Death, Sex & Money - Hold On: My Diagnosis, My Self
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🗓️ 17 May 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Anna talks to psychology professor and researcher Dr. Craig Rodriguez-Seijas, about his work studying bias in mental health diagnostics, and takes listener calls about how a diagnosis has shaped their sense of identity, for better or worse. Plus, Aneri Pattani, Senior Correspondent at Kaiser Health News, explains what investments the Biden administration is making toward mental health.
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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 18th at 8p ET.
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| 0:00.0 | This is death sex and money from WNYC. I'm Anna Sale. |
| 0:04.0 | This week, we're continuing our hold-on series. |
| 0:08.0 | For the month of May, I've been hosting live national call-in shows with WNYC about the state of our mental health. |
| 0:15.0 | It has been so energizing for us to hear from listeners in real time, to have people call in from their parked cars, |
| 0:22.0 | their kitchens, in their living rooms on the street, just to have these live conversations |
| 0:26.5 | without editing and see who happens to reach out and call in. For this episode, we focused on |
| 0:33.0 | the impact of getting a diagnosis for a mental health condition. When it's helped, |
| 0:38.6 | and when it hasn't been so helpful. University of Michigan psychology professor Craig Rodriguez Sejas joined me in answering calls. |
| 0:44.8 | He has studied bias in mental health diagnoses, particularly how LGBTQ plus people are more likely to be |
| 0:51.7 | diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, a broad diagnosis |
| 0:55.9 | that can describe a constellation of behaviors, including impulsiveness, persistent feelings |
| 1:00.8 | of emptiness, or a pattern of unstable relationships. On Saturday, we'll drop an episode |
| 1:06.4 | in your feed with your calls about prescription medication and your mental health. And if you want to join our next |
| 1:12.3 | live call-in show, it's on May 18th at 8 p.m. Eastern Time. You can stream it at WNYC.org, and you can see |
| 1:20.1 | more about this series, including mental health resources at WNYC.org slash hold on. You can also share that link with anyone in your life |
| 1:29.4 | that you think might benefit from hearing other people share |
| 1:32.1 | about their mental health. |
| 1:33.9 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 1:43.7 | This is Hold On, a live national call-in special about our mental health from WNYC and death, |
| 1:50.3 | sex and money. I'm Anna Sale. All this month of May, which is Mental Health Awareness Month, |
| 1:55.9 | we are talking with you about mental health on public radio stations across the country and on the podcast I host, |
| 2:02.0 | Death, Sex and Money. This hour, we are taking your calls about your stories about mental |
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