Nicola Thorp Talks About Mental Health As We Remember Presenter Caroline Flack | This Morning

We're discussing the topics that have you all talking today, we're joined by Nicola Thought and after you write, welcome to lean in, obviously the story that you're all talking about and have been talking about since Saturday night is the very, very sad news that Caroline Flack has taken her life, what were your first thoughts Nicola when you heard

this

? I mean, I was with a group of friends and we're all pretty open about talking about our

mental

health

issues and yeah, the mood was very somber, I think probably also because it didn't necessarily surprise us because look what you know, the focus of care that was being placed on

this

woman and in a reasonably obvious way through CPS due to alleged assault charges etc., but everything else that adds to that now, my peer group I have.

I experienced, you know, attempted suicide, suicidal thoughts, etc., yourself, yes, in 2012, and it was right when people close to me knew what was happening now and thought that anyone in the world could find out details of that level of my personal life just by going on the Internet and searching with me and commenting on it is very, very difficult and what we have to

remember

is that a lot of people say: you know well, she played the game, she was in the public eye now everyone is in the public eye today. in terms of social media, they were all searchable and I firmly believe that victims of domestic violence should not be named in the press and in fact I don't think there are many cases for the alleged accuser who would be the alleged perpetrator to be named. in the press because of the stress and

mental

health

issue that comes with celebrity Mathew, didn't they call the police?

None of us know exactly what they found and what happened. A bit of speculation, but that's it. to be informed if you are in the public eye. I am generally with Nicola. I don't have many problems with CPS. It is ridiculous for people to make accusations against the CPS when they themselves have not seen all the evidence. that the CPS can have a mass, so I think we have to Park. I share many of the opinions we heard from Emma Jones. In fact, you know we had a Leveson inquiry partly because of the excesses of the press.

The Inquirer entered two parts, the first part was only half accepted and the second part was totally ignored by the really price part. I have part of the problem for you and now I would like to see myself as part of the solution. I think that certain newspapers, like some of the who have already been named about her death, we are writing articles about her and simultaneously putting up boxes about caring for her mental health and I think there is a disconnect, whether consciously or unconsciously, in the newspapers that somehow I think can be defended mental health by putting up helpline numbers and at the same time ruling people out, but how much of a game changer is social media?

We're interested in representing public sentiment, but in reality public sentiment is as divided on that as it is on everything else. They are very selective about whose side, essentially it's just an extension of what the press is publishing. Anyway, yes, that immediate feedback is done. I mean, I was horrified by some of the things I read this

morning

, including copying things about her mental health, blaming her mental health for what happened to her, and I think that's worth saying because maybe I have the platform. do it, but depression is not always this unfortunate suicide is not always something so prolonged and premeditated it can be something that many people say that she chose to end her life is not a choice suicide is something that happens when you have no other option and It can happen like that and that's scary, I think you don't have a choice, but I just the size, just the people were left behind like you say, so many people loved you, yes you had a choice.

You could have called me Google mom, yes, and her, and she had even talked to herself about the fact that she felt like a burden and I think it's worth letting people know that that's what's going on in Google's head. someone suffering from mental health problems. you feel like they are a burden to you