Death, Sex & Money - Hold On: When Shame Keeps You From Therapy

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🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Hold On, our live national call-in series about mental health, we asked listeners to call in if the idea of getting therapy was something they felt excluded from, either because of how they were raised, what they looked like, or expectations around masculinity and what it means to be strong. Dr. Avi Klein, psychotherapist, and Danielle Muñoz, director of Basic Needs at California State University, Long Beach, talked about their experiences helping people who were reluctant or nervous to get started.

Find resources here, and our whole Hold On series of live call-ins here: (https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/deathsexmoney/articles/hold-mental-health-resources).

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0:00.0	This is death, sex, and money, the show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more.
0:07.4	I'm in a sale.
0:08.8	And this week, we're continuing our hold-on series of live national call-in shows about the state of our mental health.
0:16.7	In this hour, we asked public radio listeners around the country to call in if the idea of getting therapy was something they felt excluded from, either because of how they were raised or because of expectations around masculinity or some other reason.
0:31.7	That being said, I really appreciated how ready to talk these callers were.
0:36.9	Vulnerability, especially on live radio, is hard.
0:41.2	Please share this episode or any part of this series with anyone in your life who you think may be
0:46.9	helped by it, friends, relatives, clients, students, and you can be in touch with us anytime
0:53.0	by emailing death, sex at WNYC.org.
0:57.0	This Saturday, you'll get our final installment of Hold On in your podcast feed all about mental health and the workplace.
1:05.4	Okay, here's the show.
1:10.4	Music This is Hold On, a live national call-in series about our mental health from WNYC and death sex and money, the podcast I host. I'm Anna Sale. In this series of specials that we've had on public
1:29.3	radio stations across the country, we've been talking with you this month about your experiences
1:34.0	with the mental health care system, about what it's been like to get a diagnosis, about getting
1:39.0	on medication and figuring out the best ways to monitor how it's working and the side effects with your provider.
1:45.0	We've talked about the particulars of the mental health care crisis for teens
1:49.0	and heard from mental health professionals about how their clients are doing.
1:54.0	To generalize what they've told us, not good.
1:57.0	There's a lot of feelings of overwhelm about the state of the world, gun violence, climate
2:02.2	change, making it and affording housing, and also a lot of feeling disconnected from community,
2:08.7	very much like you're on your own. And that's what the people are saying who have found a way
2:14.5	to access mental health support. We've heard from you in this series how
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