Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - How To!: Parent Your Depressed Teen With Carvell Wallace
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🗓️ 24 November 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On this bonus episode from our friends at Slate's How To! podcast: As Kate’s teenage son, Sam, approached college she noticed him withdrawing. He wasn’t excited about his future and started to show symptoms of major depression. It came to a crisis point one summer night before Sam was set to leave for school. In the weeks and months that followed, Sam struggled to navigate the mental health system in search of care. And Kate? Kate was left wondering how she could help her son without being overbearing. On this episode of How To!, guest host Carvell Wallace brings on Dr. Christine Moutier, psychiatrist and the chief medical officer for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. She advises Kate and all of us on how to be appropriately supportive, especially when things get to a scary place. She also reveals how she coped when her own teenager experienced a mental health crisis.
Resources:
If you or anyone you know is in crisis, dial 988 or text TALK to 741741.
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
AFSP’s Real Conversation Guides
If you liked this episode, check out: “How To Stop Being Anxious”
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Mom and Dad, listeners. We're off today, but we're bringing you an episode from |
| 0:05.0 | a legend. The former beloved mom and dad are fighting host, Carvel Wallace. Yes, Carvel Wallace, |
| 0:13.2 | one of the great writers of our time and an amazing podcast host. He guest hosted an episode for |
| 0:19.2 | Slate's How To podcast, all about how to parent your teen |
| 0:22.4 | through a mental health crisis. It's totally worth your time. I'm going to hand over the |
| 0:26.9 | mic to Carvel, and we'll see you back here in the feed on Monday. Hi, everyone. What's up? |
| 0:34.1 | Hello. Hi. Are people nervous? Is anyone feeling nervous? Yeah. |
| 0:38.3 | Okay, good. |
| 0:39.3 | Good. |
| 0:40.3 | So we're all in the same place. |
| 0:42.3 | Welcome to how to. |
| 0:45.3 | I'm journalist Carvel Wallace, sitting in for Amanda Ripley. |
| 0:49.3 | You know, I've given advice in the parenting sphere for years as both a podcast host and columnist for Slate. |
| 0:56.0 | And while I can't say I've seen it all, by the time I stepped away, I felt like I had come pretty close. |
| 1:02.6 | But what we're going to talk about today is by far the trickiest, most heart-wrenching thing to navigate as a parent. |
| 1:10.2 | And just a warning, we are going to briefly |
| 1:12.0 | discuss suicidal ideation in this episode. Here's this week's listener. |
| 1:17.7 | My name is Kate. I'm a writer, and I'm a mom of two sons who are 19 and 15. |
| 1:25.4 | I wonder if you can tell us a little bit about Sam. |
| 1:28.8 | How would you describe Sam to someone who'd never met him? |
| 1:31.7 | Oh, gosh. |
| 1:33.0 | He was the kind of kid that could walk into a park and within an hour come out with a new best friend. |
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