John & Robert Bateman Interview and Anxiety Talk | Action Anxiety Day 2022

June 10, 2022, has been declared the 2nd World Anxiety Day, known as Action Anxiety Day - an annual awareness and education day created in Vancouver, British Columbia, by Anxiety Canada.
For our second annual Action Anxiety Day, we're bringing you special programming like this!
#AnxietyCanada Champion John Bateman shares his anxiety story and interviews his father, renowned artist Robert Bateman of the Bateman Foundation. Expect humour and heart from this father and son chat.
An Anxiety Canada #Champion is an individual who is passionate about mental health, shares our vision, and ‘champions’ our mission.⁠
John Bateman is a mental health advocate, author, comedian, and public speaker. And right now he’s at the top of the leaderboard on our personal challenge fundraising page!⁠ (DONATE to John's fundraising page here: fundraise.anxietycanada.com/p...)
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We appreciate John and Robert taking the time to share with us for #ActionAnxietyDay.
Our sponsors make vital contributions to make #ActionAnxietyDay a success.
Action Anxiety Day is supported by our generous sponsors, including Barb’s Bakery & Bistro on Salt Spring Island and the Bateman Foundation.
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John is also the host of our podcast, #OurAnxietyStories. The podcast features people from all walks of life and covers a variety of topics - generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety in children, perfectionism, and much more. Browse by category on our website: www.anxietycanada.com/ouranxi...
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Donate and learn more about John on his personal challenge page: fundraise.anxietycanada.com/p...
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#ACTonAnxiety
#AAD22 💙 🧡⁠

[@SteffichFineArt]

Inspiring!

[@AnxietyCanada]

Thank you so much for commenting! We appreciate your support. ✨😊

[@johnbateman-jbanxiety7020]

Thanks to the amazing people who make all this possible for me. This is a team effort all the way.

[@AnxietyCanada]

Thank you so much to you and your father for helping spread awareness and being advocates for mental health! #ACTonAnxiety 💙🧡🎉

[@JackLoreForrest]

Enjoyed this conversation and understand very well and all about Anxiety, plus I'm a great admirer of Robert Batemans art and also nice to see at the grand age of 92 looking very well!

[@SuperOlds88]

I can only dream of growing up with a father like Robert Bateman. Try growing up with a cross between, Hitler and devil, now we're talking anxiety. Happy you grew up with Robert Bateman.

[@avalonjustin]

I appreciate that John calls anxiety "Suffering", as it absolutely is. If you don't experience Generalized Anxiety, or know what panic attacks are like, you have no idea how debilitating they are.

[@h.b16]

This is true. Trying to explain my anxiety to some of my friends, I never have the right words. There are no words powerful enough to describe how my anxiety feels. I’ve had to go on disability because I can’t go to work.

[@jjusttandyy2019]

Thank you for sharing these moments with us. Lovely to watch this conversation between you two.

[@johnbateman-jbanxiety7020]

Thanks very much.

[@softybarb]

Thank you for doing this, it reminded me of conversations with my dad many years ago. I too suffer from anxiety and for so many years kept it hidden

[@johnbateman-jbanxiety7020]

Thank you Barbara. I'm happy this video helps people.

[@softybarb]

@@johnbateman-jbanxiety7020 how would we find out when your next interview takes place. I see there are three locations in the lower mainland. Unrelated but we have a hardcover book of Robert Bateman's artwork on our coffee table, it was wonderful to see he is still painting wildlife.

[@FuckAddiction.]

Procrastinate worrying! Love that, thank you for this interview ♥️

[@AnxietyCanada]

We’re so glad you enjoyed the video! #ActionAnxietyDay 💙🧡🎉

[@scetis]

Thanks so much for doing this John. I'm in Turkey right now and had a bad series of panic attacks. It was really hard coming to terms with my anxiety and how bad it is. One thing my counsellor had advised me to do was to start drawing again. In searching for 'how to sketch Robert Bateman' videos I came across this. I never thought I would find a video combining Robert Bateman and anxiety. Thanks for being so honest with your struggles as well!