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From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, this is now and then.

I'm Heather Cox Richardson, and I'm Joanne Freeman. This week we're going to begin a two-part series

on ideas about wellness throughout American history. And for this first episode, we want to

talk about something that in one way or another has certainly been and no pun intended on people's

minds recently. And that is mental health. And obviously, this is tied to the fact that the world

has been going through a pandemic that there have been a variety of other kinds, certainly in the

United States of major components causing stress, whether you're talking about politically or socially,

as far as just basic health is concerned. And because of that, there has been a lot of talk,

and I'll bet a lot of people who read generally in the news have seen people talking about,

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