15 Dec 2018

A powerful account of mental illness: No Feeling Is Final

From The Podcast Hour, 12:50 pm on 15 December 2018
No Feeling Is Final logo (Supplied)

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In 'No Feeling is Final ' from the ABC the writer and podcaster Honor Eastly presents a highly personal account of her experiences of living with anxiety and suicidal thoughts.

To repeat the warning that Honor gives her listeners before each episode, her story touches on 'heavy lifting feelings territory including what it's like to feel so hopeless that you want to die'.

The show weaves together years' worth of audio diaries with scripted narrative and recreations of scenes from her past. It creates a moving memoir about mental health that's difficult and heartbreaking and confronting at times, but also speaks powerfully and with humour about the experience of living with a cruel voice in your head that's always trying to put you down.

We play some of Episode 1 of 'No Feeling Is Final' from the ABC called The Voice presented by Honor Eastly, produced by Alice Moldovan, the sound engineer's Russell Stapleton, and the Executive Producer is Joel Werner.