Ep 179: Dr Mark Cross

Summary: <p>​Dr Mark Cross (<a href="https://twitter.com/DrMCross" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@DrMCross</a>) is a psychiatrist, author, television presenter and fellow board member of SANE Australia.</p> <p>For many years he ran the youth ward at Campbelltown Hospital in Sydney, however he’s moved on from that to focus on other things.</p> <p>He’s best known in Australia for his SBS TV show “Changing Minds”, which worked to destigmatize community attitudes to mental illness - and he produced a book of the same name.</p> <p>Mark and I sit together on the board of SANE Australia which works to help more than 4 four million people in Australia who are affected by complex mental illness including OCD, borderline personality disorder, bipolar, PTSD, eating disorders and schizophrenia.</p> <p>I’m grateful to be a part of the board there, and relish working alongside Mark and other board members to help change attitudes in our society about complex mental illness, and help show that a diagnosis does not necessarily mean you’re a danger to yourself and others - and that a rich and full life is indeed still available for you.</p> <p>Mark has a fascinating story, and I’m grateful he took the time to speak with me and indeed to be so open with his story.</p> <p>Come and sit as Mark and I pick away at the last of the catering left after a board meeting, and enjoy a chat in a boardroom in Paddington Sydney on a blue autumn afternoon.</p>