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Coping with Depression at Work with Clare Miller

March 14, 2016 by ssradmin

Clare Miller is the 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 and treat depression among their employees. We discuss how to reduce the stigma of depression, and the value of people coming forward with their own stories. Clare …read more »

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Filed Under: Emotions, Mental Health, Waiting Room Project - Psychiatry Tagged With: coworkers, depression, management, mental health, stigma, workplace

Hiding Depression at Work with Susie Melnick

February 29, 2016 by ssradmin

Therapist and former orchestra conductor Susie Melnick talks about how depression has affected her work in both professions. She remembers living through her first episode of major depression, one that she struggled with on and off for decades, and discusses how coping eventually led her to change careers. She talks about treating her patients while …read more »

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Filed Under: Emotions, Mental Health Tagged With: coworkers, depression, employer, mental health, work, workplace, workplace health

The Challenge of Seeking Asylum with Alice B

November 30, 2015 by ssradmin

This episode of Safe Space Radio features Alice B, an asylum-seeker from Burundi who now lives in Portland, Maine. She talks about her work to support and empower women who have faced cultural silencing and endured trauma in both Burundi and the U.S. Alice and Anne explore ways that refugees might be connected with therapists …read more »

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Filed Under: Emotions, Mental Health, Sexuality, Social Justice, Waiting Room Project - Psychiatry Tagged With: asylum seekers, Immigration & Refugees, Legal System, mental health, Refugees, refugees and asylum seekers, Sexual assault, Therapy, Trauma

Childhood Humiliation

May 11, 2015 by ssradmin

This episode of Safe Space Radio looks at the ways children are humiliated in school, both intentionally and inadvertently, and how it can significantly impact the way they feel about themselves well into adulthood.

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Filed Under: Emotions, Family and Lifecycle, Mental Health Tagged With: childhood, childhood trauma, education, mental health, school culture, school system, Shame, stigma, teacher, teaching, Teens

Getting Beyond Bullying with Kyle

March 10, 2014 by ssradmin

16-year-old Kyle talks about how he went from being bullied in middle school to becoming the face of the Gay-Straight-Trans Alliance in his high school.

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Filed Under: Conflict, Mental Health, Sexuality Tagged With: Bullying, childhood, education, gay straight alliance, GSA, LGBTQ, mental health, middle school, queer, School, teenagers, Teens

Recovery Through Music with Michael Skinner

May 20, 2013 by ssradmin

Songwriter Michael Skinner used music as a way to heal from the abuse he suffered as a child. Michael talks about his adult experiences with PTSD, his often-frustrating encounters with the mental health system, and his efforts to resist the stigmatizing label of “mental illness.” He also explores songwriting as an important healing tool in …read more »

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Filed Under: Emotions, Mental Health Tagged With: art, childhood trauma, healing, mental health, mental illness, music, PTSD, surviving trauma, survivors, Trauma

Child Abuse and Physical Health 25 Years Later with Vincent Felitti

April 15, 2013 by ssradmin

Dr. Vincent Felitti talks about his groundbreaking research to show that Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE’s, like abuse, neglect and severe family dysfunction) are correlated not only with mental illness and addiction, but also with physical illnesses like heart disease, lung disease and even auto-immune diseases.

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Filed Under: Family and Lifecycle, Mental Health, Sexuality Tagged With: ACE study, adverse childhood experiences, childhood trauma, mental health, mental illness, physical illness, research

Restraints in Mental Hospitals with Bob Stains

March 18, 2013 by ssradmin

This episode of Safe Space Radio features Bob Stains of the Public Conversations Project. He talks about the use of restraints on patients in mental hospitals and discusses facilitating a series of conversations in which both the workers who apply restraints and the people to whom restraints have been applied are able to talk about their experiences …read more »

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Filed Under: Conflict, Mental Health Tagged With: Caregivers, medical encounter, Medical Trauma, mental health, mental illness, psychiatric care, psychiatric trauma, restraints, Trauma

PTSD in the Intensive Care Unit with Nancy Andrews

May 2, 2012 by ssradmin

Safe Space Radio interviews film-maker Nancy Andrews about her experience as a patient in the surgical ICU. Upon her release from the hospital, Nancy noticed that she kept having “weird experiences,” which her doctor recognized as post-traumatic stress disorder. Nancy’s film, On a Phantom Limb, explores the horror and disorientation of being an ICU patient. …read more »

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Filed Under: Emotions, Mental Health Tagged With: control, hospitalization, ICU, intensive care unit, Medical Trauma, mental health, PTSD, surgery, the ICU and PTSD, Therapy, Trauma

Reducing Interpersonal Violence with Drew Wing

March 21, 2012 by ssradmin

Drew Wing is Executive Director of Boys To Men, an organization devoted to reducing interpersonal violence by fostering the healthy development of boys. Drew describes their Reducing Sexism and Violence Program (RSVP), which supports teenagers developing empathy for the experience of others, and helps them clarify their potential roles as bystanders who can intervene in …read more »

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Filed Under: Emotions, Sexuality Tagged With: bystander intervention, empathy, masculinity, men, mental health, misogyny, Rape Culture, sexism, sexual violence, teenagers, Teens, youth

On Being a Psychiatrist with David Moltz

June 1, 2011 by ssradmin

David Moltz is a psychiatrist in Portland, ME. In this episode, David talked about his reasons for going into psychiatry and the things he finds most difficult about the profession and the things he loves. He speaks about the use of power, the difficulty of deciding whether to commit someone to a hospital, how he …read more »

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Filed Under: Emotions, Mental Health Tagged With: Addiction & Recovery, addiction treatment, doctors, health, job, medical provider, mental health, mental hospital, mental illness, patient doctor relationship, patient experience, patients, psychiatric care, psychiatric hospital, psychiatrists, Sickness, substance use, Suicide, treatment, work

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