EELS 55 Thursday 16th October 2008

The Extraordinary Everyday Lives Show #055

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Dave and Mike are joined by Michael Specht to discuss the activities that were undertaken by those people in and around in our social network space to bring awareness of anxiety and depression for the month of October and in particular Oct 10, World Mental Health day. Michael setup BlueDay2008.org to aggregate activities and we talk about how that went.

We then talk about fish bowls, trading freedoms - locally / globally - and what we do to stay sane.

Some Links etc:

BlueDay2008
World Mental Health day
Inspecht
TedTalk - could fishbowl bey key to keeping depression at bay for the worried well (too much choice => paralysis)
beyondblue: the national depression initiative

The Blue Day Book- depression awareness
Journeys with the Black Dog

Acknowledgments:

Intro music, “Wake Up Now”, by steck, via macjams.com.
cc Flickr photo above by ashleyrosex