On the NPR TED Radio Hour Sunday 20th of December 6pm
'Headspace'
Some of our most powerful feelings are stress, depression, despair and they can be the hardest to understand. This hour, TED speakers challenge assumptions about emotion, disquiet and the essence of well-being.
Writer and psychologist Andrew Solomon describes how he hid from and eventually confronted his own serious depression. ‘If people were to talk about these things a lot more often, they’d find that others wouldn’t laugh at them, they’d say- me too’
Twenty-three-year-old Alix Generous humorously describes her years-long journey through misdiagnosis in the mental health system and how it affected her sense of confidence and self-worth. Alix has Asperger syndrome and found it difficult to express her emotions. From the age of 8, doctors thought she had bipolar and knew that she was depressed.
Neurobiologist David Anderson explains why psychiatric drugs don't always work, and how researchers are working to find targeted forms of treatment including his own experiments with fruit flies.
Psychologist Guy Winch makes the case to practice emotional hygiene - taking care of our emotions with the same diligence we take care of our bodies.
Writer and psychologist Andrew Solomon returns to describe how the more he talked about his depression, the more others wanted to tell their stories.
The TED Radio Hour, Sunday's from 6pm on Newstalk 106-108 FM.
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