#51: Daragh Fleming: Normalising Conversations About Mental Health

Darragh is a poet, an author, a public speaker, and a mental health advocate.

We chat about so many important topics in this episode, including:

• How Daragh's passion for mental health advocacy started through the loss of his friend to suicide
• His own personal struggles with depression 
• Emotional numbness and repressed emotion
• How creativity saved him 
• Building a mental health routine 
• Normalising conversations about mental health 
• How raw, authentic, and vulnerable conversation with others is so important and also so healing 
• His experience with being blackmailed for nudes and how he dealt with it 
• How Daragh unintentionally realised he had ADHD and how it affects him
• 'Let The Light Pour In'

The thing I love most is his openness and willingness to help others by sharing his story so beautifully. His poems have me in tears on the regular… so raw, so authentic, so beautiful, and so relatable. He actually reads one of his poems at the end of this episode.  Daragh and I connected online about 8 years ago and finally met in person for the first time … it did not disappoint!