Alison Rosen on Postpartum Depression, the Anxiety of Scales, and Best Friendship
Alison Rosen cautions us to not read too much into the title of her show. It’s really just an expression that was popular in slang vernacular a few years ago when the podcast started. Besides, if ever...
4 Okt 202154min
Janet Varney Wasn’t In Being John Malkovich. But She Lived It.
Podcast listeners know Janet from the JV Club podcast here on Maximum Fun. Television audiences know her from You’re The Worst and Stan Against Evil, among many other credits. And fans of live comedy ...
27 Sep 202155min
Movies and TV Shows That Get Mental Illness Right and Some That Get It Wrong
We’ve all seen screen portrayals of people with mental illnesses and we’ve all seen ones that miss the mark pretty badly. Someone has a vague sense of “crazy” about them so they turn into an evil sadi...
20 Sep 202149min
Jackie Kashian Did What You Should Do
Therapy isn’t about hating your mother. It’s not about crying over something that happened when you were six and then dwelling on it for the rest of your life. And the difficulty or trauma you faced b...
13 Sep 202156min
School is Starting, Kids are Psychologically Messed Up, and We All Need to Help
COVID has been traumatic for young people. For a year and a half now, it’s either been impossible to go to school or the place that they go to doesn’t match what they used to know as school. The virus...
6 Sep 202148min
Meditation is Good and Helpful and Doesn’t Require All That Woo-Woo Mysticism
When we asked Dr. Darshan Mehta, Medical Director of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine in Boston and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, about the image probl...
30 Aug 202155min
Tuca & Bertie’s Lisa Hanawalt on Depression, Anxiety, Panic Attacks, and Funneling All That Knowledge Into Cartoon Birds
The first thing that I noticed when watching Tuca & Bertie was that there was a LOT going on. Bertie is frantically trying to navigate her magazine job at Conde Nest AND her dream of being professiona...
23 Aug 202158min
How to Express Concern About Someone’s Mental Health and When to Shut Up About It
It’s tricky. That’s what we found when we set out to answer a question we get a lot: “How do I approach a loved one who I’m worried about in terms of mental health?” Obviously, you want to let them kn...
16 Aug 202140min
