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Back to SearchThe Personal Side of Huge Cuts to Addiction, Suicide Prevention, and Mental Health Programs
Episode 234
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 d…
Published on 9 hours ago
Seasonal Affective Disorder and Why It Sucks So Bad
Episode 137
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 we…
Published on 1 week ago
Is Whiteness a Mental Health Problem? Dr. Jonathan Mathias Lassiter Thinks So.
Episode 233
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…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Is the U.S. Government Going To Take Away Your Antidepressants?
Episode 232
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’…
Published on 3 weeks ago
P.E. Moskowitz on Whether Your Mind is Broken or the World Is
Episode 231
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 i…
Published on 4 weeks ago
Kendall Toole Gets Knocked Down, Never Knocked Out
Episode 230
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 p…
Published on 1 month ago
Bruce Springsteen as Over-The-Counter Depression Treatment
Episode 229
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 h…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Emma Swift Had a Complete Mental Breakdown. Found Health. Made Music About It.
Episode 228
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…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Sycophantic Chatbots and Alarming Cases of “AI Psychosis”
Episode 227
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, t…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Alex Edelman on ADHD, Grief, Infiltrating White Nationalists, and The Paper
Episode 226
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 s…
Published on 2 months ago