Join registered nurse and psychologist, Dr. Lisa Day, for a discussion about digital media addiction. The rise in depressive disorders since the advent of the smartphone and social media is discussed, as well as, the impact on our mental well-being.

Dr. Lisa Day is a founding member of Digital Tech Initiative and a practicing psychologist for over twenty years with Meier Clinics.

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Join Tommy Dahlborg, Jr. (Author, Blogger, Financial Analyst) who happened to be born in the age of the internet: The iGen Generation. Tommy talks about how digital media impacts his life and what he and his friends do to foster authentic human connection.

Raised in Gorham, Maine, Tommy is a proud son to Thomas and Darlene Dahlborg, a proud brother to Samantha and Haylee Dahlborg, and a proud follower of Jesus. Over the years, Tommy has grown to have a passion in fitness and has lost 80 + lbs over the course of four years. Tommy is a financial analyst by day with a passion for sharing the Gospel as a Young Life Leader by evening. The Big Kid continues to passionately play basketball weekly and loves others daily.

For more information about Tommy visit his blog at https://heartofthelion.wordpress.com and www.tbkid.org.

Join Dr. John Huber with Dave Ballenberger discussing Smartphone usage and how it has impacted our mental health. We cover a lot of ground from the facts around using our phones as well as why it is a public safety warning if an individual claims they are a doctor and they aren't. Fact checking when it comes to social media boasting and false claims is not often undertaken. This is dangerous especially when it comes to our mental health. Check credentials and question, question, question.

Dr. John Huber is a forensic psychologist, comedian, and founder of Mainstream Mental Health. www.mainstreammentahealth.org

David Ballenberger, MSW is the CEO of an electronic healthcare records company for behavioral health, NextStep Solutions, Inc. www.nextstepsolutionsinc.com

Dr. Mark Leeds joins us to discuss digital media and where you might land as a user: addiction or distraction.

Mark Leeds, DO, host of The Rehab Podcast on the Mental Health News Radio Network, is an osteopathic family physician with a focus on addiction care in his medical practice. He provides affordable and personalized medical treatment to patients suffering from substance use disorder. With a small and dedicated practice, he is able to give his patients the time and attention required to help them through this difficult, chronic illness. Dr. Leeds’ approach to addiction medicine allows for a level of support and attention that is not possible in a large, primary care clinic. On The Rehab Podcast, Dr. Leeds interviews guests on the topic of healthcare and addiction treatment to explore the expanded universe of ways to help people traveling on the path to recovery from addiction.

Dr. Leeds studied osteopathic medicine at Des Moines University after completing his undergraduate degree in mathematics at Vassar College. During his early years of medical practice, he began to study and apply the concept of developing useful electronic medical records software within a primary care setting. Since 2004, Dr. Leeds has contributed to the OpenEMR open source medical records software project, developing bug fixes and improvements. He has served on the board of directors of Open Source Medical Software and as a lecturer at the Monroe Osteopathic Medical Association Annual Conference in Islamorada, Florida.

Dr. Leeds has contributed significant tools to the OpenEMR project which have been available to the public for many years, including: Formscript, a self-contained, automated form building program to facilitate the creating of plug-in forms for OpenEMR; and CAMOS (Computer Aided Medical Operating System), an EMR within an EMR. This comprehensive tool is still maintained as part of the core of the OpenEMR open source electronic medical records software and used by physicians all over the world.

Dr. Leeds continues with the efforts of software development, providing unique electronic medical records solutions to local physicians. In recent years, he has applied his experience, talent and skill to the development of content marketing, using existing open source software online to reach out to prospective patients. He is a pioneer in building a micro-practice and creating a patient base using technology-based marketing skills. He regularly meets with other physicians interested and involved in micro-practices to discuss solutions to building their medical practices using technological solutions.

www.drleeds.com

Join Kristin Walker and Sahen Garcia as they talk about the new metrics for love in this digital world.

Sahen is a U.S. Marine and the CEO of Uptown Motives, a Social Media & Digital Marketing Agency, Founding Member of Digital Tech Initiative and former VP of Centro Latino Americano’s board. He was diagnosed at an early age with Chronic Depression and a Hyperactive Brain. As he grows older so does his passion to learn more about mental health in order to help others, especially today’s youth because he has witnessed the incredible positives to the unimaginable negatives that Social Media can enable first hand.

www.uptownmotives.com

Join Dr. Lisa Day, Kristin Sunanta Walker and John W. Whitehead discussing social media and how it has been used to help make sex trafficking a billion dollar industry.

John Whitehead is an attorney and author who has written, debated and practiced widely in the area of constitutional law, human rights and popular culture.

Widely recognized as one of the nation’s most vocal and involved civil liberties attorneys, Whitehead’s approach to civil liberties issues has earned him numerous accolades and accomplishments, including the Hungarian Medal of Freedom and the Milner S. Ball Lifetime Achievement Award for “[his] decades of difficult and important work, as well as [his] impeccable integrity in defending civil liberties for all.” As nationally syndicated columnist Nat Hentoff observed about Whitehead: “John Whitehead is not only one of the nation’s most consistent and persistent civil libertarians. He is also a remarkably perceptive illustrator of our popular culture, its insights and dangers. I often believe that John Whitehead is channeling the principles of James Madison, who would be very proud of him.”

Whitehead’s concern for the persecuted and oppressed led him, in 1982, to establish The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties and human rights organization located in Charlottesville, Virginia. Deeply committed to protecting the constitutional freedoms of every American and the integral human rights of all people, The Rutherford Institute has emerged as a prominent leader in the national dialogue on civil liberties and human rights and a formidable champion of the Constitution. Whitehead serves as the Institute’s president and spokesperson.

Whitehead has filed numerous amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court, has been co-counsel in several landmark Supreme Court cases and continues to champion the freedoms enshrined in the Bill of Rights in and out of the courts. His law review articles have been published in Emory Law Journal, Pepperdine Law Review, Harvard Journal on Legislation, Washington and Lee Law Review, Cumberland Law Review, Tulsa Law Journal and the Temple University Civil Rights Law Review.Whitehead is also a member of various groups that seek nonpartisan consensus solutions to difficult legal and constitutional issues through scholarship, activism and public education efforts.

John Whitehead is a frequent commentator on a variety of legal and cultural issues in the national media and writes a weekly opinion column, which is distributed nationwide. He has authored more than 30 books on various legal and social issues. His most recent books include the best-selling Battlefield America: The War on the American People and the award-winning A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State. In addition, he wrote and directed the documentary video series Grasping for the Wind, as well as its companion book, which focus on key cultural events of the 20th Century. The series received two Silver World Medals at the New York Film and Video Festival.

Born in 1946, John W. Whitehead earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Arkansas in 1969 and a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1974. He served as an officer in the United States Army from 1969 to 1971.

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Join Kristin Sunanta Walker and comedian, Frank King, for a discussion about social media and its impact on mental health.

Frank King, aka The Mental Health Comedian, is a Suicide Prevention and Postvention Public Speaker and Trainer who turned a lifelong battle with depression into a keynote worth spreading.After writing for the Tonight Show for 20-plus years and performing corporate comedy, Frank’s attention…His mission is to end the stigma surrounding mental health by share his insights with anyone and everyone who will listen in an effort to “start the conversation.”

Frank has thought about killing himself more times than he can count. Like many of us, depression and suicide run in his family. He addresses his own trials and tribulations using a tool people from all walks of life can relate to, humor. With his TED Talk A Matter of Life or Death” he openly addresses topics considered taboo in today’s society.

As a Motivational Public Speaker and Trainer who travels the world, Frank uses comedy and personal life lessons to help break the ice and start an engaging conversation amongst those struggling with mental and emotional stability. This act of faith helps those struggling to find a voice to express themselves. Additionally, it helps create a pool of common knowledge where those who suffer, and those who care about them, can swim.

He believes that where there is humor there is hope. And where there is laughter there is life… Nobody dies laughing.

Frank is originally from North Carolina and now spends his off days in the Pacific Northwest. He travels the United States and beyond spreading his message, hoping to end the stigma surrounding mental health, and influencing the general public to start the conversation.

www.thementalhealthcomedian.com