Comedian Youngmi Mayer on Cultural Dissonance, Depression, Anxiety, Trauma, and Barry Gibb
Youngmi Mayer says she hates doing research but, in our conversation and in her new memoir I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying, she does a lot of digging into the events of her life and what they all mean...
11 Marras 202444min
13 Reasons For Hope in Mental Health
This episode of our show is premiering the day before Election Day in the U.S. and loads of people are just a mess with worry and anxiety. We don’t know the future and we’re not a politics show but we...
4 Marras 202441min
Mysterious Cancellations Block Veterans’ Mental Health Care
Imagine serving your country in the military, incurring some trauma and some mental health difficulties, and then finding that your appointments to get mental health treatment keep getting canceled wi...
28 Loka 202439min
The Promising World of Precision Treatment for Depression
If you’ve ever tried to treat major depressive disorder, you know that it can be absolutely exhausting. That’s because for a long time the approach has been one of trial and error, taking a certain me...
21 Loka 202443min
Bishop Briggs on Loss, Despair, and Finding Hope
Singer/songwriter Bishop Briggs lost her sister, her best friend, her roommate, and her manager all on one day in January 2021. They were all the same person. After Kate’s death, swiftly following her...
14 Loka 202444min
Dr. Jessi Gold and the Precarious Mental Health of the Medical Profession
How Do You Feel? is the title of Dr. Jessi Gold’s new memoir about her life as a psychiatrist dealing with her own mental health and the health of other medical providers during the first wave of the ...
7 Loka 202447min
Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart on Charting a Healing Path from Trauma
Xiu Xiu, the highly experimental avant-garde rock band from California has just released their 14th album, 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips. It refers to a type of switchblade...
30 Syys 202444min
Zac Carper of FIDLAR on Bipolar, Drugs, Meds, and Intense Journaling
Zac Carper, lead singer and guitarist for the garage punk bad FIDLAR, is very familiar with one kind of drugs: the street substances of meth, heroin, and crack that he engaged in heavily when he was y...
23 Syys 202443min
