Great to have Dr Anna Colton with us this week. Anna is a clinical psychologist and she chatted to us about the importance of being honest about distress from a young age, helping young minds build a tolerance to deal with it. Anna discusses how the education system needs to change to help young people formulate a language to understand and label their distress. While this requires significant institutional change, on an individual note, Anna recommends that young people create an environment around them to help them deal with distress including, organising your life so you have protective factors around to help. Anna points out how “vulnerability attracts us to each other”, and it's a reason we enjoy the company of others because it makes them human, helping us to remember we are also human too. This in turn can help us all to not be frightened by our own vulnerability. Tune in for more.
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