Tom Scharpling on Suicidal Ideation, Depression, In-Patient Care, ECT, and Memory Loss
Within the comedy world, Tom Scharpling is known as a bit of a Swiss Army Knife. He’s the host of the long running Best Show, online now and on WFMU before that. He’s a veteran TV writer on shows like...
11 Okt 202155min
Six Things You Need To Know For Your Mental Health
World Mental Health Day is this coming weekend and Depresh Mode host John Moe is feeling a bit reflective. When your job involves talking about mental health all the time, every day is kind of World M...
8 Okt 202120min
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
