Tom Johnson Advised LBJ, Ran CNN, and Drove Himself to Severe Depression
The intriguing memoir Tom Johnson recently released is called Driven: A Life in Public Service from LBJ to CNN and it’s full of amazing anecdotes. Tom joined the White House in his early twenties, was...
22 Dec 202540min
Anger: Let’s Talk About It, Learn About It, Not Fear It, Use It For Good
Anger can be a scary topic for a lot of people. It usually doesn’t feel good when you’re experiencing it and it can be associated with behaviors that are very frightening indeed. But Dr. Ryan Martin, ...
15 Dec 202546min
Unemployment Hurts Mental Health, Horror Movies Might Help It. Really!
It’s very easy to associate your job with your own sense of self. So it makes that it can be traumatic to be one of the scores of people being laid off in today’s turbulent economy. We are joined by t...
8 Dec 202535min
Maureen Johnson Became Friends with Her Anxiety Monster
Maureen Johnson loves mysteries. Loves reading classic detective fiction and loves writing mystery stories, which young readers have been gobbling up for years. Some of Maureen’s stories feature teena...
1 Dec 202545min
A Holiday Family Survival Mini-sode
Yes, the holidays are upon us. Getting together with family can be a wonderful, loving experience. It can also be a lot. There can be old grudges, chafing at family roles, the specter of politics migh...
26 Nov 202518min
Esmé Weijun Wang’s Mind Convinced Her She Was Dead and In the Afterlife
Cotard’s delusion, also known as Cotard’s syndrome, is an extremely rare condition where the patient believes that they are actually dead. For the bestselling author Esmé Weijun Wang, Cotard’s came al...
24 Nov 20251h 1min
Is Your Mental Health Diagnosis an Identity or Something More Meaningless?
You may find the charges in this episode jarring: depression is not the result of a chemical imbalance, SSRIs aren’t necessarily antidepressants, and the term you use for your mental health condition ...
17 Nov 202559min
The Personal Side of Huge Cuts to Addiction, Suicide Prevention, and Mental Health Programs
Over half the employees at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) who were there in January are now gone, include 12 of the 17 senior leaders. SAMHSA is in charge of di...
10 Nov 202537min
