Improving Your Mental Health
Professor Tanya Byron and Alex Scott uncover the latest science on how to improve your mental health and wellbeing – and reveal some surprising new techniques.
Clinical psychologist Professor Tanya Byron teams up with former England footballer Alex Scott, who has suffered from depression, to discover how the latest science can help us gain greater control over our state of mind and improve our mental health and wellbeing.
Even in normal times, one in four of us will experience mental health difficulties, but living through a global pandemic has put our mental health under unprecedented strain. Over the past year, a team from Imperial College London, in collaboration with the BBC, have surveyed the mental health of over 350,000 people across the UK. This unique study provides a snapshot before and during the pandemic, revealing its shocking impact.
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Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:01Goldfrapp
Ooh La La
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00:03Bloc Party
Signs
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00:05Foster the People
Houdini (Album Version)
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00:19Goldfrapp
Believer
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00:21Goldfrapp
Believer
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00:28Foster the People
Warrant
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00:31Paul J. Borg
Holding On
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00:35Wild Beasts
Reach a Bit Further
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Tanya Byron |
| Presenter | Alex Scott |
| Director | Ruhi Hamid |
| Executive Producer | Jacqueline Smith |
| Executive Producer | Paul Overton |
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