#490 Best Of - Dr Melanie Watkins

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture, Mental Health, Sexuality

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 140 minutes

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The board-certified psychiatrist answers questions about personality disorders, medication, problems in the mental health system and mental health in the black community. Support Our Sponsors! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp online counseling. To get a free week go to www.BetterHelp.com/mental Must be 18. For those under 18 you will be redirected to or can go directly to TeenCounseling at www.teencounseling.com This episode is sponsored by mobile puzzle game Best Fiends. Download it for free at the Apple App store or Google Play. WAYS TO HELP THE PODCAST ______________________ Subscribe via iTunes and leave a review. It costs nothing. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-illness-happy-hour/id427377900?mt=2 ————————————————————————— Spread the word via social media. It costs nothing. Our website is www.mentalpod.com our FB is www.Facebook.com/mentalpod and our Twitter and Instagram are both @Mentalpod -------------------------------------------------------- Become a much-needed Patreon monthly-donor (with occasional rewards) for as little as $1/month at www.Patreon.com/mentalpod Become a one-time or monthly donor via Paypal or Zelle (make payment to [email protected]) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try Our Sponsor’s Products/Services --------------------------------------------------- See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Miss Fit toys.
0:03.2	Welcome to episode 490 with my guest, Dr. Melanie Watkins.
0:07.5	She is a psychiatrist and we're going to touch on a lot of things.
0:10.3	We're going to talk about meds.
0:12.4	We're going to talk about metal health in the black community.
0:15.6	This episode was originally recorded several years ago, but I felt like it was a good
0:23.0	time to re-arrot, especially given that she is a person of color, but I always love
0:30.8	talking to psychiatrists anyways.
0:35.2	Side note, the episode that I originally released for this week was an interview.
0:41.0	It was also a replay of an interview that I had recorded years ago and it was with a policeman
0:48.4	and my intent in releasing that episode was to try to get to the root of what is contributing
0:59.6	to the epidemic of police brutality in this country to try to see.
1:07.1	Is there some type of root cause that we can try to work on?
1:13.0	Or is this something that's hopeless or the policeman that are racist and violent?
1:17.6	Or they've born that way?
1:19.8	Or does the stress of the job contribute to their behavior?
1:25.2	I just felt like it was important to start a discussion on this.
1:32.0	Well it turns out in not listening to that episode that I re-ran, it came across understandably
1:41.2	as very tone deaf and very insensitive to what is going on right now in the wake of
1:47.4	George Floyd's murder.
1:50.2	I apologized to anybody who was offended or felt that I was not taking what is happening
1:58.6	seriously.
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