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Big Mood, Little Mood: Armchair Expertise

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🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Danny Lavery welcomes Carmen Rita Wong, author of the recently published book, Why Didn’t You Tell Me? A Memoir. Lavery and Wong take on two letters. First, from someone concerned that her brother has been spiraling since going off his meds. Another letter writer is wondering how to extricate herself from her marriage without devastating her spouse. Plus, a deep dive in to Wong’s memoir, Why Didn’t You Tell Me? Resources if you know a family member or friend experiencing delusions: https://www.bcss.org/support/how-do-i-get-help-for-my-loved-one/steps-working-delusions/ If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Big Mood, Little Mood. Sign up now at Slate.com/MoodPlus to help support our work Need advice? Send Danny a question here. Email: mood@slate.com Production by Phil Surkis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.5

Hello and welcome back to Big Mood, Little Mood. I'm your host, Daniel and Lavary,

0:56.8

and with me in the studio this week is Carmen Rita Wong, the author of the recently published,

1:01.6

Why Didn't You Tell Me a Memoir? Carmen, welcome to the show.

1:05.2

Thank you so much, Danny, for having me. Thank you so much for being here. I am immensely

1:11.1

looking forward to it. I've just realized that our third letter could potentially solve our first

1:16.1

letter, because the first letter is about dealing with somebody who's having a mental health crisis,

1:20.6

and the next letter is about how to handle a colleague who is always armchair diagnosing people,

1:26.6

and I wonder if we can just get that person involved in the first one, tell everyone what their

1:30.3

diagnosis is, sort them all out. I will solve the problem completely, like magic with a wand.

1:36.4

I love that. Okay, that's what we're going to do. I think this is going to be great.

1:40.4

So now on, I'm going to be answering questions with an eye towards causing as much chaos as possible.

1:45.3

And so I will assign people from certain letters to handle other letters on my behalf. I will

1:51.2

deputize them, and I will send an agent to chaos. That is very chaotic. Then we'll have follow-up.

1:58.9

Oh God, that would be an amazing show. I would definitely listen to that, but I don't think

2:03.4

I don't think that I'm up for doing that. Well, I hope that you are feeling just incredibly

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