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
Seasonal Affective Disorder and Why It Sucks So Bad
When we went looking for information on the condition known as seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, one of the first things we noticed was that some people aren’t even calling it that anymore. The web...
3 Nov 202541min
Is Whiteness a Mental Health Problem? Dr. Jonathan Mathias Lassiter Thinks So.
It’s a question we ask a lot on this show: do you have a mental health problem or is the problem actually rooted in the world you live in? Psychologist Dr. Jonathan Mathias Lassiter says contemporary ...
27 Okt 202548min
Is the U.S. Government Going To Take Away Your Antidepressants?
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, clearly does not like SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), the most popular form of antidepressant on the market. They’r...
20 Okt 202542min
