A Way Through the Mental Health Struggles for Twentysomethings
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Laird on WNYC. |
| 0:13.0 | I mentioned earlier that one of the things we're doing during this membership drive on the show is sampling from the Brian Laird Show, spring bookshelf, a lot of interesting books, |
| 0:22.0 | some by famous people, some by less famous people out this spring. And so we put a lot of books |
| 0:27.5 | together for this show, at least one a day, sometimes two a day. We had Frank Bruney on last hour. |
| 0:36.3 | Interesting to hear that spot about his event coming up as well. Frank Bruny on Last Hour. Interesting to hear that spot about his event coming up as well. |
| 0:40.7 | Frank Bruny for the age of grievance to start the show today. Now, back in 2012, the developmental |
| 0:48.6 | clinical psychologist, Dr. Meg Jay, wrote a book, The Defining Decade, Why Your 20s Matter and How to Make the Most of |
| 0:57.2 | Them Now. She was on the show for that book back then. We talked about how the 20-something brain develops, |
| 1:03.9 | how that development impacts the rest of their lives and more. And it really resonated with a lot of |
| 1:10.0 | people. Her book has since sold more than 500,000 |
| 1:13.4 | copies in these 12 years, and her TED talk on the topic has over 3.5 million views. Now Dr. Jay is out |
| 1:20.7 | with a new book that offers advice for navigating the struggles of young adults today. The new book |
| 1:26.0 | is titled The 20-something Treatment, |
| 1:28.4 | A Revolutionary Remedy for an Uncertain Age, and she joins us now. And a lot of change has changed |
| 1:35.1 | in this country since 2012, though some of the developmental basics, of course, have not. |
| 1:42.3 | Dr. Jay, welcome back to WNYC. Oh, it's great to be here, Brian. It's so |
| 1:47.0 | great to talk to you again. So not to bury the lead. Do you think life is harder for 20-somethings today |
| 1:52.7 | in general than it was in 2012? Oh, gosh, that is a great question. Let's just say it's definitely |
| 1:58.8 | not easy. You know, the 20s are probably going to be |
| 2:03.1 | the most uncertain years of your life personally, developmentally, and there's certainly, |
| 2:08.2 | you know, very uncertain years globally, nationally, politically, politically, in every way. So, |
| 2:14.0 | you know, the 20s are a tough time. And listeners, we can take a few phone calls. |
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