for doctors, for heads of departments, for heads of hospitals, they are then in a position where they might have to make decisions about resources, i.e. do we give a ventilator to you or you? That is ultimately what we're saying is that the pressure and the weight on the NHS is at the point where we might have to decide you're having this ventilator, you're not. Very fortunately, certainly when I was in there, we didn't have that situation. I wasn't faced with that.”
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“You, then obviously that's what we do. But there's certain decisions where, for example, in the COVID, in the pandemic, we had someone with dementia who wasn't aware where they were at the kind of end of their life. They've got this horrible illness, should we be putting them in intensive care? And we have to make those very difficult decisions. Now, important to say that going to intensive care, not going to intensify care doesn't mean that you're not going to get treatment. We still, oxygen, the lines, antibiotics, all these things, we still do that. But is it kind to put tubes down people's airways? It's very difficult, though, to make all those kind of decisions, and it's made between intensive care department, they need department. But these are really tough decisions to make. And even people, younger people in these situations that we had to make those difficult decisions with. And, you know, I think that was very, very hard. I think we were at a point, particularly at the start of the pandemic, and also at Christmas, where we were pretty much nearing being overwhelmed. You know, I remember this Christmas.”
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“if they are very unbalanced with an illness, we have to make decision about whether actually it is kind and correct to put them in intensive care with all the invasive wires, the lines we put into central arteries, put in the tube down the airway. What are we doing that for? Is that going to likely benefit that patient and lead to a good outcome? And what we want is to treat people in a way that's kind and that we can we know that what we're doing is justified for that patient, because that patient at the centre of that approach. So we have to always make decisions about that. If a young person and it's not very important to say age is not the factor that we make that decision based on being fragile and frail physically, which might be associated with age is something we think about but not age in itself but if you are in your physical health young fit and healthy and we think that change intensive care and do all this stuff is likely to lead to a good outcome”
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“You know, when we see a really unwild patient, and recess is the place we see the sickest patients in hospital, generally most departments will have minors, majors and recess. Recess is the place that you are, that if you're really unwell, and if we don't do something, there's a higher chance that you're going to die have serious outcomes, right? So if you're in there, generally you're pretty and well. And when we see a patient even pre-COVID times, we have to make a decision about what we're going to do and how we're the best places for their treatment and what the ceiling of treatment is as well. And what I mean by that is, for example, so we're seeing a patient in recess, you know, for example, if we're seeing a patient that has loads of comorbidities, have lots of high burden of illness, it could be diabetes, heart disease, they might have end stage kind of dementia, they might not be aware of where they are, might be very elderly, very frail.”
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“Yeah, it's odd because it was good and bad all at once and I clearly have to justify why I'm saying it's the element of good to it. The bad part was obviously everything we saw and I think Lewisham Hospital was one of the hardest hit hospitals. I mean the amount of death that we saw was huge and I saw so much death every day. Young people as well as old and I think it was a real, I don't know, it was a real kind of wow this is happening, you know, feeling as we saw everything getting so busy the recess department being full of patients, having to make very difficult decisions about situations and patients individually and also how to manage the hospital in terms of capacity and ventilating difficulties.”
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“And reinforce, yeah, exactly. And reinforcing that cycle. So by changing and going into schools and going, well, actually, why does a bot, why do you need to look like that to be happy? Does that actually make you happy looking like that? Is that something to aim for and changing that? I think that is how we'll change what we see on screen”
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“We have to change what people want, and then the stuff on TV is like exactly you said, it just reflects what people are wanting in that moment because that's what they believe they want. It's like what paper's right and what the headlines are. They're just reflecting what they believe people want to see or what they believe that people will be interested in.”
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“I think that is the part that we can control. Same with social media. We can't get rid of Twitter. Twitter, you know, there's some good stuff about Twitter. I think there's a lot of bad stuff about Twitter. I find it quite triggering a lot of the time. Can we get rid of it? No, it's not going anywhere. So is it about learning how to manage what's going on in there and working with the social media companies to improve that space, which is what we want to try and do? Yes, is it also educating people about how to use that tool as well? And that's the difficult thing. And ideally, if we get rid of all the bad things in life or things or the elements that are bad, that would be amazing. Some stuff out there we have to just learn to manage and learn how to deal with.”
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“The thing is, and I guess the point, and I completely see that side of it, and I see that in my opinion, it's good and bad to Lavin, most things, social media. My point is if you got rid of Love Iron tomorrow and you cancelled it, it'll be replaced by something else. Psych social media, you can't, it's out now, like Reality TV, these kind of shows are out there. So what can we do about it? First of all, let's think about what we're putting on and what representing on there. And secondly, educate. And I think that's why, for example, one of the well-being videos around social media and a big part of that is like dealing with what you see online, body image stuff, which actually links and extends, like you said, from loved ones. Education is the very important point within that. If you're being aware.”
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“Is it good? I wouldn't say that it adds to people's mental health, no, but in a way, you know, if it's escape, isn't that people enjoy and they watch it? I think the important thing is how people are perceiving what they're seeing. What you're seeing as a show ultimately, it is just TV, isn't it? It's how you're perceiving it. But if you're finding that it's triggering you, don't watch it the same with Instagram and I'm following accounts and not making feel good or they're not serving your purpose. If you find that it's triggering you and how you feel, don't watch it. I haven't watched this series. I mean, I have a lot of stuff going on. I just don't have time to watch the show. I'm not missing it. I don't feel that I'm missing out”
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“And actually, my consultant said do it. And I had this obvious noise afraid in my head, being like, take opportunities. I was like, all right, can I go for this? I had 20 weeks between knowing what's going on and going on the show. Most people apply the show apply in the September before, almost a year before. And in that year before, they're already in this certain shape and look this certain way. So I felt a lot of pressure from it. And I say, if I went back, I'd do it differently. I would do it differently. But it's easy to say with hindsight, of course, very easy to say with hindsight.”
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“And it's kind of what I mean by the comfort, I guess. It's about what you are where you feel that you want to be within yourself. Like at the moment, I'm probably carrying a few more pounds and I'm happy with it. I know that I move better in that way. I feel more comfortable in that way. And it's just being happy than yourself, but not being influenced that I like, for example, I'm not bothered though. I have a six-pack. I wouldn't feel that now me being comfortable means me having a six-pack. I actually very happy just to be lean, to have to move, to feel energized and stuff. And that is what Comfortable would mean to me now. But at the time, because I felt like, oh, I needed to look with the abs and everything like that. I was like very much actually out of my comfort. I was restricting my diet huge. I was overtraining. I wasn't spending time with friends saying before the show, I didn't see anyone for like 20 weeks. I found out on the February, I basically went to this interview and I had no intention to kind of go on the show. It just kind of happened. From there, I was off with the...”
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“Not to the stamp extreme that I went to. You know, I was training so hard and stuff, and I was worrying about too much now, I'd be a bit much more like, you know.”
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“For some people, it does send out that wrong message. But, you know, Difficult. I went on the show as myself pretty much the one regret I had going on the show, I think I probably trained very much for the show. If I did it now, I'd still train, but I'd probably do it less worrying about being like ripped or whatever. But it is interesting because, you know, most people would say if they went on TV in that way, they'd want to feel comfortable. I think there's that balance of feeling comfortable in your own skin.”
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“I find peace It's interesting because there's two sides to it. I think that people watch Love Island for escapism and a lot of people watch it and don't kind of, it doesn't go past that level of just like just easy watching fun stuff that you're seeing. But then for some people, they're seeing these bodies and it is affecting their belief and their value within themselves. And that is what worries me. I sit on the ITV board for mental health. So one of the things we're really looking at now is that we should be reflecting on particular reality TV society as a whole, both in kind of diversity in terms of backgrounds, you know, but also body image as well, you know. And I think that's the direction we should be moving in very importantly. And something that I've really said before, the series of Love Island, we've got to see that it reflects society as a whole. You know, whether they follow that advice, that's down to them kind of thing. But, you know, my real worry is that.”
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“What people don't realise often is that what we see in the last kind of hour at night dictates a lot of what goes on in our brains. If you are watching triggering stuff on TikTok, even if it's funny stuff, that is going to influence what your brain's doing from then on. Think about what you're putting in front of your eyes before bed.”
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“Scientific thoughts around this. We are a blank canvas, a blank piece of paper. We are so vulnerable actually in the morning to our day being dictated based on what we see and what influences our days. If you pick up your phone and you see your ex-girlfriend or you see something or Trump has said something or there's a new news piece that's really triggering you, you're allowing external factors to dictate the start of your day. When you're talking about being productive, creative and hitting the day and winning at the day, that's not a good start. So if you can get up in the morning, leave the phone for the first 15 minutes. If it's an urgent message, fine. Get up, have your coffee, have your shower, do your excess, have your walk or whatever, then open your phone. Even if you can do it for 15 minutes to start with, it makes a huge difference. And I find that benefit. Protect that morning and the evening, give that time.”
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“Unfortunately, I agree. Honestly, 100%. If you can't follow, meet them. Just curate your feed, have it to be what you want to be. It's not just about for business or what influence, it's about just general life. Let's be honest, most people spend a couple of hours on your phones and make that couple of hours, either enjoyable or useful or funny. And that's the same with like TikTok and stuff. I use TikTok mostly just for a bit of fun. So I follow mostly like cats doing stupid stuff or whatever. It's anything that makes me laugh. So just it goes back to the kind of interrogating why are you using that platform? Why are you using that social media? Is it serving your purpose and trying generally it's not easy, but try and create those boundaries. If I was going to say to anyone about boundaries around using your phone, try and protect the last and first hour of each day, the first hour is very hard because people get up in the morning, you're up and I'm sure looking at you like, you know, even if you can do it to protect the first 20, 30 minutes. Because the first thing people do, when you wake up in the morning and there's a lot of...”
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“And I think, yeah, absolutely. And I think when you're talking about Instagram, the voices, the noise that you're seeing online particularly on that note, and I try and tell everyone this, go through your feed if you haven't done it recently, go through your followers and unfollow anyone that doesn't serve your hobbies, your interests, your beliefs, your passions. It's amazing how much we collect people that we're following that actually make us feel bad, they're giving us the wrong noises, they're making us kind of judge ourselves harshly, whether that's body type or what they're achieving or they just annoy you. Unfollow it, your feet. If you're going to have this noise, have it as a noise that reflects your purpose.”
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“Take that piece of papers. All you need to pen and the paper is very easy task. It's not a complex one. Write it down. It's amazing. It's such a really enriching and motivating process. And again, the key thing is it's not like, yes, I'm achieving it. It's not about that. And it's about going, well, what direction am I going in if it's not the direction I want? What am I going to do to change it, basically?”
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“Yeah, and I think it's that idea, like you said, life is kind of all you've got influences within your life, like friends and family. They have common beliefs, what your mum wanted you to do or whatever. And that directs you then, as you say, you've got this massive, it's loud and quiet, and that's the problem, is an undertone and a loud kind of barb is saying, do this, this is what should make you happy. I think that interrogation is very important. I think anyone listening to this, ask yourself honestly, when is the last time you genuinely sat down or thought about what you want to do in life? What actually is your purpose? What makes you happy? What is peace? What does peace mean to you? And if you haven't done it in the last year or so, do it.”
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“As an individual, just get out of your head sometimes, you know, get out on paper, know what you're doing, am I happy? Do I want to change it? Am I following? When I write down my purpose, am I actually doing that? Am I doing what purpose? But also, if I'm not, what am I doing to achieve it? Because if you're not doing anything that will get you to that purpose, then what are you doing?”
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“I just need to have a moment. I write down all my thoughts, my goals, my ideas. Sometimes I just word vomit onto paper, whatever. I'm just thinking in the moment. And then I leave that piece of paper for a day or so. I come back and I look at it. And sometimes you think, what is really bad? And I start circling stuff and I start thinking about how does that connect? Why did I write that? What am I thinking about when I'm looking at that? And then from that, you draw take away that word vomit and make a new list of like, you know, what is my purpose? Number one, what is my number one purpose that I want? What is my purpose? And then, you know, under that, put your goals. You know, how am I going to achieve that? What are my goals? What are my aims? How am I going to put into practice? And it's just a simple thing, actually. It's so easy. You just need to pan the blank piece of paper. But I think everyone should do that so often. I mean, in business, they talk about the five-year plan and all this kind of stuff.”
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“I do believe that modern life, unfortunately, does create a lot of boundaries. I think you can't do this or that. You can't change the direction. If you're in this direction, you can't go in the opposite. And I think that's such a shame. And we should change that. Look at medicine, for example. I mean, imagine the eyebrows raised when I moved in the complete opposite direction. I don't mean this. I hope it doesn't come across in this way. But a lot of the things I've done haven't been done before by someone that's a junior doctor that's going through those ranks. It's a first, certainly in this country Dr. Mike has done something similar in America, but in this country it's quite different. But I hope that people, what we'll take from that is that actually you can change. You don't have to go down a certain path. And if you're not happy with the path you're going down, what you're going to do to change it, what are your goals? Write it all down. I still do it now. Every now and then when I'm feeling a bit, oh, I need to, you know, think about where I go with things.”
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“I believe in that kind of law of attraction, but if you move in a certain direction, you take a step in a certain direction, you will move in that direction. And the further steps you take, you move further in that direction, and you will attract people that are moving in that same direction. And that's fine if it's going in the direction you want to, but if it's not, you're going to end up having a place you don't want to be. And that's why the number one first chapter that I talk about is that passion and purpose, the purpose idea. How do you find your purpose? And a lot of people ask that question. And I think it's that idea you've got to look at your like values, your experiences, your beliefs, your interests, and find that intersection between those. What are your actual talents? Where does that all kind of lie? You've always got time to change that direction. I think when you're in life and you're doing law, but you wanted to do, I don't know, you want to be an artist or whatever, why, first of all, what do you need to do to get to that position?”
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“But you can make more options also gives you the possibilities of making a lot of mistakes. For example, you know, and again, I'm not saying there's any kind of slight at all. We're all different. Everyone's different. But for me, I was not going to come out and do club appearances or do those kind of things because it's a I'm an introvert. I'd have hated it as you probably realized by now but secondly it would have drawn away from what I actually what my purpose was and what I really wanted to achieve so you know and I very wise advice I received coming out of the show it's a wise advice I received when I came out of the show was say no to most things you know if you're saying yes to more things you're saying no you're probably doing something wrong and I had to kind of channel that and it was a risk in it in some sense I could have made a ton of money going to club peers the most I was offered was like”
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“Just get back into that kind of what the sense of me was, and from doing that actually, it gave me the purpose for everything else and all the things that I do and all the things, the books, the podcast, the other bits and pieces that I'm doing in my life, it all stems off that purpose. And I think I was very lucky to have that therapy. And I'm glad that I had it to help me figure out what I was going to do.”
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“I just kind of was like, this is just a little bit crazy. It's like this is a crazy thing to go for. I need to kind of process this. And it really helped me because I went back to unpicking about who am I, what do I want in life? What do I want to achieve in my life? And it allowed me to kind of consider those things as well as dealing with like, okay, what's it like, you know, to for people to recognize all this kind of stuff? And it really helped me. And going back to that kind of purpose point, I kind of had this kind of big life shift of like, what is my purpose now? Because I've trained or I wanted to be a doctor since age about 13. And all passed all those exams. I've actually pretty happy at 27 years old being a doctor. I've got a good life and what I'm doing. I enjoy it. Now I've got this whole new thing. What is my purpose? And it really helped me kind of figure that out. And one of the biggest things and most important things I did was going back to work. I went back to A&E after a couple of months to kind of to kind of.”
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“Unpick what I was going through. And it was almost like such a big shock to the system. And it really, really helped me. And I'd say to anyone, you know, everyone should have a therapist. I actually think, you know, everyone needs a therapist in life. And it's one of the things that I think the Americans have really got right. I think that we could learn from is that it's so much more open to talk about things and what you're going through. People are very happy to say, I'm getting therapy. And it wasn't because I was particularly going through a difficult time. I just was aware I've had quite a big change.”
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“When you look at risks for deterioration in mental health or mental illness, one of the biggest things we talk about is change and big life change. And people sometimes think that means bad things. It means good and bad. Like, for example, you could have been given your dream job in London and you're from Leeds. Now, that's the goal and what's happening is your dream. You've had that dream job, but it means a big life upheaval getting a new flat, being away from family, friends. So even good things can bring problems, right? When I came out of the show, I was like, wow, I've been through. I was quite aware. I've been through quite a big thing. I've gone from, you know, 200 followers on Instagram to 1 million in nine weeks. You know, I'm not someone from social media. I don't understand it at all. It was all completely new. The life had changed are now being stopped, you know, by everyone in the street, which is something so different for me. And I was like, I need to process this. So that's why I went to therapy. And I think it was one of the best things I've done. I kind of had to kind of like.”
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“Why is that such a big thing? It's not a problem to have the phone outside the room. Why do you really need it? But it shows our attachment to tech and to the modern life. We don't need that phone. Actually, when I was on Love Island, the best thing about going on Love Island was that I didn't have a phone for nearly nine weeks. That was the best thing about it. I didn't even say that. It was great being a sunshine. But that actually was amazing. It was like a real like, wow. And now I've come back. We're so attached to it again. And it's something I'm working on. I'm conscious. I need to start putting my phone out of my bedroom. I've done it a few times, but it just creeps back in. But I'm aware of it now. And then I think that's a big starting point for fixing a problem is just knowing it's there.”
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“And then, if you want any more kind of evidence of how much it controls it, think about if I said someone now, right, don't have your phone in the bedroom tonight. For most people, I don't want to speak forever, but a lot of people who are doing support, I'm not doing that. Anxiety around the thought of not having your phone in the bedroom. It's like...”
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“Through that awareness, modifying, we realize all of a sudden we modify our behavior. It's kind of idea if I say to you, right, focus on your breathing, it's like, oh, like think about your breath, all of a sudden you start controlling your breathing, you're aware of it, you're making a conscious. Conscious decision around that subject. So I think just having that knowledge, have that understanding and be aware of what it's doing to your life. Some of it might incorporate some of you think actually I'm fine in that sense, but think about it.”
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“Summer shape, right? And being a summer body, right? Not calling you out here. But part of me, same for me as well, I went, well, why is that? Why are we doing that? As soon as you're aware of the why and why we're doing something, we then...”
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“Make time for the people around you, see them in person, do things with them in meaningful ways, talking about sleep, you know, the whole like sleep when your dad idea and a lot of, I think, you know, you talk, you like to talk obviously a lot of very successful business people and sometimes the slightly negative side of the work that that life is not fighting that balance of sleep. And I know the things I'm juggling as well that can be difficult, but I really, really value and understand that if I don't have my eight hours sleep and good quality sleep, I'm not going to be as productive. I won't actually be as creative. And I probably won't be as successful at things I'm doing. So it's just making those changes, you know, and just being aware. Once you're aware of a problem, you talked in an episode before talked about exercising between for the summer.”
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“But generally, being out and about is brilliant for that. I make sure that the end of each day, I again get outside and I move, but also I do my exercise the end of the day. It signifies the end of my working day.”
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“I think so. And even, I think as a whole, I think that's a big part of the solution. But as an individual, if you're sitting within this space, you're living in the world in now. You can't get rid of social media. It's part of our work. It's literally part of the mouthpiece of a lot of the stuff that we do, for example. You can't get rid of that. So what is the answer? It's about adapting and making sure that you are aware in your life of these principles and thinking about how you can actually adapt your life to make sure you encapsulate, you know, you incorporating that. For example, stuff like I know if I don't go for a walk each day and get natural light and just feel that I'm around in nature, I get anxious. I feel a sense of just like being not at ease. So I make sure every morning I get up in the morning. First thing I do every day is go for a walk, out for a walk in nature. I move. It's great for productivity. I get great ideas sometimes when I'm thinking, walking, some bad ones as well.”
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“It has to be a combination thing, but this is what you know, and there's so many people out there, not necessarily depressed, but they're just a low mood of just anadonia that just don't feel themselves. They're just a bit lost. And I think a lot of it comes back to the things I talk about in that book.”
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“And we combine that with other treatments if needed, regardless of that disease. And actually, even when you're looking at severe forms of mental illness, the lifestyle factor will always remain really, really important because without that, I don't think the treatments can do it alone.”
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“What the work I'm doing in the youth mental health role, I'm focused on education so much, and we've made five well-being videos for the summer as part of the summer school program, which are going to go out to all the schools in the UK. And we're looking at sleep. We're looking at exercise. We're looking at nutrition. We're looking at managing social media and what to do when you're not feeling good in yourself. And within those videos and within the toolkits we're giving, I'm hoping there's a lot of stuff in there that people go, wow, I didn't realize that about sleep and why that's important or why I need to get natural light, why I need to get outside. So I think so much of that stuff comes together. I'm not saying that the cause of mental illness is always related to life. That is obviously not true. There's a huge amount out there that's, you know, to do with genetics and diseases. You can't blame lifestyle for all disease. But I do think it's a big part of it. And if you look at what happens when you go to your doctor and say, I'm depressed, I need help. The first thing we look at is like...”
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“People often feel like we don't have our sense of purpose and not really understanding why we feel that way. You know, a lot of the things in modern life are pulling us away from good quality sleep, giving us bad sleep. They're putting us towards fast foods and processed foods away from natural sources of good quality food that fuels our body. And if you look at all that and you think about it in that way, it makes a lot of sense why people feel quite lost. They don't know why they feel a certain way. And I think we just need to kind of step back and go, let's educate. And this is why.”
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“Well, I think if you look at what humans are designed to do, we're designed to be out, well, we should be outside mostly. We will create shelters and things, but most of our day should be in natural light. We should be going out and searching and foraging and finding our food as part of a team. So we're usually in a family or a group, a clan to kind of tribe to go out there to get your food. We're supposed to feel that sense of purpose within our tribe. So someone is generally a leader, the people that help, it's people with different skills, but you feel a sense of belonging to that tribe. We should be eating food that comes from the earth that's not processed food that we certainly wouldn't do as part of nature. We get plenty of exercise as part of our day, you know, foraging, hunting, doing whatever building. You look at modern life and flip that round and go, a lot of us spend our times in boxes inside without any natural light, glued to phones, not connected with”
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