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
Alex Edelman on ADHD, Grief, Infiltrating White Nationalists, and The Paper
Alex Edelman loves going to concerts but admits that he usually goes solo. That’s because his ADHD leads Alex to show up pretty late to the show and he often spends part of it on the stairs writing so...
8 Sep 202554min
Better Home Design for Better Mental Health with Dr. Beverly Walpole
If you’re looking for a calm mind, do you love a room with little or nothing in it? Or do you need to be wall-to-ceiling with mementos and objects and stuff to give you a sense of peace? We take a loo...
1 Sep 202540min
Denise Winkelman: Comedian/Trans Woman/Former Pro Wrestler/Chronic Pain Sufferer
When she was growing up in conservative, evangelical rural Minnesota, she knew. When she was excelling at sports, giving and receiving body slams and folding chair hits as a pro wrestler, she knew. Ev...
25 Aug 202554min
Ashly Burch Delivers Mental Health Insight Using Puppets and Swear Words
There are plenty of places online to get very serious information on mental health, delivered in tones that are somber, sober, or very dry. Ashly Burch goes a different route on her new YouTube show, ...
18 Aug 202549min
Author/Comedian Tiffany Jenkins on Anxiety, Addiction, Felonies, Success, and Not Wanting to Exist
Because she racks up millions and millions of views for her viral comedy videos on social media, because she’s written two books including the new best-seller A Clean Mess: A Memoir of Sobriety After ...
11 Aug 202554min
We Have Two Guests This Week: Comedian Aaron Foster and His Depression
If you’ve dealt with depression, you know that it’s a disorder that speaks to you, firing off insults and terrible idea, often right in the middle of a conversation. Barges in to tear you down. We all...
4 Aug 202546min
