Harriet Dyer

Welcome to episode 137 With Harriet Dyer, who is a stand up comedian, writer and mental health advocate.

Growing up, Harriet just thought that she was just eccentric but as she got older, and people kept trying to have her sectioned, she came to realise that there might be more going on.

She would eventually be diagnosed with bipolar and has incorporated her experiences with mental illness in to her comedy ever since.

In this episode I chat to Harriet about the fine line between being eccentric and mentally ill and we talk about some of the experiences that led to her diagnosis and performing stand up about it.

We chat about mental health in the world of comedy, making mental illness funny and the different ways that people react and we chat about her award-winning mental health comedy night, Barking Tales, and how that came to be.

I also highly recommend the Make Me Better podcast that Harriet co-hosts with Louise Young where they try out different self-improvement fads to see if anything makes them less insane and we chat about some of the things Harriet has tried in this episode too.

It was so much fun to chat to Harriet and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

You can learn more about Harriet and her Barking Tales comedy night via her website www.harrietdyer.com.

Follow her on social media @harrietdyercomedy and @makemebetterpod

Make Me Better is available on all podcast platforms

You can watch her special Trigger Warning here: Harriet Dyer: Trigger Warning - YouTube

You can connect with me on social media @propermentalpodcast or via www.propermentalpodcast.com.

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