{"id":41383,"date":"2025-08-02T08:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/41383\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T08:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:20:08","slug":"anonymous-voice-note-sharing-site-to-cut-mens-sense-of-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/41383\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous voice note sharing site to cut men&#8217;s sense of isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Human, 47, who works for a software company based in the Norwich, has been a life-long Canaries fan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has self-funded Say It Lad &#8211; which he came up with after a downturn in his own mental health &#8211; and is in the process of applying for community interest company status for the website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I had some crazy breakdown; it came out of nowhere,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was like one morning I woke up and someone flicked a switch. I was having suicidal thoughts. From being completely normal to having those feelings scared the life out of me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He found that cognitive behavioural therapy via the NHS was not for him: &#8220;All these people say &#8216;talk to me&#8217;, but you feel so alone at that point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With Say It Lad, I just wanted people to leave voice notes that I can put on a site and they can listen and relate&#8230; and feel &#8216;I&#8217;m not alone&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Human, 47, who works for a software company based in the Norwich, has been a life-long Canaries&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-41383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}