Mark Henick is a mental health activist and advocate, author, host and public speaker who has appeared on tv, radio and online podcasts on multiple occasions, he is especially well known for his popular TedX talk on YouTube which now has had more than 6 million views.

We talk about: Suicide, why some people choose it and how to avoid it, the meaning of life, public policy measures relating to suicide prevention, how we have a common flaw of identifying ourselves with our feelings, the important differences between the collective and the individual and the remarkable similarities between the failed war on drugs and the suicide numbers that represents a social failure.

Find more about Mark on: His Web Page, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube his podcast Living Well With Mark Henick

Buy his best-selling book So-Called Normal: A Memoir of Family, Depression and Resilience