Death, Sex & Money - Hold On: How Therapists See the Mental Health Crisis
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🗓️ 10 May 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Anna takes calls from mental health professionals along with psychiatrist Dr. Kali Cyrus, and you offer your tips for accessing care.
Find resources here (https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/deathsexmoney/articles/hold-mental-health-resources).
Hold On will be in your podcast feeds all month long, but you can also listen live on your local public radio station or stream it at wnyc.org/radio on Thursday, May 11th and Thursday, May 18th starting at 8p ET.
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| 0:00.0 | I've got to say, people just seem lost. Where's my community? I have no backup. It just seems that so |
| 0:07.9 | many people are struggling with a lack of a social safety net and finding safety in community. |
| 0:14.0 | That's Eileen, a death, sex and money listener and therapist telling us what she's been noticing |
| 0:18.9 | lately at work. As you may know, May is Mental Health |
| 0:22.8 | Awareness Month. And while mental health is something we talk about all the time on the show, |
| 0:27.4 | we wanted to mark this month at death, sex, and money, by doing something a little different. |
| 0:31.8 | We are partnering with our colleagues at WNYC and public radio stations across the country |
| 0:36.7 | on a series of live national call-ins about |
| 0:40.3 | mental health. We're calling the series, hold on. Get it? It's a double meaning of how being in |
| 0:46.5 | crisis or a mental health downturn can feel like you're just holding on. And also, it's a |
| 0:51.9 | call-in show. So hold on the phone. This is the first of six hours we'll |
| 0:57.3 | be sharing with you this month. And we're beginning at the place where most of us get stuck, |
| 1:02.0 | how to start therapy. We asked you what's worked to find help and also asked mental health |
| 1:07.3 | professionals to call in and talk about what they're seeing in their sessions. |
| 1:15.9 | We heard about loneliness, anxiety, and the frustrations and successes of telehealth. |
| 1:20.7 | We're going to drop the second episode, which was all about teenagers and mental health, |
| 1:26.7 | this coming Saturday. And the plan is for you to get two episodes per week for the next three weeks. |
| 1:28.2 | If you want to participate live, the next two call-ins are on Thursday's 8 to 10 Eastern Time, so that's May 11th and |
| 1:34.5 | May 18th. We're on 100 public radio stations, but if we're not being broadcast where you live, |
| 1:40.2 | you can stream it live on WNYC's website, which is linked in our show notes. |
| 1:44.8 | And we want to know what you think about this series, and to hear any stories from your own life that it stirs up, you can always be in touch by emailing us at depth, sexmoney at WNYC.org. |
| 1:56.3 | Here's the episode. |
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