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
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
