Is therapy a privilege? Is it selfish? Is it too expensive? Is it just for serious mental illnesses? Are you 'bad' enough to go to therapy? Does it even work? Let's talk about it. CRISIS SUPPORT in the UK: Contact 111 or your GP and ask for an emergency appointment. Call 116 123 to talk to Samaritans, or email: jo@samaritans.org for a reply within 24 hours Text "SHOUT" to 85258 to contact the Shout Crisis Text Line, or text "YM" if you're under 19 OTHER PLACES TO TURN TO FOR FREE SUPPORT: There are TONS, but I’m just listing here the three that people in my life have personally used and recommended. If you have others, please mention them in the comments for people to find :) https://www.mind.org.uk/ http://www.samaritans.org/ CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) https://www.thecalmzone.net/ WHERE I FOUND A THERAPIST: https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/ List of UK professional bodies: https://www.hqtherapy.com/professional-bodies-associations-therapy/ BOOK The part I read out was from page 160 from Therapy is Magic by Jo Love /// SUPPORT /// JOIN THE GUMPTION CLUB: https://www.patreon.com/thegumptionclub Being in the club means you get: a free weekly podcast, access to a secret facebook group, a free poetry collection and play written by me, access to livestreams AND you get to access to all my videos before anyone else sees them! CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP - for those lovely people who don't want to use Patreon and aren't bothered about the patreon perks, but who'd like to buy me a drink as a thank you for the free videos... null Nab yourself a POSITIVE PANIC PATCH: https://leenanorms.com/shop ORDER my poetry collection, BARGAIN BIN ROM-COM! https://linktr.ee/bargainbinromcom // COME AND HANG WITH ME IN BETWEEN UPLOADS // Listen to my podcast, NO BOOKS ON A DEAD PLANET: https://linktr.ee/nobooksonadeadplanet IF NEWSLETTERS ARE YOUR THING, sign up to get a little letter in your inbox from me once in a while! As a thank you for signing up, you’ll get a FREE downloadable list of my best books of all time: https://leenanorms.substack.com/subscribe INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/leenanorms TWITTER: https://twitter.com/leenanorms I use Octopus Energy which are a clean green sustainable energy company - if you're in the UK and are curious, here are the two videos I talk about them in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0TR7RvVRlI and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEqf94lb44U And here's my referral link if you'd like to get £50 off (I get £50 off too, woo!) https://share.octopus.energy/fun-hawk-883 All music used is licensed through Epidemic Sound - I've been using them for years and hand-on-heart it's really fab. You get unlimited use of their music per month for a pretty bargain fee. Here's my referral link (if you sign up through it I get a free month): https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/1b1yhj/ If you're a company that makes plastic-free products, pays their tax and doesn't exploit people, I'd love to hear from you if you'd like to sponsor the channel: leenanorms@gmail.com