(Who even uses the phrase sex kitten, for Gods sake?). Journalist Isabel Hardman on politics, social care and what lies ahead for the NHS. I can dive in with a long face and what feels like a terminal case of depression, and come out a whistling idiot. As I say, we'd love to have you back on next year after the books are published. Hello and welcome to Health on the Line. So, we hope that all across the country, people are reflecting on the meaning of World Mental Health Day. I tried to look after myself, booking a holiday in Nice with someone I had started seeing a few weeks before. People of this zodiac sign like cooking, romance, working with hands and dislike sudden changes, complications, and insecurity. Its got out of the political world and into the housing estate where I live at the moment where no one is very interested in politics, but they jolly well are now. And what are the biggest reason why people of working age are not working is because they are unwell or because they've got caring responsibilities. But also, it was the sort of thing that just happened. I do not want to ban supermarkets just because they remind me of terrible events, nor do I want to avoid them. Now, he sees 2008 as another kind of critical turning point. And we also need to innovate, and we have to innovate faster. But on that evening in September 2016, the words just stopped coming. Because then you've got a tight labour market and makes it even harder to recruit people into social care. He also worries about over-diagnosis of the illness in which he specialises. Secondly, more specifically, we said that we need proper investment in dentistry before we can expect ICSs to make progress when that responsibility is handed to them. Isabel is one of the most talented journalists. It was just that I eventually became too sick to do it, my doctor was insistent that I keep running, I cannot shake the feeling that Ive encountered an American-style system when it comes to mental health care, become more unwell while waiting, with one in six attempting suicide, Theresa May has decided to make mental health a priority, Children now grow up understanding depression, cricketer Graeme Fowler devised for his own children when he was depressed, My illness showed me how very badly things are going wrong in mental health care. (And yes, that special adviser was a bloke. I was on a walk. So, I'm delighted to be joined by Isabel Hardman, who I've known for many years. On 3 October 2016, my mind was full of words flying angrily around like startled gulls. Female journalist says she threatened to "punch" a Tory MP after he So, I've looked at that. My partners eldest daughter, who shows compassion and emotional intelligence far beyond her eight years, had spotted something was up. Isabel Hardman, Baroness Walney (born 5 May 1986),[1] is an English political journalist and the assistant editor of The Spectator. Given @eyespymp is enjoying tracking my movements, now is as good a time as any to say I'm currently off sick with depression. "Nature makes it a bit better" - an interview with Isabel Hardman And you've written a lot, of course, about the importance of things and nothing to do with the health service in terms of health and wellbeing - nature, physical activity, the kind of attitudes you have to life. And I think just to finish, another problem with this is that as soon as you say wellbeing, even people like me sort of who love being in nature all go out and they think about Gwyneth Paltrow. And as chancellors of the Exchequer always tell us, inflation leads to devaluation.. The more I saw, the more I wanted to return to work so I could write about these problems more. British political journalist who came into the spotlight as an assistant editor forThe Spectator. Which is a lesson thatwillreverberate beyond parliament. But they stopped me feeling worse, and made me a little more positive about being alive. Isabel Hardman. You can't do the normal things: you're not working and you can't imagine seeing friends and trying to keep up with their conversation. Theresa May has decided to make mental health a priority, and this week announced more help, particularly for young people who fall ill. Whos the richest Journalist in the world? That night, I ended up being sedated. And for me and many others, it can play a crucial role in keeping us sane. Listeners fortunately can't see this, but Matthew and I both wearing fluorescent clothing having done our morning exercise before this podcast and mine was actually cycling with my son to his nursery, which our area of Scotland is designed in the way that that's quite safe. [17][18] In November 2019, Woodcock announced he and Hardman were expecting a child. This immediately disqualifies me from the popular conception of a PTSD sufferer as someone endlessly recalling bullets and bombs. At the time, friends told me I would need space to recover from a near miss like this. I blew up at colleagues who were merely going about their day jobs. [19] Hardman gave birth to a son on 12 May 2020. And the more frenetically they try to push themselves up, the more they slide down. And one of the things that's kind of fascinating about this, the Truss administration, is that it's in a way, it's the first time we've had a Conservative government that isn't saying we're doing something other than kind of right of centre policy. There is no reason why it should lag behind the treatment of physical illness. A false conception of PTSD comes from its origins in military service. The most famous British victim of orchidelirium was the lady's-slipper orchid: a fat, acid-yellow, slipper-like lip surrounded by regal claret-coloured petals and corkscrew-twisting sepals. And it wasn't that long ago that I was interviewing you on the radio where you started to talk about how the public may have to manage, lower their expectations of what the NHS could do for them as well. But I cannot shake the feeling that Ive encountered an American-style system when it comes to mental health care. What bothers some men, I suspect, about stories like this is that it sounds as if men are getting hounded for saying cack-handed but basically complimentary things. "If she says 10, then shes fine and well enough to play with you. But back then, those were just the war stories female reporters told each other, or maybe occasionally female MPs. Ive never even had the Sunday night blues. My shoulders were often so tight from the stress that I couldnt turn my head. Ruling Planet: Isabel Hardman has a ruling planet of Venus and has a ruling planet of Venus and by astrological associations Friday is ruled by Venus. Reflecting. Enter your password to log in. And at least one cheer too for the party whips who ensured Hardman received a full personal apology, thus reminding anyone inclined to this sortof thing that reducing a professionally competent woman to the sum of titsnass in front of her colleagues mayultimately embarrass you far more than her. Those 15 minutes with no bustle, talking or worrying help even a tough day feel a bit more manageable. Genre. Isabel Hardman's age is 36. At first, I found work was an escape from my personal problems, and colleagues remarked on how well I seemed to be coping, given what had happened. And now they're thinking, I mean, is that all going up in smoke? The pair brought their first child into the world in May 2020. After my breakdown, I took two months off. They dont hear I may be a clumsy oaf, but I think youre pretty. They hear, I think youre lightweight/stupid/not to be taken remotely seriously; Im only acknowledging you at all because youre pretty.Oh, and sometimes, when Ive got genuinely important business to do,Ill probably speak to one of themen. But I can talk generally about what the illness has done to me. ), tweeted briefly to the effect that actually thats not how you treat a woman at work in 2016, by its political editor-at-large Isabel Oakeshott. Shell shock was first diagnosed by doctors working with soldiers in the First World War who saw men so traumatised by the endless sound of gunfire, death and trench conditions that they were unable to speak. Isabel Hardmans birth sign is Taurus and she has a ruling planet of Venus. And she's analysed what she found with a fierce intellect.' - Harriet Harman 'This thoroughly readable and well-researched book explains why parliamentary powers won't ever be used properly until parties change how they choose their candidates . But sadly, it seems that the current iteration of the Department of Health doesnt because they've just scrapped the health inequalities paper, which is so depressing and you might have a sort of quibble about anti-obesity policies or whatever. Describing 2016 as "terrible"is so melodramatic and hackneyed. We're not going to get this debate into a better place. Well, and the irony is this arguably the biggest reason we are where we are in terms of the problems of not just the health service in Britain, but I was talking to a senior NHS leader the other day who'd gone back to America to practice in his hospital. Therefore, Isabel was named as Journalist of the Year at the Political Studies Association's annual awards. Not only does this come at a cost to those who really do suffer from a mental illness, it also damages those who do not: the treatment for PTSD involves drugs that are often very hard to stop taking, and therapy that involves you reliving every moment and feeling of your trauma. Free to listen, every fortnight. Even with old friends, I often fret about whether I will perform well, whereas with running, the chatter comes as an afterthought. Isabel Hardman: Black Tights - YouTube 0:00 / 3:22 Sign in to confirm your age This video may be inappropriate for some users. Journalist Isabel Hardman talks to Matthew Taylor about the current state of politics, the NHS and what the health service can realistically deliver over the next few months and beyond. Focusing on nature makes you attend to the now, rather than what has happened or might happen. I don't think she was being serious that she wanted some kind of big stripping out an entire tier of NHS management. And then again with a broader lens, we repeated our view that the new NHSE has to be one in which local leaders working in collaboration with their partners have more freedom to innovate and be responsive to local needs. Because they were old, frail people they couldn't get out of the hospital. Despite the Natural Health Service, I'm still sick. She was not intending to name the man[13] who was subsequently revealed to be the Conservative MP Bob Stewart.[14]. Sometimes doing mindfulness sessions even made things worse, as I struggled to block out thoughts that I'd spent all day wrestling with, only to invite them through the open door as I sat for ten minutes in silence. But now what it's trying to do is, on the one hand, cope with unprecedented level of demand, with inadequate resources, but also try to provide the full range of health services to a public who understandably wants that full range of health services. You know, you look back at austerity under Cameron and Osborne, and Brexit even, the fights over Brexit have toughened up, probably to an unhelpful extent, a lot of Tories, because they've just been used to not just people being cross with them, but actually people screaming at them in the street and following them and all the things that we really don't want to be happening in politics. And you know, when I was growing up, I'm 36, so when I was growing up, I can remember moths dancing in the headlights of my dad's car as we drove through country lanes. Every single day. And again, that's become another sort of like an industry that seems to just involve endless candles and herbal teas, most of which are disgusting and have nothing to do with the health of the general population and keeping them outside of needing regular medical attention. I've been in this job for 14 months, Isabel, and Im on my fourth secretary of state. I know at this point some readers will wish to know more, but I am writing this at a precarious stage of a recovery that has, so far, taken two and a half years and suffered multiple setbacks. During the Eighties, conservative politics and Reaganomics held sway as the Berlin Wall crumbled, new computer technologies emerged and blockbuster movies and MTV reshaped pop culture. Other notables with the illness include Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande and Evan Rachel Wood. But just before we move away entirely from what's going on at the moment. The greatest overall compatibility with Taurus is Scorpio and Cancer. And that's why Thatcher was very tempted by the idea of an insurance-based system, freaked out when she saw how the public responded to that sort of thing. linktr.ee/isabel.hardman. I hurt myself. So, I want to get into that in a minute. So, on the one hand we need to understand the role the NHS and care system has in our having a dynamic economy and a good society. It was just life, if you were young and female and occasionally encountered men apparently baffled by the presence of women in a non-shagging capacity; men who frankly didnt seem to know what else to say to us. It's also short sighted as research the Confed is about to publish shows that when health and care services are overstretched, it has an impact not just on patients and staff, but the wider economy. Shes been a regular contributor to a BBC One talk show hosted by Andrew Marr . So somehow we've got to connect the political debate to how we or most of us actually think about health and wellbeing in our day to day lives. But how much is the debate in the Conservative Party at the moment focused on building healthy neighbourhoods and how much of it is actually focused on not building neighbourhoods in constituencies in the south east that will get cross with the Tories? That normal distress, also known as an acute stress reaction, is at risk of being overly-medicalised, not just into an erroneous diagnosis of PTSD but also more generally into anxiety and depression. The Daily Mail ran a piece by its political editor-at-large Isabel Oakeshott, suggesting Hardman risked looking humourless for complaining; perhaps there was even a case to be argued that she should be pleased an MP wanted to talk to her. Isabel Hardman Cast off: how knitters turned nasty Copy link Copied . A representative parliament isn't just something to boast about. While my friends, family and colleagues have been supportive and forgiving, I do notice a scepticism about my diagnosis that just doesnt accompany apparently more user-friendly depression. And so I've decided to be very narrow and actually focus on the health service. This account already exists. Isabel Hardman, Author at The Spectator In fact, some of the people I interviewed for my book about their swimming, gardening and running have had serious mental health crises since we spoke, with a number even being admitted to hospital. The author also shares her impressions of the new health and social care secretarys approach, Isabel's own experiences of mental health and the book she is writing on the history of the NHS. My mind started working again in late November. While Wessely is indeed worried about devaluation he is horrified by the attempts to make non-military sufferers feel as though they are faking it. So you end up trying to find things to keep you busy. It took a while to find the right anti-depressants, but as we fiddled with the dosage, my doctor was insistent that I keep running and horse riding, no matter how terrible I felt. So often, you know, commentators like yourself, writers, are able to say things which politicians aren't able to say. never before had I struggled to control my mind. Yeah. But I didnt complain. Isabel Hardman - Wikipedia So, we still thought it was important to say what we felt needed to be included in that plan. That's the kind of level of anger and fear. Isabel Hardmans fee for this piece has been donated to Heads Together - a campaign to highlight the work of eight mental health charities, and one of the Telegraphs three chosen charities for our 2016 Christmas appeal. And weirdly the NHS crisis has momentarily disappeared from the forefront of politician's mind as the worse thing that's happening to the government. I have needed far more reassurance than I thought I would: every day I have worried I am not doing enough, or that colleagues dont need me any more. But you don't actually have to travel somewhere to see nature. Other cultural changes have made things harder, too. [fetch instagram= display=posts show=2 ]. It seems everyone has PTSD these days. Oct 28, 2016 -- 25 This is a nicer picture of what it's like to be depressed than that lonely figure on the path photo that everyone uses. In 2016, when I decided to speak out about the mental illness that had forced me off sick for two months, the reaction could not have been kinder or more enlightened. All rights reserved. Isabel Hardman: When my mind stopped working, I realised just how badly Tending to my garden has also helped: I know now that even sorting out my compost heap can make me feel more alert and calm. Isabel Hardman - Age, Bio, Personal Life, Family & Stats - CelebsAges First of all, we need to talk about health as an investment proposition. At an early stage in my recovery, I would talk about my efforts to 'beat' depression, but for most of us it is an ongoing struggle. 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