Mental Health

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Your Developmentally Delayed Child Has Finished School — Now What?

September 13, 2021 Health, Mental Health, Race/Identity

Cammie McGovern joins us to discuss “the disability cliff” – when education ends and the hard realities of limited jobs and housing set in – and about her own experience raising a son who has autism.

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How Ideas Infect Our Brains

September 9, 2021 Culture, Health, Mental Health, Science and Technology

Andy Norman, director of the Humanism Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University, joins us to discuss the ways conspiracy theories can corrupt sound thinking – and how we can strengthen ourselves to fight back against bad ideas.

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What It’s Like To Grow Up Undocumented

September 8, 2021 Culture, Health, Mental Health, Politics, Race/Identity

Author Qian Julie Wang joins us to tell the story of her childhood in an undocumented family, how the experience shaped her life, and how she now views the American Dream.

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Anxiety Can Actually Be Good For You

September 7, 2021 Health, Mental Health, Science and Technology

Dr. Wendy Suzuki is a professor of neural science and psychology in the Center for Neural Science at New York University, and she joins us to discuss how we can master stress to put it to good use.

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It’s Time To Recognize The Value Of ‘Women’s Work’

September 6, 2021 Culture, Current Events, Economics, Health, Mental Health, Race/Identity

Type Media Center reporting fellow Sarah Jaffe joins us to talk about how Covid lockdowns made it clear how much Americans rely on care workers – and how little we value them monetarily.

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All The Questions She Never Got To Ask Her Mother

September 1, 2021 Culture, Mental Health, Race/Identity

Kat Chow is a founding member of the Code Switch podcast team from NPR, and she joins us to tell her story of grief, not only for herself, but for her extended family, spread out across the world.

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There’s No Danger In Strangers

August 30, 2021 Culture, Mental Health, Science and Technology

Journalist Joe Keohane joins us to discuss the benefits of breaking down our silos and inclinations to isolate in order to find connection, empathy and a path to happiness.

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For Centuries, Doctors Really Didn’t Understand The Female Body

August 23, 2021 Culture, Health, Mental Health, Science and Technology

Elinor Cleghorn suffered through a long series of misdiagnoses before finally correctly being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. She joins us to unpack the long history of how medicine has failed women.

In this photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, the control tower is seen through the razor wire inside the Camp VI detention facility, Wednesday, April 17, 2019, in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.

He Spent 14 Years In Guantánamo Without A Charge

August 19, 2021 Global Issues, Mental Health, Politics, Race/Identity

Mansoor Adayfi was held at Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp for more than 14 years without charges, and he joins us to tell his personal story of being kidnapped at age 18 by warlords in Afghanistan and sold to the U.S. after 9/11.

Why Gay Bars Matter

August 16, 2021 Culture, Current Events, Mental Health, Race/Identity

KERA’s Miguel Perez joins us to discuss the significance of gay bars to LGBTQ life in North Texas. And later in the hour, Oberlin College sociologist Greggor Mattson talks about the closure of so many of these spaces during the pandemic has meant to the communities they serve.

¡Hola Papi! Is Here To Help

August 13, 2021 Culture, Health, Mental Health, Race/Identity

John Paul Brammer is an author, illustrator and advice columnist of “¡Hola Papi!” on Substack. He joins us to discuss being gay, bi-racial, finding his footing with family and relationships, and all the wisdom he’s tried to impart to eager followers of his work.

She Survived A Civil War, Then Discovered The Trauma Of Racism

August 9, 2021 Culture, Mental Health, Race/Identity

Author Wayétu Moore joins us to discuss her family’s escape from civil war in Liberia, the experience of being an immigrant in Texas, and her eventual return to Africa to better understand the experiences of her fellow migrants.