Mad Waters - A Parents' Odyssey Through the Mental Health System Podcast
1) S2E7 - Unpacking Addiction - Interview with Dr. Nathan Sackett
Mortality deaths in adolescents due to unintentional overdoses reached an all-time high in 2020. The majority of deaths (81%) were due to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. About 41% of those who o...Show More
2) S2E6 - We Are Not In Normal Times - Interview with Dr. Kenneth Thompson
“Efforts are being made to reach underserved communities.” A cry so familiar, it sounds more like a platitude than a plan. Yet, we still accept it as the necessary and sufficient answer to much of our...Show More
3) S2E5 - The Kids Are Not Alright - Interview with Dr. Jared Taylor
There was a collective sigh heard round the world when children went back to school after the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet, we were unprepared for what came next - an explosion of physical fights, skyrocket...Show More
4) S2E4 - Siren Song - Interview with Dr. Anna Lembke
The opioid crisis is making headlines and demanding the attention of policy makers, Emergency Rooms, addiction specialists, and law enforcement. As it should. What about the insidious, even more perva...Show More
5) S2E3 - Autism’s Gender Bias - Interview with Dr. Cynthia Gordon
Autism is a tricky diagnosis to make sometimes. It can present in numerous ways that don’t fall into classic presentations. Take this problem and now multiply it. What you get is the challenge in diag...Show More
6) S2E2 - The Superpower of Babies - Interview with Mary Gordon
From the moment babies enter the world, they are being taught. Taught to identify colors, shapes, numbers, letters. Later, they learn to read, to swim, to ride a bike. They arrive wired to learn. What...Show More
7) 8 - Can't Find My Way Home - Interview with Dr. Ken Duckworth
“What is the difference being a mother of a child with mental illness and the mother of a child who might have heart disease or cancer?” That was the question posed on a 60 Minutes episode by Scott Pe...Show More
8) 7 - Modern Hermits - Interview with Dr. Alan Teo
Few have experienced the kind of isolation that Covid-19 brought with it. Although mandated for our collective health, it wreaked havoc on our mental health. Since the 1980’s, Japan has seen social wi...Show More
9) 6 - Surviving the Inconceivable - Interview with Dr. Akhtar Badshah
Covid-19 exposed fault lines in our culture, our education, and our healthcare. Burn-out spread like wildfire among those on the front lines and set the stage for what is now being called, the Great R...Show More
10) 5 - A Matter of Life or Death - Interview with Doug Reuter
Imagine you are ill and that part of the malady, is not knowing it. Imagine that the result of this is not only to get worse. It is potentially fatal.That is exactly the scenario in which a small perc...Show More