Tatton Spiller

Welcome to episode 121 with Tatton Spiller, who is the founder and director of Simple Politics, which is an online platform that aims to explain politics in a way that everyone can understand.

He previously worked as a teacher before starting Simple Politics in 2015.

Tatton has been interested in understanding politics from a young age and found campaigning to be a useful outlet for the anger he felt as a young man living with mental health conditions.

After going through a breakdown in 2014 Tatton would eventually be diagnosed with BPD and Bi-Polar Disorder with a little Depression and Anxiety sprinkled in for good measure.

In this episode we chat his early experiences with both politics and mental illness.

We chat about diagnosis, defining mental health, the good and bad bits of mental illness, music, literature and the chaos of keeping up with the news.

This is a wonderful conversation that goes absolutely everywhere except politics!

You can connect with Tatton via @simplepolitics or @tattonspiller.

Or stop by simplepolitics.co.uk or tattonspiller.co.uk

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