Podcast Episodes

Ginny & Georgia Creator Sarah Lampert on Getting Mental Health Right On Screen

Episode 216

Hollywood doesn’t exactly have a stellar track record when it comes to portraying mental illness in a sensitive, honest, and appropriately complex way (think Psycho or the notorious caffeine pill epi…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Alexandra Savior on bipolar disorder and being discovered by Courtney Love

Episode 215

"Beneath the Lilypad" is singer-songwriter Alexandra Savior's third album, but her first in five years. Several years ago, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, type 1. That’s a condition marked w…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

You’re Not Imagining It, Climate Change IS Messing With Your Mental Health

Episode 214

As temperatures and sea levels rise, the effects of climate change are being felt in weather patterns, natural disasters, and in both public and personal mental health. We talk with Dr. Caroline Carn…

Published on 5 months ago

Can a Bipartisan Congressional Caucus Save Mental Health in America?

Episode 213

Rep. Andrea Salinas (D-Ore.) is one of four chairs of the bipartisan Mental Health Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, a 93-member group of Republicans and Democrats pledging to fight stigma…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Ethan Sacks and Daughter Naomi Tackle Mental Health in Comics Form with A Haunted Girl

Episode 212

Ethan Sacks is a veteran comics writer, having created stories for Marvel, DC, and numerous Star Wars comics. In the comic A Haunted Girl, Ethan enlisted his daughter Naomi as co-writer to tell a sto…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Felicia Day on Depression, Anxiety, Achievement, Burnout, and Failed Prodigies

It would take an entire section of show notes here to list all the things Felicia Day has accomplished in her career. Here’s an attempt at making that brief: acted in a bunch of TV shows you know, cr…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

The Head And The Heart’s Kenny Hensley Injured Both Shoulders and That’s Where the Trouble Started

Episode 211

Aperture is the sixth studio album by the indie-folk band The Head And The Heart and it’s kind of a return to the more grounded, collaborative sound of their earliest work. It’s less polished, less h…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

988’s Future, Funding, and Online Fables

Episode 210

There have been ten million contacts, via phone calls, texts, and chats, with the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline since it first launched in July of 2022. As its third anniversary approaches, we check …

Published on 6 months ago

Generative AI Chatbot Delivers Great Results for Mental Health. Is “Therabot” the Future?

Episode 209

Would you open your heart to a bot? Tell it all your problems? Look to a piece of code, a computer program, for high-quality mental healthcare? Some people have said yes and the results are hard to i…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Perfectly Hidden Depression: Do You Have It? With Dr. Margaret Rutherford

Episode 208

If you were brought up in a family or a culture that never recognized, discussed, or processed things like depression and trauma, you may have learned to simply hide those difficult feelings away and…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago