All In The Mind

If you open any social media app, you're likely to eventually come across videos of people discussing trauma. 

The hashtag TraumaTok has billions of views...  

So how did trauma take over the internet? And what effect is it having on our mental health? Technology Reporter Ariel Bogle investigates. 

When you get nervous, can you feel it in your stomach? 

The gut-brain connection is something many of us have experienced but probably not given much thought to. 

Research into this connection has led to the rise of a seemingly unexpected treatment for IBS: hypnotherapy. 

Producer Danni Stewart investigates how Irritable Bowel Syndrome can be treated. 

If the only certainty is uncertainty, how do we manage our anxieties about the unknown?

Today we explore why the mind struggles with uncertainty and what we can do to manage it. 

Before she was Dr Alix Woolard, Alix was a teenager grappling with a traumatic event in her family.

It would affect her mental health dramatically, leaving her unsure of her path ahead.

Now, Dr Alix Woolard researches childhood trauma and it's lifelong impacts.

This episode deals with mental health and discusses suicide. Please listen with care. 

Have you ever thought, I wonder what it's like being famous?

Maybe it's something you've always dreamed of, or maybe it's your worst nightmare.

Being famous is something many people aspire to, but the reality can be isolating.

This week, producer Jennifer Leake looks at what fame does to a person's psychology.

What makes people do evil things?

Psychologist Stanley Milgram wanted to understand if people could be led to do awful things, just by being told to do them.

The experiment he would devise to test this would become one of the most infamous examples of unethical studies in the field of psychology: The Milgram Shock Experiment.

But Professor Alex Haslam says that's not the full picture… And the findings are misunderstood.

Learning chess with his young daughter kickstarted a life-long journey of learning for Tom Vanderbilt. Here's what he discovered about being an adult beginner, its benefits, and how kids and adults learn differently.

With relatively benign intentions, Wendell Johnson devised an experiment that would go on to be dubbed the Monster Study, inflicting terrible harm on a group of vulnerable and unsuspecting children.

Popular culture is endlessly fascinated with cults, and they have to capacity to make ordinary people do unthinkable things.

So how do cults reel people in and what does it take to leave?