Two Truths To Make 2026 a Better Mental Health Year
We live in complicated times and, for a whole lot of us, we do so with complicated minds. A billion people worldwide are living with some form of mental illness and 20% of the U.S. population has expe...
5 Tammi 41min
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
Anger: Let’s Talk About It, Learn About It, Not Fear It, Use It For Good
Anger can be a scary topic for a lot of people. It usually doesn’t feel good when you’re experiencing it and it can be associated with behaviors that are very frightening indeed. But Dr. Ryan Martin, ...
15 Joulu 202546min
Unemployment Hurts Mental Health, Horror Movies Might Help It. Really!
It’s very easy to associate your job with your own sense of self. So it makes that it can be traumatic to be one of the scores of people being laid off in today’s turbulent economy. We are joined by t...
8 Joulu 202535min
Maureen Johnson Became Friends with Her Anxiety Monster
Maureen Johnson loves mysteries. Loves reading classic detective fiction and loves writing mystery stories, which young readers have been gobbling up for years. Some of Maureen’s stories feature teena...
1 Joulu 202545min
A Holiday Family Survival Mini-sode
Yes, the holidays are upon us. Getting together with family can be a wonderful, loving experience. It can also be a lot. There can be old grudges, chafing at family roles, the specter of politics migh...
26 Marras 202518min
Esmé Weijun Wang’s Mind Convinced Her She Was Dead and In the Afterlife
Cotard’s delusion, also known as Cotard’s syndrome, is an extremely rare condition where the patient believes that they are actually dead. For the bestselling author Esmé Weijun Wang, Cotard’s came al...
24 Marras 20251h 1min
