Chris Ferguson, a psychology professor, discusses the weak link between social media and mental health problems and explains how previous moral panics have followed a similar pattern. He highlights that studies on social media and depression/suicide are inconsistent and that teens have some of the lowest suicide rates, with other age groups seeing…
Tag: mental health
Chatter #290 – Dr John A. King and Melissa King on PTSD: Living and Coping With Trauma
Dr. John A. King is an author, poet, long-time activist and founder of the Give Them a Voice Foundation in Texas, which he launched in 2015 to provide advocacy, support, resources and rescue for those who have been sexually abused or trafficked. He has appeared in two multi-award winning documentaries, and is a…
Chatter #271 – Tanyaradzwa Fear on Rebuilding Yourself, Religion, and the Weaponisation of Identity
Tanyaradzwa Fear is a British actress, writer and comedian. She had a recurring role on the 2015 television series Spotless and appeared in the Doctor Who episode “Arachnids in the UK” in 2018. Tanya disappeared last year for a number of days in what she describes as her “supernova event”. Since then she…
Chatter #257 – Zuby – Modern Day Madness: Struggle, Masculinity, Wokeness & The World Economic Forum
Zuby (AKA Zuby Music) is a rapper, podcaster, author, fitness influencer, and Twitter boss. He first came to fame after he broke the female deadlift world record in a viral video and has blown up due to his thoughts on the covid -19 pandemic. In this conversation we went deep into why Zuby…
The Left Forgot To Care
Without a doubt, of the strangest occurrences of the past year has been the left’s failure to care about the damages of the lockdowns. I had always believed that whilst occasionally misguided or over-zealous, most people believed in the ideas of the left because they genuinely cared about people. Yet, throughout 2020 I…
Chatter #78 – Hezues R on Mental Health, Suicide, and Choosing Art Over Algorithms
Hezues R, the creative and film-maker was my guest on today’s show. Amongst other things Hezues created the official fragrance for the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton and ran a handful of advertising campaigns for Sean P. Diddy Combs’. In this conversation we explored some of the ideas that he…
