Alexandra Savior on bipolar disorder and being discovered by Courtney Love
"Beneath the Lilypad" is singer-songwriter Alexandra Savior's third album, but her first in five years. Several years ago, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, type 1. That’s a condition marked wi...
16 Juni 202545min
You’re Not Imagining It, Climate Change IS Messing With Your Mental Health
As temperatures and sea levels rise, the effects of climate change are being felt in weather patterns, natural disasters, and in both public and personal mental health. We talk with Dr. Caroline Carne...
9 Juni 202540min
Can a Bipartisan Congressional Caucus Save Mental Health in America?
Rep. Andrea Salinas (D-Ore.) is one of four chairs of the bipartisan Mental Health Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, a 93-member group of Republicans and Democrats pledging to fight stigma,...
2 Juni 202552min
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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Apr 202547min
