Ment-ally There

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Your mind is not the enemy, even when it's keeping you up at 10pm running the same conversation for the hundredth time. This one reframes the whole thing: anxiety isn't something wrong with you, it's a signal trying to tell you something. Psychologist Dr Marny Lishman talks to Maddie about what anxiety actually looks like in a teenage girl, often disguised as people-pleasing, overthinking, or just being really good at holding it together; why the mental load women carry starts years earlier than anyone admits; why no is a full sentence, why rest isn't a luxury but an essential, and how to tell a rough patch apart from something that needs real support — including what to actually say to a parent, teacher or GP when you don't have the words yet. Because your mind was never the enemy.

Chapters

• 0:00Meet Dr Marny Lishman
• 1:09Speak Up, Don't Be So Quiet
• 2:03What Anxiety Looks Like In A Teenage Girl
• 3:10The Tangled Christmas Lights Of A Woman's Mind
• 4:26People-Pleasing And Holding It All Together
• 6:09What Anxiety Does Inside Your Body
• 7:50Fight, Flight Or Freeze
• 9:43Stress Versus Anxiety
• 12:32What Leads To A Panic Attack
• 14:20Anxiety, Your Cycle And Becoming A Detective
• 17:26Why Self-Awareness Can't Wait
• 18:26The Invisible Mental Load Starts Young
• 22:19Why Your Brain Needs Boredom
• 26:35Train Your Brain, Take Back Control
• 28:01Rest Is Not A Luxury
• 30:11Saying What You Need, And Parents Who Listen
• 32:52The Stories An Anxious Mind Tells
• 33:41What Resilience Really Is
• 38:10Storms, Dips And Getting Wiser
• 44:02What To Say When You Don't Have The Words
• 46:54Are Schools Doing Enough?
• 47:19Questions From The Panel
• 54:07Rapid Fire Questions
• 55:25What Marny Is Still Learning
• 55:53Wrap Up

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