A Big Mouthful

About A Big Mouthful

A Big Mouthful was created as a place to discuss what it's like to be LGBT+ and to understand some of the issues that we live with and what affects our mental health. However, most of the topics discussed are relevant to absolutely everyone. Some of the discussions are serious, emotional, controversial, extremely light hearted and humorous but above all, hopefully you will find them informative and give you something to think about.

Publisher

Simon Pearson

Category

health & fitness · health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Jan 2020

Latest episode

14 Aug 2022

Latest episodes

31 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Aug 2022

   Monkeypox

   Greg Owen leads on PrEP at Terrence Higgins Trust and is co-founder of iwantPrEPnow, a website which facilitates the safe purchase of genuine generic PrEP (the HIV prevention drug). He is a global pioneer in PrEP advocacy and was awarded the Life Ball Life Plus Award 2017 for outstanding contribution to HIV prevention. Greg has featured in numerous radio shows and on television, speaking about HIV, sexual well-being and PrEP, as well as writing and contributing to countless articles for LGBT and mainstream media. He recently starred in the critically acclaimed, landmark BBC documentary The People vs The NHS: Who Gets The Drugs? He is currently developing a new television project with one of the UK’s leading production companies. Greg has lectured and presented on PrEP in many different setting across the globe. These range from lecturing at Manchester University and Oxford University to a speaking tour of Taiwan to giving evidence to the All Party Parliamentary Group in Westminster and the Department of Health and Social Care. He also presents regularly at UK medical conferences for organisations such as the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) and the British HIV Association (BHIVA) and presents internationally. He is part of the joint BASHH BHIVA PrEP Guidelines Writing Group. Links BBC coverage of The People vs The NHS; Who Gets the Drugs? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b8cdm4 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b8cdm4) How you get monkeypox https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/monkeypox/ (https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/monkeypox/) Find a sexual health clinic https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/sexual-health/find-a-sexual-health-clinic (https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/sexual-health/find-a-sexual-health-clinic) Monkeypox: background information https://www.gov.uk/guidance/monkeypox (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/monkeypox) Monkeypox in the UK https://www.tht.org.uk/news/monkeypox-uk (https://www.tht.org.uk/news/monkeypox-uk) Please contact A Big Mouthful with any feedback, requests, suggestions or to be involved in an episode. Email: abigmouthful1@gmail.com Don't forget to subscribe to A Big Mouthful Podcasts. Follow us at : Instagram: a_big_mouthful or YouTube: A Big Mouthful or Twitter: @Mouthfulbig

2. 

   19 Dec 2021

   It's Christmas - How to look after our Mental Health.

   Christmas can be a difficult time of the year for so many reasons. It can increase a sense of sorrow, loss, isolation, despondency, failure, regret and despair to identify just a few issues. It can also be a time of over indulgence in many areas, food, alcohol, drugs, sex, risk taking behaviours, anger and for some being abused. This episode doesn't try to resolve all those issues but it  does look at what we can do to feel empowered, to be mindful, present and hopefully more resilient. Please do not forget to subscribe to A Big Mouthful and email me with any thoughts about what you have listened to and with any suggestions for what you would like to hear. Details are below along with some useful links to accompany this episode. I hope your Christmas or festive season is all you would want it to be. See you in 2022. Please contact A Big Mouthful with any feedback, requests, suggestions or to be involved in an episode. Email: abigmouthful1@gmail.com Don't forget to subscribe to A Big Mouthful Podcasts. Follow us at : Instagram: a_big_mouthful or YouTube: A Big Mouthful or Twitter: @Mouthfulbig Your GP can help you: Ring the surgery for an out of hours telephone number outReach Cumbria http://www.outreachcumbria.org.uk/ (http://www.outreachcumbria.org.uk/) Just Like Us https://www.justlikeus.org/ (https://www.justlikeus.org/) Mermaids https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/ (https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/) Supporting trans women in domestic and sexual violence services https://www.stonewall.org.uk/supporting-trans-women-domestic-and-sexual-violence-services Help for teenagers, young adults and students https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/children-and-young-adults (https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/children-and-young-adults) How universities offer student mental health support https://www.whatuni.com/advice/student-life/student-mental-health-support/102217/ (https://www.whatuni.com/advice/student-life/student-mental-health-support/102217/) Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide exist to meet the needs and break the isolation experienced by those bereaved by suicide. https://uksobs.org/ (https://uksobs.org/) Email – write to email.support@uksobs.org Helpline – open 9am to 9pm Monday to Sunday 0300 111 5065 Punjabi Speaking Women’s Group – Contact birmingham@uksobs.org or 07376 303 438 Text SHOUT to 85258 (https://giveusashout.org/about-us/about-shout/) https://giveusashout.org/about-us/about-shout/ Samaritans: (http://www.samaritans.org/) 0845 7909090 24 hour helpline support for those experiencing distress, despair and/or suicidal feelings LGBT Foundation: (http://lgbt.foundation/)  – 0845 3 30 30 30 or 0161 235 8035 (10am-10pm, daily) Helpline run by Lesbian and gay health charity. Email: info@lgbt.foundation (mailto:info@lgbt.foundation) Hopeline UK  https://www.papyrus-uk.org/ (https://www.papyrus-uk.org/) Support for under 35’s at risk of suicide  0800 068 4141 Crisis Messenger A free, confidential 24/7 text service. Text IUCS to 85258

3. 

   14 Nov 2021

   In Conversation with Andrea

   As part of Trans Awareness Week, we have created a series of short videos from people within the trans and non binary community talking about their positive and negative life  experiences and have created this episode of A Big Mouthful to discuss Andrea's life experiences of being a queer trans woman. Please contact A Big Mouthful with any feedback, requests, suggestions or to be involved in an episode. Email: abigmouthful1@gmail.com Don't forget to subscribe to A Big Mouthful Podcasts. To see our videos for Trans Awareness Week, go to Instagram: a_big_mouthful or YouTube: A Big Mouthful or Twitter: @Mouthfulbig Here are some links below that you might find useful. outReach Cumbria http://www.outreachcumbria.org.uk/ Transactual https://www.transactual.org.uk/ Just Like Us https://www.justlikeus.org/ Mermaids https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/ LGBT Foundation https://lgbt.foundation/who-we-help/trans-people/resources-for-trans-people Transunite https://www.transunite.co.uk/ Supporting trans women in domestic and sexual violence services https://www.stonewall.org.uk/supporting-trans-women-domestic-and-sexual-violence-services Coming Out - A guide for young trans people. https://www.lgbtyouth.org.uk/media/1054/coming-out-guide-for-t-people.pdf Email: abigmouthful1@gmail.com Twitter: @Mouthfulbig Instagram: a_big_mouthful YouTube: A Big Mouthful