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Words Matter

Managing Mental Health with Dr. Ben Miller

Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.62.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In the face of such overwhelming bad news, it’s all too easy to feel hopeless. Dr. Ben Miller joins Kavita and Norm to talk about the narrative of mental illness in mass shootings, and shares ways that we can maintain good mental health even when the news is bleak. Don’t miss this important episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The DSR listener survey is now here. Your voice matters, and we want to hear it.

0:06.0

So please take a moment to fill out the survey and help us make our podcasts even better.

0:11.0

You can find a link to the survey in the show description below.

0:15.0

Thank you.

0:19.0

This is Words Matter with Norm Ornstein.

0:23.0

We've got the votes and screwed the rest of you.

0:27.0

And Dr. Kavita Patel.

0:29.0

These might be some of the smaller moments, you know, with all the bombshells.

0:32.0

Did you catch people's eyes?

0:43.0

Hello, and welcome to a very special episode of Words Matter.

0:47.0

We don't often have guests on our pod, but today we decided actually for a while now

0:53.0

we've been trying to get one of our favorite friends on an off the pod, Dr. Ben Miller.

1:00.0

And before I do a bit of a longer intro, I'll just say that this is kind of a special podcast

1:05.0

that we're doing off-sequence, and therefore we're not going to have a member's section or this section.

1:10.0

We're just going to do a kind of a broad and friend conversation that everybody can listen to

1:17.0

and we encourage everyone to listen to.

1:20.0

So that Norm and I felt it was a pretty important time in our country.

1:24.0

I'll be honest, when we wanted to reach out to Dr. Miller, it was really after October 7th.

1:29.0

And he was like one of the first people we thought of to just help us think through how to process what's happening.

1:34.0

Sadly, the events of the last several weeks, including the most recent mass shooting.

1:39.0

And I say most recent because there wasn't another one yesterday.

1:42.0

Just had less media attention in another part of the country.

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