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Kyra Biddle

Centre manager at Dear Albert, a Leicester addiction recovery charity, who brings lived experience of homelessness and recovery and appeared on The Prescription Strength Podcast.

Sep 22, 2026

1:25
And yeah, over to you.
1:28
Thank you.
1:30
Sometimes it's a bit difficult where to start, but thank you for having me.
1:36
Pleasure.
1:38
I would say I've suffered with my mental health throughout my life.
1:45
I used to have counselling when I was about 14 and I had a great home life to begin with and unfortunately my dad suffered a mental breakdown and I know you won't mind me sharing this because we've had many chats about it and unfortunately we lost our house And so it ended up like my mum, my dad and myself, a house that we'd been in for like 13 years was just, the car as well was just taken from us.
2:20
And we just sort of stood there with bags thinking, well, that's 13 years of our lives.

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what's the best advice you could give to us as healthcare professionals from, from your standpoint?

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