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Mental Health

Looking for comfort? Build a routine

January 6, 2022 Mental Health

Harper’s Magazine writer Meghan O’Gieblyn explains what we can learn from habit, and how we can find freedom in even the most mundane tasks.

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When a difficult parent dies, grieving is complicated

January 3, 2022 Mental Health

Obed Silva discusses his father, who his family left behind in Mexico to escape his drunken violence, and what it means to grieve for a man who caused so much pain.

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It’s time to stop dismissing psychosomatic illness

December 17, 2021 Health, Mental Health, Science and Technology

Neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan discusses her travels around the world trying to understand seemingly odd or fantastical illnesses that spread in communities, and the very real humans who suffer from them.

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A scientific case for spirituality

December 15, 2021 Health, Mental Health

Psychology professor Lisa Miller explains why prayer, mindfulness, even nature walks, improve brain function, resilience and, ultimately, our health.

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Making work from home work forever

December 10, 2021 Current Events, Economics, Mental Health

Charlie Warzel discusses the takeaways from work-life balance that have come out of Covid working arrangements, and what the future of corporate HQ might look like.

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The global poor need mental health care, too

December 9, 2021 Economics, Global Issues, Health, Mental Health

Vox reporter Dylan Matthews discusses the work of the Happier Life Institute, which found that access to psychotherapy should be central to foreign aid and charity work abroad in order to increase well-being.

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What it’s like to grow up undocumented

December 3, 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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Why we find pleasure in pain

December 1, 2021 Culture, Mental Health, Think

Paul Bloom joins us to discuss why we sometimes seek out pain — in everything from scary movies to marathons.

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Anxious all the time? Here’s how to free your mind

December 1, 2021 Health, Mental Health, Think

psychotherapist Nancy Colier explains how excessive thinking to the point of stress is an addiction and offers tips on how practices like mindfulness can calm an overactive mind.

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When you’re bipolar, chaos is always lurking

November 30, 2021 Health, Mental Health, Think

Naomi Jackson joins us to talk about the series of events that led to her diagnosis of bipolar disorder and the things she almost lost as she battled her way back to health.

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A view of a Pride flag hanging from Peterborough Cathedral

She Couldn’t Pray The Gay Away

November 12, 2021 Culture, Health, Mental Health

Julie Rodgers joins us to discuss how religion has shaped her life, from coming out in a conservative evangelical household, to now, as she works to bridge LGBTQ communities with the church.

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Brandon Fleming instructs a class.

From Drug Dealer To Harvard Debate Coach

November 5, 2021 Education, Mental Health, Race/Identity

Brandon P. Fleming joins us to discuss his childhood surrounded by poverty and crime, his dreams shattered by injury, and his ultimate redemption, which he found in teaching himself and others to be express themselves.

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