Black Man in a White Coat Fighting For Mental Health
Sickboy
CBC
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Humor isn't just medicine for the soul; it's also a scalpel that dissects the complex anatomy of our mental and physical health. This week Jer and Tay are joined by best-selling author and psychiatrist, Dr. Damon Tweedy.
From discussing the stigmas that shadow mental health in marginalized communities to the transformative power of integrating mental health care into everyday medical practice, the conversation covers significant ground. Dr. Tweedy shares his evolution from cardiology to psychiatry, emphasizing the critical role of mental health in medical education and the larger healthcare ecosystem. Stick around for the wrap up, as we continue the mental health talk where Jer shares a real life nightmare where he may or may not have had a psychotic break. Was it intrusive cognitions? Was it a complete psychotic break? Tune in to the end to find out!
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| 0:00.0 | What's the connection between being an astronaut and being a novelist? I hadn't really thought about it |
| 0:06.8 | until I talked to the astronaut-turned-writer Chris Hadfield about his new thriller, Final Orbit. |
| 0:13.5 | Every week on the podcast bookends, I sit down with today's best authors for candid conversations |
| 0:18.8 | about their writing, inspirations, and lives. |
| 0:22.8 | You'll get to see the world through the eyes of your favorite writers, and they might even |
| 0:26.6 | take you to outer space too. Bookends with Matea Roach is available now wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:34.3 | This is a CBC podcast. |
| 0:52.5 | Music This is a CBC podcast. Hey folks. |
| 0:53.6 | This week, we are diving into mental health because it's Mental Health Awareness Week. |
| 0:59.5 | And Taylor and I had a wonderful chat with Dr. Damon Tweedy, who's a professor of psychiatry at Duke University. |
| 1:08.0 | And you know what? |
| 1:10.3 | I feel like we talk to him mostly about the barriers to access |
| 1:14.1 | with mental health care and how mental health care is not really being treated and being taken |
| 1:20.7 | seriously the way that it should be among the health care professionals out there and also the folks |
| 1:26.5 | that need it. |
| 1:34.9 | But we probably should have talked to him about my potential need for a psychiatrist. |
| 1:41.5 | Because in the wrap up today, Brian Taylor and myself dive into a recent experience that I had where I'm pretty sure it's possible that I may be experienced |
| 1:47.6 | a psychotic break. But if you want to know how that all panned out and whether or not I'm actually |
| 1:54.4 | going cuckoo, then you're going to have to stick around until after our conversation with our |
| 1:59.6 | new friend, Dr. Damon Tweeter. |
| 2:02.1 | Enjoy. Well, folks, if you don't know, May represents a number of very important advocacy initiatives. |
| 2:21.8 | May is Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month. |
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