Episode 69

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9th Oct 2023

Denise Devenish - Help and Drugs and Rock and Roll

Welcome to the Stupid Hearts Club! The Club for everyone with a Stupid Heart

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Hey kids

I love the chat I had this week the lovely Denise Devenish, a counsellor (slightly different from a therapist) who works predominantly with people from the music industry.


Here we go deep as we discuss the pressure around tolerance for booze, drugs and hedonism around music culture and how hard musicians can find it to reach out for help. I really enjoyed hearing about Denise's approach to helping people with their mental health, and I hope that our more general chat around all the different types of counselling and therapy is useful to someone out there.


You can find Denise on Instagram where she is @dd.counselling


You can find the Campaign Against Living Miserably here:

https://www.thecalmzone.net/


Another good place to start exploring theraputic options is MIND, which is here:

https://www.mind.org.uk/


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