How ‘absolute terror’ led this P.E.I. male to start a podcast about mental health
Feeling alone is a common thesis on Matt Burke’s podcast about mental health.
The 24-year-old started Matty’s Mental Health Podcast about 10 months ago and since afterwards has available 21 episodes in his Charlottetown home, covering a far-reaching operation of topics including his possess story.
“The purpose of a podcast is to yield a height where people can share their stories with mental health.”
He pronounced a lot of people feel like they have to quarrel their mental health battles on their own, and by a podcast, he wants to uncover them they don’t have to.
On a podcast he has oral to people about things such as depression, stress and how concussions can impact a person’s mental health.
“I’ve had counsellors on there. They talked about mental health from their side,” he said.
“A lot of engaging people. I’ve schooled a lot from them.”
Burke pronounced he is not a mental health veteran “by any widen of a imagination,” though he has had his possess struggles with mental health and suggested his story on Episode 9.
‘Absolute terror’
When Burke was 20, his partner took her possess life.
The integrate was carrying a formidable time and while he was out one night his cellphone died as the dual were texting behind and forth.
I usually knew right divided that we was usually looking to make a certain out of it somehow.— Matt Burke
The following morning he was cleaning off his automobile to go check on her when her relatives pulled into the driveway and told him his partner had killed herself.
“It was usually comprehensive terror,” Burke said.
He couldn’t hang his conduct around it. He was a disaster and he got ill to his stomach.
“I totally mislaid it. we went into a rage. we punched a ground. we went into my residence and we punched holes in a wall,” he said.
His girlfriend’s family insisted he come with them for a day and he went. He pronounced they talked him down from his emotions.
“I was propitious they took me in right divided and treated me as family,” he said.
Now, with a podcast he is anticipating to yield identical support by deliberating mental health with others.
When we do tell your story it unequivocally does help.— Mark Burke
“I usually knew right divided that we was usually looking to make a certain out of it somehow,” he said.
“Like ‘How can we help? How can we pierce this forward? Take this knowledge and assistance somebody else that was in a same conditions she was in,'” Burke said.
He pronounced he wasn’t certain what form that assistance would take until he found podcasting and motionless to start mouth-watering Islanders to plead mental wellness.
‘Anxious, like constantly’
Mark Burke — no propinquity to Matt — was on a latest partial of a podcast. He played hockey on P.E.I. for about 16 years, from squirts to junior, he said.
In Dec of 2016 he suffered a concussion and returned to a ice after dual weeks. Two-and-a-half months after he suffered another concussion. That’s when he satisfied they were holding a fee on his mental health.
“Anxious, like constantly. I’d go by bouts of basin from it. Just roughly felt arrange of stranded in a quarrel or moody state,” Mark said.
“Mood swings would incidentally happen. we would go from rather happy, to insane as crazy over something stupid to roughly being in tears and that could all occur in a camber of 15 minutes.”
While he was experiencing this, he was going by changes in his life and had usually changed out on his own, so he attributed a mental health issues to that.
He pronounced he didn’t unequivocally consider his mental health was impacted by a concussions until he listened former Boston Bruins goalie Tim Thomas talk about how his mental health was influenced by concussions.
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Mark usually told his relatives about a month ago and a family went to see a mental health veteran together.
“He referred me to a neurologist, so we are in line for that,” Mark said.
Mark also struggles with tiny speak following a concussions and appearing on the podcast was a approach of addressing that issue.
“That felt genuine good, usually to kind of atmosphere it all out,” he said. “I got to keep relocating brazen and make myself improved each day to kind of set a good instance — that when we do tell your story it unequivocally does help.”
Mark pronounced he was means to describe to Matt meaningful he also struggled with mental health.
‘Tornado of emotions’
The year after his partner died Matt was in shock. He couldn’t nap or focus.
“It is kind of a hurricane of emotions,” he said. “You know, a large thing for me, we started therapy right divided and that was outrageous for me. That substantially saved my life.”
Matt pronounced usually articulate about what was going by his mind helped.
I consider by them pity it’ll usually advantage anyone who listens.— Matt Burke
One thing he started to do, that he still does, is go on hikes with his dogs for hours during a time.
“I usually work by all that is going on in my mind,” he said. “It’s kind of like a imagining time, and we always felt a small bit better.”
Matt pronounced he hopes his partner would be unapproachable of a work he is doing now.
He pronounced if what he’s doing helps one person, “it’ll be value it for me.”
Gaining certainty from others
Ronnie McPhee, a village relationship for a city of Charlottetown, was a recent guest on a podcast.
McPhee pronounced listening to Matt and his guests open adult about their mental health troubles desirous him and gave him a certainty to take his spin during a microphone.
When McPhee was younger he struggled with his mental health, and during one point, he spent time in a hospital.
“It gave me a event to put myself in a allied environment to other people who had hurdles like this,” he said.
“It usually showed me how we could offer adult my advantages to support others.”
The categorical thing we try to do is get out of a approach and let them tell their story.— Matt Burke
Being means to speak and assistance others understanding with their mental health struggles has helped him cope with his own, McPhee said.
“That was always a good feeling to me. That’s kind of how we found my approach of coping with a hurdles we kind of grew adult with,” he said.
Guests keep coming
Burke hasn’t had to demeanour for guest unequivocally mostly since many people have asked if they can be partial of a podcast.
“I’m usually like celebrated to do it and we am so grateful for all a guest that strech out to me,” he said. “I know how tough it is to tell your story.”
Bringing these things to light and being some-more merciful about it is 100 per cent a approach to go in a future.— Matt Burke
He pronounced organizing a dire story, to “go behind to that indicate and unequivocally dive into it,” can be difficult.
“The categorical thing we try to do is get out of a approach and let them tell their story and we consider by them pity it’ll usually advantage anyone who listens who is going by a same thing,” he said.
“And even people who aren’t going by a same thing, usually to know what people go through.”
One takeaway he hopes listeners walk divided with is that mental health issues are common.
Having mislaid someone unequivocally tighten to suicide, Matt does worry about some of a people he interviews.
“I never try to force anyone to come on,” Burke said. “I wish to make certain they are in a good adequate place to come on.”
When referring to his girlfriend’s death, Burke pronounced “mental illness took her life.”
He pronounced in a final few years a contention around mental health has turn some-more compassionate.
“Bringing these things to light and being some-more merciful about it is 100 per cent a approach to go in a future.”
Matty’s Mental Health Podcast can be found on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube.
Anyone needing emotional support, predicament involvement or assistance with problem elucidate in P.E.I. can contact The Island Helpline at 1-800-218-2885, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
For some-more information about mental health services on P.E.I., find resources from Health PEI here, or from the Canadian Mental Health Association P.E.I. Division here.
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