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Podcast 384: How to Find Freedom From the Shame Spiral May 23, 2022

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EPISODE DESCRIPTION: In this podcast and blog, I talk about how to get out of a shame spiral. In our society today, it can be hard to feel any degree of self-worth. We are bombarded with the shame of not living up to our own expectations, or the expectations of others. We cannot live up to the photoshopped and retouched images that seem to tell us that to be happy, we must look, dress or act in a certain way, or get straight As and go to an Ivy League university. We are not able to compete with celebrities and influencers—we are just one social media ‘like’ in a sea of admirers, wishing to be someone or do something.

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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

1:25 How low self-esteem & shame are connected

1:40 What shame is

2:15 The difference between shame & guilt

3:30, 9:05 The shame spiral

6:20 Shame & the mind-brain connection

9:30 How easy it is to feel shame

12:25, 18:27, 28:00 How to exit the shame spiral

24:15 Don’t let negative thoughts just wander through your mind!

26:00 How to “edit” you shame thoughts

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Podcast 383: Debunking the myth of the chemical imbalance with renown psychiatrist Dr. Joanna Moncrieff May 19, 2022

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EPISODE DESCRIPTION: In this podcast I talk to psychiatrist, researcher, professor and best-selling author Dr. Joanna Moncreiff about critical psychiatry, the difference between a drug-centered and disease-centered approach in the field of mental health, the history of psychiatry, withdrawal from psychotropic drugs, the dangers of medicalizing misery, the myth of the chemical imbalance, the potential downsides of using psychedelics to treat mental health, and so much more!

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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

3:11 What critical psychiatry means & why Joanna calls herself a critical psychiatrist

6:30 The difference between a drug-centered & disease-centered approach to psychiatry

14:05 Research bias & common misconceptions in mental healthcare

16:00 Mental disorders are not associated with specific or identified brain abnormalities or processes

16:40 The failures of psychiatric drug trials

18:00 The power of the placebo effect & people’s expectations

19:45 The issues surrounding psychiatric drug withdrawal research

29:00 Withdrawing from psychiatric drugs

35:00 Joanna’s NIH clinic for withdrawal

38:20 Methods to withdrawal from psychiatric drugs

52:30 WHO studies on schizophrenia outcomes in different countries around the world

55:30 Why we need to re-evaluate at how we understand mental health

58:40 Psychedelics & mental health