Episode 46: Jenny Capper’s ECT Diary
In our latest episode we interview Jenny Capper. Jenny is a “She-ro” in the fight against the stigma surrounding mental illness and behavioral healthcare. In 2013, she began Electroconvulsive […]
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Electroconvulsive Therapy, Part 4
“The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or regret for the past.” Sylvia Plath (Poet & […]
Electroconvulsive Therapy, Part 3
“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And […]
Electroconvulsive Therapy, Part 2
Though she has been to a galaxy far, far away, Carrie Fisher knows the benefit of Electroconvulsive Therapy. “Over time, this f@#king thing [ECT] punched the dark lights out of […]
A Jew and A Gentile walk into a Bar . . . Mitzvah 