Going for Broke: Making Up Our Minds

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🗓️ 10 August 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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How we live is indelibly intertwined with the care and empathy we give to each other. What if we put care into helping Americans find homes and build dwellings, into keeping their bodies and minds sound, and finding meaningful and well-paid work? In this three part series, "To The Best Of Our Knowledge" and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project bring you real life stories about economic struggle in our time, as well as ideas for solutions.

Post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health challenges can push people into poverty. Meanwhile, the experience of financial desperation can also create even more trauma, even more suffering. How do you break the cycle? How do we truly care for people mentally and financially?

If you or someone you know are having mental health struggles, we wanted to make sure you are aware of some resources. The National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is available 24 hours a day by calling 9-8-8. The National Alliance on Mental Illness reminds us that one in five people in the US has a mental health concern every year. You can find support and education at their web site, nami.org.

Original Air Date: November 12, 2022

Interviews In This Hour:
Trauma and poverty: The perfect storm experienced by U.S. veterans — Learning to cope when mental health care feels out of reach — More than one way to treat a mind — How harm reduction disrupts painful cycles of addiction

Guests:
Alex Miller, Katie Prout, Daniel Bergner, Maia Szalavitz

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0:00.0	Hey, friends, it's Anne.
0:03.7	Today, onto the best of our knowledge, we've got the second episode of our new series Going for Broke.
0:09.1	It's a co-production with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and hosted by the award-winning journalist Ray Suarez.
0:15.7	Welcome back, Ray.
0:16.9	Thanks, Anne.
0:18.3	So why don't you explain what's on the docket today?
0:25.6	Our subject today is how mental illness and financial hardship go hand in hand. We tend not to treat mental health as a socioeconomic issue, but maybe we should.
0:31.6	Today's episode is called Making Up Our Minds.
0:34.6	It's a mixture of stories from people with first-hand
0:37.9	experience of the mental health care system and some ideas for solutions. After
0:43.8	this. From WPR. It's to the best of our knowledge, I'm in Strange Champs.
1:02.4	It's usually not just one thing that pushes someone over the edge.
1:07.8	For Alex Miller, it began with a phone call to New York.
1:14.5	So I had a friend, and I was telling him, you know, hey, man, it's not going so well.
1:22.7	Not really doing great in Florida.
1:27.4	He was like, hey, man, I got a spare bedroom. If you ever want to come up, why don't you just come up? doing great in Florida.
1:29.5	He was like, hey, man, I got a spare bedroom. If you ever want to come up, why don't you just come up
1:33.8	and get you a job and blah, blah, blah, blah.
1:38.4	You stay with me, we can just get you back on your feet.
1:49.0	I didn't realize that it was a limited time only offer. I mean, I was out on my ass within the week.
1:53.0	I was like, man, I'm trying. I'm going in different places,
1:57.0	trying to get a job at Starbucks and McDonald's and
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