Podcast: Severe Mental Illness, Therapy Culture, Meditation, and more

With Regan and Vaish of the Moral Mayhem Podcast

I had a great time the other week talking with

Vaishnav Sunil

and

Regan Arntz-Gray

for their Moral Mayhem podcast. We had a wide ranging conversation and surveyed quite a few topics, including: severe mental illness, barriers to good psychiatric treatment, identifying with diagnostic labels, meditation, among others. It was edited down to 2 hours, but there was so much to talk about we probably could have kept going. Regan and Vaish also each have their own Substacks that are well worth subscribing to (see below).

Just to give you a feel for the conversation, here’s a clip in which I bitterly complain about how HIPAA makes psychiatric care harder for everyone.

Note: as

Nils Wendel, MD

correctly pointed out, the HIPAA law itself treats psychiatric medical records mostly like other medical records, with a few exceptions. My (sloppy) habit has been to use “HIPAA” as a synecdoche for our entire psychiatric-medical privacy regime, which includes HIPAA among many other things. I’ll try to be more precise in the future.

Full Podcast Episode:

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Vaish’s Substack:

Regan’s Substack: