Demystifying Mental Health Myths

Wellness: Fact vs. Fiction

Danielle Belardo

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Join Dr. Danielle Belardo and her expert of the week, clinical psychologist Dr. Jonathan Stea, for a highly requested and informative episode about all things mental health. With the rise of pseudo-psychology circulating on social media, Dr. Stea has been on a mission to drown out the mental health misinformation noise by amplifying scientific communication in a digestible, creative way. Tune in to hear how Dr. Stea answers some important questions surrounding depression, anxiety, and much more. Danielle and Jonathan discuss: What depression and anxiety are and how they are diagnosed Evidence-based therapies to treat depression, anxiety, and other disorders Pharmaceutical treatment options including SSRIs and SNRIs and their effectiveness The impact of exercise on mental health Jonathan N. Stea, Ph.D., R. Psych., is a registered and practicing clinical psychologist and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary. Clinically, he specializes in the assessment and treatment of concurrent addictive and psychiatric disorders. He is interested in topics related to science communication and health misinformation in popular media, especially with respect to addiction and mental health. He is a coalition member of Science Up First which distributes and amplifies best-in-class, science-informed content surrounding COVID-19 and the COVID-19 vaccine. He is the co-editor of the forthcoming book Investigating Psychology: Pseudoscience, Fringe Science, and Controversies out in 2023. Thank you so much for taking the time to contribute to a generation that values fact over fiction! Be sure to rate, review, and follow on your favorite podcast app and let us know which not-so-wellness trend you’d like to hear debunked. Follow your host on Instagram @daniellebelardomd and the podcast @wellnessfactvsfiction. Follow Jonathan @jonathanstea and Science Up First @ScienceUpFirst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.5	Everyone will experience depressive symptoms at one time or another, especially as a result
1:13.5	or as a consequence from an identifiable stressor, so job loss, relationship loss. Any sort
1:19.3	of kind of life stressor that's going on, we're supposed to feel depressed sometimes
1:23.0	that's just that's part of human nature. When it gets into trouble is when it becomes
1:27.4	pervasive and functionally impairing and super distressing. And so then at some point
1:34.0	it can cross a line into a clinical or psychiatric disorder.
1:47.6	Welcome to wellness fact versus fiction. I'm Dr. Danielle Bullardo and I'm a cardiologist
1:52.6	who loves evidence-based medicine and nutrition science, but as a millennial I've watched endless
1:57.6	wellness fads take over social media. It's my mission to get to the bottom of things by
2:02.1	bringing on the top expert physicians and scientists to help us determine what is fact
2:06.6	versus fiction when it comes to your health. It's time to leave the pseudoscience behind
2:11.9	and become empowered when it comes to our wellness.
2:22.5	Hello everyone, welcome back to this week's episode of wellness fact versus fiction. This
2:27.0	week we have a highly requested topic which is mental health, so we brought in an expert
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