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Screen Time: A Mental Health Double Edged Sword - Feel Good Friday

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8524 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week we bypass the silly willy preamble with the gang and jump straight into the world of mental health through the use of tech! Dr. Sandra Meier, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Dal, takes us through the upsides and downsides to using our phones throughout the day. We talk about the latest app she has developed meant to track your mental health and provide more insight into our own emotional well being!

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's becoming pretty clear that U.S. President Donald Trump is ripping up the political

0:05.3

playbook.

0:05.8

And when it comes to what it all means for Canada, well, as they say, it's complicated.

0:09.8

But our podcast, two blocks from the White House, is a way to make sense of it all.

0:13.8

Join me, Willie Lowry, and senior Washington correspondents, Paul Hunter and Katie Simpson

0:18.6

every week as we break down the headlines from Capitol Hill

0:22.1

with a Canadian spin. Find and follow two blocks from the White House on your favorite podcast

0:27.3

app, including YouTube. This is a CBC podcast. Hello folks. Welcome to another episode of Sick Boy Podcast. And it's just me, just Jare,

0:41.4

chiming in to remind all of you that unlike every other Friday, this week's going to be

0:48.0

just a little bit different. It's, you know, we're not going to be bringing you the feel-good

0:53.6

feels with me, Brian, Taylor,

0:57.0

and Lauren, because we're taking a little bit of time away from the mics to prep ourselves

1:03.2

for the big shift over to the CBC, which actually some of you might have already seen in your

1:09.5

podcast feeds.

1:11.4

So that's all exciting.

1:13.3

But instead of having that, you know, our little, our little foreplay segment at the top there

1:20.6

where we just talk about a bunch of silly shit, like how many hot dogs a human can eat.

1:29.7

Instead, we're going to go right into our conversation with our guests this week.

1:33.6

Who is Dr. Sandra Meyer?

1:37.9

Dr. Meyer is an associate professor of psychiatry at Dalhousie University.

1:42.5

She's a psychologist, a geneticist, and an epidemiologist.

1:47.9

Jesus Christ, Dr. Meyer, saves them for the rest of us. This conversation was really interesting.

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