Hiding Depression at Work
This week I talk with therapist and former orchestra conductor Susie Melnick about how depression has affected her work in both professions. We talk about the event that set off her first episode of...
View ArticleTalking about Depression at Work
On this week’s show I talk with Lisa, who shares two dramatically different stories of telling co-workers about her depression. Her experiences highlight the contrast between a work culture that is...
View ArticleReducing the Stigma of Depression at Work
A conversation with Clare Miller, director of the American Psychiatric Association’s Partnership for Workplace Mental Health. She works with employers to help them do everything they can to identify...
View ArticleMental Health at the Coffee Shop
A conversation with Mary Allen Lindemann, co-founder of Portland’s Coffee By Design. We talk about the ways that one coffee shop worked to become a safe place for those with mental illness. Mary Allen...
View ArticleTaking the Fight to Depression
This week we talk with LJ, who has been dealing with depression for most of his life, and describes it as a battle with a powerful enemy. He talks about the way that depression has affected his...
View ArticleBeing Believed
This week’s show is the second half of my conversation with Ruth Moore, a survivor of Military Sexual Trauma, and the namesake of the Ruth Moore Act, a piece of pending legislation which would remove...
View ArticleThe Experience of Schizophrenia
This week we revisit a conversation from 2011 with Elyn Saks, a law professor and MacArthur fellow who lives with schizophrenia. We discuss how she came to the difficult understanding that she had...
View ArticleTemple Grandin on Helping Children with Autism to Succeed
In this conversation Temple Grandin vividly describes the various sensory ways that autistic people like herself experience the world differently from the ‘neurotypical’ majority. She also discusses...
View ArticleAnxiety in Photos
We start our new season and our new series on living with an anxiety disorder with a conversation with photographer John William Keedy. His new exhibition is called It’s Hardly Noticeable, in which...
View ArticleAssistance for Employees with Depression
This week we begin a new series on depression in the workplace. My first guest is Geoff Smith, who heads LL Bean’s Employee Assistance Program, or EAP. We talk about what an EAP can do to...
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