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A Mental Health Break
The #1 Mental Health Podcast: You are not alone. This show is here to help you on your journey through inspirational and authentic testimonials. This is the Top Weekly Mental Health Show and the Official Podcast for Mental Health Advocates. We normalize the conversation together.
This Top 10% Podcast provides a platform where people offer advice and share their vulnerable moments, life experiences, and stories. The Advocates and Professionals who have joined the show each week since January 2020 are committed to letting you know that YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
After Host Vincent A. Lanci survived a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), he began to share his story and utilize his knowledge and experience to help others.
There are many areas that are discussed each week. These topics include trauma recovery, confidence improvement, coping, mindfulness techniques, emotional intelligence, anxiety, depression, self harm, suicide, family challenges, feeling like no one understands you, social media addiction, life after divorce, mental health in the workplace, grieving, grief, and so many more.
The show also has conversations on mental disorders, Anxiety disorders, Bipolar disorder, Major depressive disorder, Eating disorder, Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Borderline personality disorder, Social anxiety disorder, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Attention deficit disorder (ADD), Panic disorder, Generalized anxiety disorder, Seasonal affective disorder, suicidal ideations, Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), phobia, Schizophrenia, and countless more.
Do you want to learn from people who have been in your shoes? Each guest is open to sharing an honest testimonial combined with tools they have learned along the way.
A Mental Health Break
#244: Celebrating 4 Years Since Chemo with TGH Brother Sean Barnette
Tune in to help us celebrate 4 years since his last chemo session. Host Vincent A. Lanci met today's guest through Tampa General Hospital. They take annual trips to the State Capitol yearly to share their stories. Today, you learn his. Welcome, Sean Barnette. He shares:
- His battle with cancer, throughout treatment and post-treatment.
- How that has affected not only physical health but also mental health, especially post-treatment.
- How being a young man has affected his journey in destigmatizing mental health.
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Sean Barnette (b. 2003) is an undergraduate at Florida State University studying Choral Music Education. In January 2020, Sean was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer in his left tibia and fibula, at age 16. Sean underwent nine months of intense chemotherapy and a limb salvage surgery in April 2020, where 13 centimeters of bone was removed and replaced with an endoprosthesis.
He has been involved with the Junior Advisory Board of the MIB Agents, the leading pediatric osteosarcoma research and nonprofit organization, a member of the Patient and Family Advisory Council at Tampa General Hospital, and the founder of the Harmonies for Health project, a series of charity concert to raise money for the Children Cancer Center in Tampa. Inspired by his battle with cancer, Sean believes in the transformative nature of music and hopes to inspire audiences through his composition and inspire his students as an educator.
Some additional areas of discussion:
- Making time for yourself
- Self-care checks throughout the day
- Planning, without planning
- Benefits of being in a community
- Knowing he's making a difference
- Favorite parts of We Are TGH Day in Tallahassee
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Episode Music Credits: Adventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyaden
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