Out Of The Mental Illness Box
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
When treating mental illness, you know the drill. Take your meds. Call me in the morning. Let's check in on how you feel in a few months. Repeat.
But maybe there’s something else you can add to that toolkit.
We talk with a psychiatrist who prescribes exercise as medicine, a woman who treats her anxiety with horror films, and the scientists examining how depression can be treated with psychedelics.
Need to talk? Contact the National Alliance for Mental Illness at 1-800-950-NAMI (6264). If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 (En Español: 1-888-628-9454; Deaf and Hard of Hearing: 1-800-799-4889) or the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741.
Original Air Date: February 15, 2020
Guests:
Eliza Smith — Claudia Reardon — Shira Erlichman — Rosalind Watts — Charles Raison — Roland Griffiths — Robin Carhart-Harris
Interviews In This Hour:
Treating Anxiety With Horror Films — Do 10 Burpees And Call Me In The Morning — How Psychedelic Experiences Might Treat Depression — The Power in Naming an Illness
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, it's Anne here. |
| 0:04.2 | Today, onto the best of our knowledge, |
| 0:05.5 | we're talking about some fascinating new therapies for mental illness. |
| 0:09.3 | They're unconventional, definitely not meant to replace your meds, |
| 0:13.0 | but for some people, they're working. |
| 0:16.8 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:25.3 | Wisconsin Public Radio. |
| 0:32.6 | It's to the best of our knowledge. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Anne Strange Champs, and it's story time. |
| 0:51.2 | So I'm about six years old, and I really want to tell a story. |
| 0:53.0 | I have a story in my head. |
| 0:55.5 | This is Eliza Smith, and here's a story. I have a story in my head. This is Eliza Smith. |
| 0:59.3 | And here's a story she told her mother. |
| 1:10.5 | So it's this group of people at this manor house in the middle of the English countryside. |
| 1:11.6 | And it's totally dark at night. |
| 1:15.6 | It's storming, they're having a great time, |
| 1:19.6 | the fire is warring, they're warm, they're cozy, |
| 1:23.6 | and someone knocks at the door |
| 1:32.3 | and interrupts their conversation and their laughter |
| 1:35.3 | and everything gets really quiet |
| 1:37.3 | because who could be coming to the door at this time of night. |
| 1:41.3 | The host goes to the door, and he opens it. |
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