{"id":311413,"date":"2025-08-02T08:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/311413\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T08:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:08:11","slug":"anonymous-voice-note-sharing-site-to-cut-mens-sense-of-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/311413\/","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":311414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-311413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114958152970763216","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}