S5 E1: Dean Clarke - staying positive despite dealing with bipolar disorder, suicide & PTSD

If you saw Dean in the street you'd think OK big, strapping lad, 6’4”, looks good, great shape, oozes confidence, probably a bit arrogant, clearly has life sussed and is very happy.  Well that’s if if you went through life assuming and stereotyping anyway! (Let's NOT do that anyway, please!!) But either way... how wrong you would be. 
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Don’t get me wrong, he is some of the above. He is a 6’4 good looking, athletic gent but what you don’t ever know when you only look at the surface, it what is going on underneath. And for Dean, life isn't plain sailing.  Fobbed off by doctors his entire life he was told he  “just had PTSD like everyone else gets in the army – deal with it”.  Given zero support, it wasn’t until he tried to take his own life in 2017, that any serious help was given and finally – at the very late age of 29 a diagnosis of bipolar was given. 
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In this honest, raw episode, Dean bravely opens-up about his journey... and as a PT and Mental & physical coach and speaker, he shares what helps him get through life from day to day and his tool kit, and how he has learnt to face his demons head on and how he manages to deal with life on a day to day basis.
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He is so interesting that our chat went on well over my planned hour, but it was such  an open,  beneficial and insightful chat that it felt only right to let it continue.  I'm sure you'll agree. 

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