Seasonal Affective Disorder and Why It Sucks So Bad
When we went looking for information on the condition known as seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, one of the first things we noticed was that some people aren’t even calling it that anymore. The web...
3 Nov 202541min
Is Whiteness a Mental Health Problem? Dr. Jonathan Mathias Lassiter Thinks So.
It’s a question we ask a lot on this show: do you have a mental health problem or is the problem actually rooted in the world you live in? Psychologist Dr. Jonathan Mathias Lassiter says contemporary ...
27 Okt 202548min
Is the U.S. Government Going To Take Away Your Antidepressants?
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, clearly does not like SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), the most popular form of antidepressant on the market. They’r...
20 Okt 202542min
P.E. Moskowitz on Whether Your Mind is Broken or the World Is
During the violent Charlottesville protests of 2017, journalist and author P.E. Moskowitz was only a few feet away when Heather Heyer was killed by an attacking motorist. 16 years earlier, P.E. was in...
13 Okt 202556min
Kendall Toole Gets Knocked Down, Never Knocked Out
If you are one of the many subscribers to the Peloton exercise/media network, you may already be familiar with Kendall Toole. For many years, she was one of the stars of Peloton, exhorting users to pu...
6 Okt 202542min
Bruce Springsteen as Over-The-Counter Depression Treatment
At age 59, Anne Abel had never been to a concert. Ever. Music wasn’t part of her upbringing, although emotional abuse and belittlement from her parents absolutely were. Reluctantly agreeing to join he...
29 Sep 202547min
Emma Swift Had a Complete Mental Breakdown. Found Health. Made Music About It.
While the acclaimed musician Emma Swift had experienced painful periods of depression in the past, fed by grief or the first Trump presidency, her psychotic break and mental breakdown in 2023 was new ...
22 Sep 202547min
Sycophantic Chatbots and Alarming Cases of “AI Psychosis”
Are ChatGPT and other AI chatbots inducing psychosis? Or exacerbating it? Are people being hospitalized or even killed because the bots seem too human, too understanding, too lifelike? To be clear, th...
15 Sep 202550min
