Ethan Sacks and Daughter Naomi Tackle Mental Health in Comics Form with A Haunted Girl
Ethan Sacks is a veteran comics writer, having created stories for Marvel, DC, and numerous Star Wars comics. In the comic A Haunted Girl, Ethan enlisted his daughter Naomi as co-writer to tell a stor...
26 Touko 202545min
Felicia Day on Depression, Anxiety, Achievement, Burnout, and Failed Prodigies
It would take an entire section of show notes here to list all the things Felicia Day has accomplished in her career. Here’s an attempt at making that brief: acted in a bunch of TV shows you know, cre...
19 Touko 202544min
The Head And The Heart’s Kenny Hensley Injured Both Shoulders and That’s Where the Trouble Started
Aperture is the sixth studio album by the indie-folk band The Head And The Heart and it’s kind of a return to the more grounded, collaborative sound of their earliest work. It’s less polished, less hi...
12 Touko 202541min
988’s Future, Funding, and Online Fables
There have been ten million contacts, via phone calls, texts, and chats, with the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline since it first launched in July of 2022. As its third anniversary approaches, we check i...
5 Touko 202538min
Generative AI Chatbot Delivers Great Results for Mental Health. Is “Therabot” the Future?
Would you open your heart to a bot? Tell it all your problems? Look to a piece of code, a computer program, for high-quality mental healthcare? Some people have said yes and the results are hard to ig...
28 Huhti 202547min
Perfectly Hidden Depression: Do You Have It? With Dr. Margaret Rutherford
If you were brought up in a family or a culture that never recognized, discussed, or processed things like depression and trauma, you may have learned to simply hide those difficult feelings away and ...
21 Huhti 202548min
Cameron Esposito on Comedy, Rehab, and Bipolar Disorder
Cameron Esposito has many titles: hugely successful standup comedian, actor in television and film, writer, podcast host. After a recent rehab stay led to a mental health diagnosis, she has realized t...
14 Huhti 202544min
The Thorny Issue of Airline Pilots and Mental Illness
Statistics say that 23% of Americans are currently living with some form of mental illness. For most people, that calls for reaching out for help and receiving treatment and advice on management. But ...
7 Huhti 202537min
