Professor Jim Lucey on how we can foster hope through tough times
Updated / Thursday, 25 Feb 2021
16:09
is encouraging you to Take 5 For Your Mental Health every day.
A year into this pandemic, many of us are feeling flat, fatigued, and fed-up. There s light at the end of the tunnel, but the tunnel is long.
On today s episode, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at TCD, Consultant Psychiatrist at St. Patrick s University Hospital and author Professor Jim Lucey explains why we all need hope and how we can foster it.
To listen to the full episode of You OK? with Professor Lucey, click here.
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Professor Jim Lucey and I begin our Zoom call with me asking how he is. "Well," he says with a laugh, "it s a long story really." And we re off, embarked on an interview that is chatty, discursive, anecdotal, full of reminiscences from Lucey s 30-year career in medicine and psychiatry, all held together by discussion of his new book, A Whole New Plan For Living, written in response to the Covid crisis.