It’s election season! On our new episode of No Stupid Questions, join Paris Bienert, LMSW, and Marketing Specialist Brian Warner for a talk on how you can make this year different from the rest. It turns out your mental health can thrive BECAUSE you’re an engaged citizen, rather than in spite of it!
What is it that makes some people neurodivergent and not others? Marketing Specialist Brian Warner turned to Maria Karolenko, LCPC, to answer that (and much, much more) in our newest episode of No Stupid Questions!
By: Brian Warner It felt too late to be working. Surely everyone else in the office had left hours ago, right? “Just a few more things to cross off your to-do list and you can finally go home,” I kept telling myself. “Am I a workaholic? Do I need to start setting better boundaries?” I…
By: Brian Warner “Either everyone feels like this a little bit and they’re just not talking about it, or I am completely alone. Which isn’t funny.” Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag When we think of depression, and definitely when we see it in movies or TV shows, it usually looks similar. Someone’s probably moping around, maybe wearing…
By: Brian Warner She was a girl still in her wedding dress after leaving her fiancé at the altar. He was a boy newly divorced after his wife left him for another woman. What could go wrong? Maybe it’s no coincidence that one of the most famous relationships of the ‘90s was also one defined…
By: Brian Warner In a 1979 episode of 60 Minutes, Dan Rather hosted a segment on a strange new source of interest in the healthcare field: It may’ve been new to Dan, but mental wellness, a word you’re now much more likely to hear every day, has since become a $146 billion industry. All in…
By: Brian Warner In the 1880s, Sigmund Freud was still a young neurologist in Vienna using the cutting edge but controversial practice of hypnosis. When he started working with the Swiss noblewoman, Fanny Moser, though, she resisted every effort he took to use hypnosis. “You’re getting very sleepy,” he’d say, to which she’d respond, “No…
By: Brian Warner In her review of the 2019 remake of Child’s Play, Ruth Eshuis writes that it is a story built on wicked foundations and may only be enjoyable to those who take pleasure in evil . . . There are dark and heavy themes relating to death, abandonment, shallow friendships, bullying, guilt, and…
By: Brian Warner In the 1980s, fear and panic swept across the U.S. as more and more news reports came out about satanic rituals being performed in seemingly safe neighborhoods. In what became known as the “Satanic Panic,” horrifying, unthinkable stories of kidnapping, abuse, and human sacrifice were suddenly everywhere – maybe even in your…
By: Brian Warner Since it was first identified in Denmark more than 60 years ago, monkeypox has almost exclusively impacted people across central and west Africa. Because of unequal access to global vaccine stockpiles, it’s a virus that’s been mostly contained to countries like Cameroon, Liberia, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo….