SPECIAL EPISODE: Mental Health and ICE in Minnesota
The ICE surge in Minnesota has meant a huge number of arrests, protests, confrontations, deportations, children and adults sent to detention facilities, and deaths. It’s also meant massive anxiety, fe...
6 Helmi 23min
Amanda Knox on Facing Her Prosecutor, Her Past, Her Trauma, and Her Future
In 2007, Amanda Knox, an American studying abroad in Italy, was arrested, tried, and convicted of the murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher. After years in an Italian jail, she was ultimately freed...
2 Helmi 54min
Intentionally Blunt and Very Useful Talk About Suicide with Clancy Martin
Suicide is a problem. It’s perpetually a top cause of death around the world but society shames it, stigmatizes it, and is reluctant to discuss it even when talking about it would save lives. Well gue...
26 Tammi 1h 3min
Stephanie Foo on Complex PTSD, Finding Recovery, and This American Life
It was several years into her talk therapy sessions that Stephanie Foo was offered a diagnosis: complex post-traumatic stress disorder, or C-PTSD. Regular PTSD stems from a single traumatic event like...
19 Tammi 52min
A.J. Daulerio on Bipolar, Substances, Depression, Suicide, and the Psychic Weight of Hulk Hogan
A.J. Daulerio exists as a caricature to a lot of people because he was the guy who published a clip from a Hulk Hogan sex tape on Gawker, got sued by Hogan, and he and Gawker lost to the tune of a $14...
12 Tammi 58min
Mike Doughty Was Recently Hospitalized for Depression Twice. It Helped.
It was two years into a vicious cycle of depression and Mike Doughty was falling apart. He was taking more Ambien than he had been prescribed, importing huge boxes of the stuff from India, waking up t...
29 Joulu 202545min
Tom Johnson Advised LBJ, Ran CNN, and Drove Himself to Severe Depression
The intriguing memoir Tom Johnson recently released is called Driven: A Life in Public Service from LBJ to CNN and it’s full of amazing anecdotes. Tom joined the White House in his early twenties, was...
22 Joulu 202540min
