Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMike Doughty Was Recently Hospitalized for Depression Twice. It Helped.
Episode 241
It was two years into a vicious cycle of depression and Mike Doughty was falling apart. He was taking more Ambien than he had been prescribed, import…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Tom Johnson Advised LBJ, Ran CNN, and Drove Himself to Severe Depression
Episode 240
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. To…
4 months ago
Anger: Let’s Talk About It, Learn About It, Not Fear It, Use It For Good
Episode 239
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…
4 months, 1 week ago
Unemployment Hurts Mental Health, Horror Movies Might Help It. Really!
Episode 238
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 o…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Maureen Johnson Became Friends with Her Anxiety Monster
Episode 237
Maureen Johnson loves mysteries. Loves reading classic detective fiction and loves writing mystery stories, which young readers have been gobbling up…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
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, ch…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Esmé Weijun Wang’s Mind Convinced Her She Was Dead and In the Afterlife
Episode 236
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 be…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Is Your Mental Health Diagnosis an Identity or Something More Meaningless?
Episode 235
You may find the charges in this episode jarring: depression is not the result of a chemical imbalance, SSRIs aren’t necessarily antidepressants, and…
5 months ago
The 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 …
5 months, 1 week 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 …
5 months, 2 weeks ago