Stephanie Wittels Wachs and the Pain and Frustration of Watching Addiction Happen
Hi, folks. John Moe here. I knew about Stephanie Wittels Wachs for quite a while before I met her but correctly figured I’d get to know her one of these days. That’s because our stories have an awful ...
14 Jun 202153min
Bipolar 101: What It Is and What It Isn’t with Ana Marie Cox & Dr. Ken Duckworth
No, bipolar disorder doesn’t mean that you’re kind of cheerful one day and a little bit glum the next. Those are just moods. That’s not a disorder. The Mayo Clinic says of bipolar, “When you become de...
7 Jun 202145min
Pretty Sure Allison Raskin Knows More About OCD Than Khloé Kardashian
Allison Raskin has been attempting to manage her obsessive compulsive disorder for most of her life. It’s meant knowing when she can be home to take a shower during the day. It’s meant not being able ...
31 Mai 202144min
Jarrett Hill and the Quest for the Therapist Who Knows What You’re Talking About
Before he was a podcast host, radio personality, or a journalist breaking major political news, Jarrett Hill was a kid growing up gay in a religiously conservative environment. So when it was time to ...
24 Mai 202155min
Mental Health Care is On Screens For Good Now, Let’s Get Ready
The American mental health care system has had some very fundamental problems for a while now: there are too few therapists, way too few psychiatrists, and it all adds up to not enough people getting ...
17 Mai 202153min
Zach Kornfeld of The Try Guys, Ira Glass, and Rhett Miller Separately But Related By a Theme
Yeah, this became a pretty big show. Just kept filling up with more guests. It started with a conversation with Zach Kornfeld of The Try Guys, a YouTube comedy troupe that is preposterously famous and...
10 Mai 20211h 19min
Peter Sagal Has These New People In His House
Peter Sagal always sounds chipper and fun on the hit NPR quiz show Wait Wait Don't Tell Me but that's always been just one part of his personality. In recent years, Sagal went through a divorce that r...
3 Mai 20211h
What To Expect When The Virus Is Gone But COVID Trauma Goes On
Look, we’re all going to be messed up for a while from COVID. Some of us a lot, some of us a little, some for a very long time, others for not as long. But it’s trauma. It’s an event more powerful tha...
26 Apr 202151min
