Loveline 1-21-21 w/ Dr. James Q. Simmons & Heather McPherson
Loveline with Dr. Chris
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4.0 • 803 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
First, Dr. James Q. Simmons comes by Loveline to talk about the vaccine, and when "normal" might return.
Then, licensed therapist Heather McPherson comes by to talk about coping mechanisms involving drugs and alcohol.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening, everybody. How are y'all doing? Week is winding down. For some of you might be |
| 0:05.8 | winding up. For me, it's winding down. Happy to have a weekend coming. It's been a very full week. |
| 0:12.3 | It's been tough. A lot going on. You know, at times I have a little more resilience. I have a |
| 0:17.5 | skill set, but I'm kind of hitting the wall a little bit. |
| 0:23.5 | Missing my life in the way that it used to be. |
| 0:25.6 | But we're getting through, you know? |
| 0:29.3 | Netflix is finally starting to put out some stuff that I find interesting. |
| 0:34.5 | Usually a lot of what these streaming services release, just not the exact population for them. |
| 0:35.9 | But things are changing. |
| 0:37.8 | Let's talk about mental health for a minute. |
| 0:42.0 | One of the things we need to be talking more about is the mental health of young individuals. |
| 0:46.4 | They are struggling to live their lives. They're missing their friends. And they're going to school, long hours, sitting in that one little chair staring at the screen. It's hard for |
| 0:50.1 | anyone, but especially children. So we've got to give them a break because mental health matters |
| 0:53.7 | more than knowing the capital of every state, especially things that are Googled. We don't really |
| 0:58.8 | need to memorize. But yeah, let's be focusing on mental health. Mental health first. That's your |
| 1:03.2 | little daily reminder. Whenever something's being presented, ask yourself, what's the mental health |
| 1:07.1 | impact of that? And guide yourself based on that decision making as much as possible when you can. |
| 1:12.4 | That's what I try to do. |
| 1:13.5 | When something's presented in whatever capacity, personally, professionally, I look at how |
| 1:18.1 | it's going to impact my mental health. |
| 1:20.2 | We have nothing if we don't have that. |
| 1:23.2 | Talking also, though, more about mental health, frontline workers. |
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