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Debra Gordon

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Get Off Our Lawn - CF Masters

David Woods

Jessica Martin

Anne Janzer

Blair Thielemier

Sean Rockett

Freddy Camacho

Lori Alexander

Janice Hurley

Eric Metcalf

Jennifer Kelly

Ginny Vachon

Kristine Scruggs

Chrystie Leonard

Amy Tippins

Stacy Matthews

OwlTail

Josh Inman

Welcome to Episode 7 of Get off our lawn, the CF Masters group podcast. This week we have a very, very, very important topic and we have a couple of great friends and members of the group joining us. We’re talking about Mental Health. You might ask - What does that have to do with Crossfit? And that’s a great question because, for a lot of folks, mental health has nothing to do with Crossfit. For a few of us, however, Crossfit is a part of the puzzle that keeps us healthy both mentally and physically. This week, Angela and I were incredibly lucky to have a couple of great guests. Josh Inman and Debra Gordon. Josh recently started CF Masters Strong group on Facebook. This group is a forum where people can share their challenges with mental health, maybe see some folks in similar situations, and just have an area to know that we are not alone. We also have Debra Gordon, a long time member of CF Masters. Debra reached out a month or so ago to ask if we could do a Get Off Our Lawn episode on mental health and depression. Debra has lived with depression for decades and wanted to share her story, and how Crossfit has helped her. To be honest, it wasn’t clear if we should cover this topic because it’s very, very serious for people, and we wanted to do it justice. We hope that we did. First off, the reason we are doing this episode is to help, even in a miniscule way, to chip away at the stigma of mental health. If you are in the United States, and you or a person close to you needs help or needs to talk about suicide, Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at  1-800-273-8255 If you are not in the United States, and many of our listeners are not, please look for your local suicide prevention service. Maybe a few of us grew up differently, but most of us in our age group grew up in an era where mental health was shunned, shamed, and pushed into a corner. People who were depressed needed to “suck it up” and “get over it.” Sure, we never told a cancer patient, “it’s your fault you know. If you had taken better care of yourself you wouldn’t have gotten breast cancer.” But we did tend to think that about people with mental health issues. Now it’s time to change that. Mental Health IS health. Also - NOTHING in this episode is prescriptive. Josh and Debra are here to share their experiences, where they are today, and what got them here. These are their stories as they have lived them. None of this information is meant to be used as treatment or therapy. If you have mental health issues PLEASE seek out a trained professional. If you are thinking about self-harm please call a Suicide prevention hotline. We are here today to share that everyone can be susceptible to mental health issues just like everyone can be susceptible to being in a car crash or getting a sinus infection. Also, please note that we are talking as friends here. We are not mental health professionals, we don’t know all the right terms, and we might say the wrong thing. Please understand that everything we talk about is said from a good place. If we mislabel a condition, or if we use a word that is no longer acceptable - we are old and set in our ways - while we are also learning. Let us know in the comments any place where we should have used different words. For the podcast. Please share this with anyone or any group you think may be interested. Also, please Like and give us a 5-star review on your podcast app. And don’t forget - Mental Health IS health.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/cf-masters/message

Welcome to Episode 7 of Get off our lawn, the CF Masters group podcast. This week we have a very, very, very important topic and we have a couple of great friends and members of the group joining us. We’re talking about Mental Health. You might ask - What does that have to do with Crossfit? And that’s a great question because, for a lot of folks, mental health has nothing to do with Crossfit. For a few of us, however, Crossfit is a part of the puzzle that keeps us healthy both mentally and physically. This week, Angela and I were incredibly lucky to have a couple of great guests. Josh Inman and Debra Gordon. Josh recently started CF Masters Strong group on Facebook. This group is a forum where people can share their challenges with mental health, maybe see some folks in similar situations, and just have an area to know that we are not alone. We also have Debra Gordon, a long time member of CF Masters. Debra reached out a month or so ago to ask if we could do a Get Off Our Lawn episode on mental health and depression. Debra has lived with depression for decades and wanted to share her story, and how Crossfit has helped her. To be honest, it wasn’t clear if we should cover this topic because it’s very, very serious for people, and we wanted to do it justice. We hope that we did. First off, the reason we are doing this episode is to help, even in a miniscule way, to chip away at the stigma of mental health. If you are in the United States, and you or a person close to you needs help or needs to talk about suicide, Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at  1-800-273-8255 If you are not in the United States, and many of our listeners are not, please look for your local suicide prevention service. Maybe a few of us grew up differently, but most of us in our age group grew up in an era where mental health was shunned, shamed, and pushed into a corner. People who were depressed needed to “suck it up” and “get over it.” Sure, we never told a cancer patient, “it’s your fault you know. If you had taken better care of yourself you wouldn’t have gotten breast cancer.” But we did tend to think that about people with mental health issues. Now it’s time to change that. Mental Health IS health. Also - NOTHING in this episode is prescriptive. Josh and Debra are here to share their experiences, where they are today, and what got them here. These are their stories as they have lived them. None of this information is meant to be used as treatment or therapy. If you have mental health issues PLEASE seek out a trained professional. If you are thinking about self-harm please call a Suicide prevention hotline. We are here today to share that everyone can be susceptible to mental health issues just like everyone can be susceptible to being in a car crash or getting a sinus infection. Also, please note that we are talking as friends here. We are not mental health professionals, we don’t know all the right terms, and we might say the wrong thing. Please understand that everything we talk about is said from a good place. If we mislabel a condition, or if we use a word that is no longer acceptable - we are old and set in our ways - while we are also learning. Let us know in the comments any place where we should have used different words. For the podcast. Please share this with anyone or any group you think may be interested. Also, please Like and give us a 5-star review on your podcast app. And don’t forget - Mental Health IS health.--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/cf-masters/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/cf-masters/message</a>

Episode 7 - Mental Health is Health, with Josh Inman and Debra Gordon

Learn more about Debra at http://debragordon.com/  Debra Gordon, MS is a seasoned healthcare communications professional who specializes in speaking, teaching, and communicating about various clinical topics and the US healthcare system, healthcare reform, and health policy. Debra started her company in 1999. Previously, she was a newspaper reporter for The Virginian Pilot in Norfolk, Va., and the Orange Country Register in southern California, where she covered health and medicine. While at the Pilot, she was one of six journalists around the country awarded the prestigious Kaiser Family Foundation Media Fellowship, which enabled her to spend a year researching and learning about health policy issues. Debra is also the author, co-author, or ghostwriter of more than a dozen health-related books. Debra specializes in writing medical content for clinicians; consumer-facing health-related content; and business-to-business content for companies in the healthcare space. She covers medical meetings for clients, is an in-demand speaker on various topics related to healthcare reform, and conducts webinars on a variety of topics related to freelancing, writing, and health care. Debra lives and works in Williamsburg where she shares an office with her husband, Keith, and her lap dog, Jessie. She and Keith have three children

Learn more about Debra at <a href="http://debragordon.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://debragordon.com/</a> Debra Gordon, MS is a seasoned healthcare communications professional who specializes in speaking, teaching, and communicating about various clinical topics and the US healthcare system, healthcare reform, and health policy. Debra started her company in 1999. Previously, she was a newspaper reporter for The Virginian Pilot in Norfolk, Va., and the Orange Country Register in southern California, where she covered health and medicine. While at the Pilot, she was one of six journalists around the country awarded the prestigious Kaiser Family Foundation Media Fellowship, which enabled her to spend a year researching and learning about health policy issues. Debra is also the author, co-author, or ghostwriter of more than a dozen health-related books. Debra specializes in writing medical content for clinicians; consumer-facing health-related content; and business-to-business content for companies in the healthcare space. She covers medical meetings for clients, is an in-demand speaker on various topics related to healthcare reform, and conducts webinars on a variety of topics related to freelancing, writing, and health care. Debra lives and works in Williamsburg where she shares an office with her husband, Keith, and her lap dog, Jessie. She and Keith have three children

1-Debra Gordon, MS--Seasoned Medical Writer and Teacher