Hey, it's Anna, and this is a special Saturday drop of the show. For three weeks this month, we are dropping new episodes on Wednesdays and Saturdays to share the national call-in series about mental health that we've been hosting with our colleagues at WNYC during this mental health awareness month. We're calling the series Hold On, and we're taking calls from public radio stations across the country to talk together about our mental health, share your stories, your questions, and your frustrations with the mental health care system, and also what's worked for you.

In this hour, we talked about our relationship to prescription psychiatric medication.

According to a 2021 study,

one in five American adults are taking medication to treat their mental health. That's more than the number in any sort of talk therapy or counseling, which is about one in 10. In this episode,

you'll hear from listeners about the drugs that are helping and about the relationships or lack

thereof that they have with their prescribers and how that can be tricky to navigate when

trying to change or taper off their current meds. If you want to take a look at this whole series

plus a list of mental health resources, go to WNYC.org slash hold on. We'll have our final two episodes

in your feed next week. Please share this series with anyone you think might find it helpful.

Again, you can find it all at WNYC.org slash hold on. Here's the episode.

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This is Hold on, a national call-in special about our mental health from WNYC and the Death, Sex and Money podcast.

I'm Anna Sale.

Thank you for joining us for this series. We are on public radio stations around the country this month of May, which is Mental Health Awareness Month,

to talk together about the state of our collective mental health, where you've gotten help

and where the systems let you down. On each of these call-ins, I'm joined by guests with

expertise in our mental

health care system, but really the focus of our conversations together is sharing our own

experiences more than getting advice, because unfortunately, a lot of our mental health

frustrations don't have easy fixes that an expert can deliver, but we are all experts in our own lived experience. And what we

can fix together with these collins is lifting the stigma of needing and seeking out mental health

treatment. We are focusing this hour on prescription medication and your mental health. Today,

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