New York Magazine features writer Molly Fischer joins us to talk about her first-person experience trying out these apps, which don’t always deliver on their promise.
Read moreWhen Your Parent Is Mentally Ill
Clinical psychologist Vinita Mehta joins us to talk about how nearly one in four children worldwide have a parent with mental illness and how that can affect both child development and the parent-child relationship into adulthood.
Read moreHumorist Jenny Lawson Lives With Depression
Jenny Lawson joins us to talk about her battle with mental illness and her quest to find health, which she navigates with levity and laughter even in the darkest times.
Read moreShe Grew Up In A Cult … And That Was Just The Beginning
Lauren Hough joins us to talk about growing up in a cult, joining the military, contending with homelessness, and chronicling her exceptional life story along the way.
Read moreThe Weird Racial Phenomenon Of ‘Reverse-Passing’
Helen Lewis of The Atlantic joins us to talk about the people who take on the roles of different ethnicities and asks if a form of Munchausen syndrome could actually be at play.
Read moreThe Side Effects Of Meditation
David Kortava joins us to talk about why we’ve overlooked the potential problems with achieving a high level of mindfulness, including depression and schizophrenic deterioration.
Read moreCaregivers Can’t Catch A Break
Kate Washington joins us to talk about caring for her husband after he was diagnosed with cancer, her feelings of isolation, and her realization that caregiving keeps a broken health care system afloat.
Read moreWas Closing Schools The Right Move For American Teens?
Alec MacGillis covers politics and government for ProPublica, and he joins us to tell the stories of teenagers in two small towns, one in New Mexico and one in Texas, where governors took very different approaches to public safety.
Read moreYour Brain On Autopilot
This hour, we’ll talk with a sleep expert about how the mind uses dreaming to process day-to-day events and prepare us for the future; we’ll learn how seeing “ghosts” might actually be a by-product of processing grief; and we’ll explore ways to cultivate the mind in order to achieve peak performance.
Read moreWhat Would We Do If There Were No More Nurses?
Theresa Brown is a nurse and author, and she joins us to talk about the nurses charged with healing despite a lack of support and how, even as the demand for care skyrockets, the nation faces a severe nursing shortage.
Read moreYou’re Lying To Yourself – And That’s A Good Thing
Shankar Vedantam, host of NPR’s “Hidden Brain,” joins us to talk about the myriad ways we lie to ourselves on a daily basis and how that might actually help lead to a much happier life.
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