Niki Clarke

Welcome to Proper Mental Episode 29!

My guest this week is Niki Clarke!

Niki Clarke is the founder of the mental health support charity My Black Dog.

My Black Dog is currently the only mental health online chat service.  It is staffed completely by volunteers who all have lived experience of their own mental health struggles.

Talking about your mental health is hard and asking for help can be even harder.  I love the idea of My Black Dog as a chat service is so easy to use even when someone is going through a tough time.  The fact that the person on the other side of the conversation will understand what you’re going through can be an incredible help as well.

Niki and I chat about her own mental health struggles that inspired her to set up the charity and help others, we chat about how she went about setting up the charity, how it works behind the scenes and all sorts of other things from compassion to self-care to being an advocate and a load of other stuff too!

It’s a great conversation and a fascinating insight behind the scenes of the only online chat support service for mental health.

Please go and check out My Black Dog.  They provide an incredibly important service and really are doing amazing things!  We can’t take a one size fits all approach to mental health and Niki and My Black Dog are offering a completely different service which is completely free for anyone who might need it.

You can see what My Black Dog are up to on social media @myblackdog_co and if you need their help you can chat to one of the volunteers via the website www.myblackdog.co.

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If you need to seek support, you can find services close to you by visiting www.hubofhope.co.uk

Thanks for listening!  Enjoy!