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Back to SearchJackie Kashian Did What You Should Do
Episode 26
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 …
4 years, 11 months ago
School is Starting, Kids are Psychologically Messed Up, and We All Need to Help
Episode 25
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’…
4 years, 11 months ago
Meditation is Good and Helpful and Doesn’t Require All That Woo-Woo Mysticism
Episode 24
When we asked Dr. Darshan Mehta, Medical Director of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine in Boston and an Assistant Professor of Medici…
5 years ago
Tuca & Bertie’s Lisa Hanawalt on Depression, Anxiety, Panic Attacks, and Funneling All That Knowledge Into Cartoon Birds
Episode 23
The first thing that I noticed when watching Tuca & Bertie was that there was a LOT going on. Bertie is frantically trying to navigate her magazine j…
5 years ago
How to Express Concern About Someone’s Mental Health and When to Shut Up About It
Episode 22
It’s tricky. That’s what we found when we set out to answer a question we get a lot: “How do I approach a loved one who I’m worried about in terms of…
5 years ago
Griffin Newman with Co-Stars Depression, Anxiety, Comedy, Lousy Bikes, The Tick, Kevin Costner, and Woody Allen
Episode 21
You’ll notice that this episode is longer than most of our episodes. That’s just the way it tends to go with Griffin Newman. Episodes of his own podc…
5 years ago
Song Imploder with A.C. Newman of The New Pornographers feat. Anxiety and Depression
Episode 20
In this Song Imploder edition of our show (borrowing a format from the podcast Song Exploder), Carl (who records as A.C.) Newman walks us through “Wh…
5 years ago
Depression, Anxiety, and Devil Horns: Chelsea Ursin Saves Her Soul with Rock n’ Roll
Episode 19
Rock music isn’t a cure for depression or anxiety. You can’t wail away on “Smoke on the Water” and have all your mental difficulties melt away. That …
5 years, 1 month ago
Kelly Williams Brown Has Bad Times With Mental Health, Physical Health, and Marriage But Better Times With Crafts
Episode 18
You can tell a lot about Kelly Williams Brown’s life by looking at her multiple bowls of tiny origami. Her “lucky stars” are folded in a pattern that…
5 years, 1 month ago
“Hey, Topics! You’re Not So Tough! Wait! Ow! Yes You Are!” with Anna Sale
Episode 17
It’s much easier to talk about the weather than it is about mental health. We all know this. Because it’s a lot easier to face the idea of a rainy da…
5 years, 1 month ago