Mental Health Download: Exploring Mental Illness, Suicide, Homelessness and Incarceration

Mental Health Download: Exploring Mental Illness, Suicide, Homelessness and Incarceration

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Mental Health Download: Exploring Mental Illness, Suicide, Homelessness and Incarceration episodes

  • COVID-19 Series: Steve Hahn's Tips for Parents

    On today's episode, Steve Hahn, of The Parent Child Center of Tulsa, offers COVID-era tips for parents. Topics include monitoring a child's internet and social media usage while in quarantine. He also talks about how parents can balance working from home with their home life. Listen via your favorite podcast listening app or online at https://mhaok.org/covid19-resources

    Donate to Mental Health Association Oklahoma's COVID-19 Relief Fund at mhaok.org/donate.

    35 min
  • NEW COVID-19 Virtual Support Groups

    Dr. Rebecca Hubbard, director of Outreach, Prevention and Education for Mental Health Association Oklahoma, comes on the show to celebrate new Association virtual support groups for managing stress related to COVID-19.

    Groups begin Saturday, April 11th.

    Call 918-585-1213 or 405-943-3700

    Fill out webform at mhaok.org/supportgroups

    17 min
  • COVID-19 Series: Kassie McClung's Covering the Pandemic

    Kassie McClung joined the staff of The Frontier nonprofit journalism organization in July 2016. In this conversation, Kassie talks about what it's like to report from the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic in Oklahoma. She also talks about taking care of her own mental health by, among other things, baking delicious bread.

    DONATE TO MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OKLAHOMA AT MHAOK.ORG/DONATE

    33 min
  • COVID-19 Series: Songs for our Mental Health During Pandemic

    Our guest is Lucas Oswalt, mental health advocate, musician and amazing human. Together, Matt Gleason and Lucas explain why their Spotify list, "Songs for our Mental Health," means so much to them.

    LISTEN TO THE SPOTIFY LIST: http://ow.ly/F3yk50z4WfU

    Also, Lucas mentions this Leonard Cohen video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AMMb9CiScI

    34 min
  • COVID-19 Series: Homeless Outreach Continues

    On today's episode, our guests are MIke Brose, CEO of Mental Health Association Oklahoma, and Jessica Kelly, who heads up Mental Health Association's Homeless Street Outreach program. 

    We wanted to have Jessica on the show because her team is really making a difference during the most challenging time that we can imagine.

    Please donate to Mental Health Association Oklahoma's COVID-19 Relief Fund Today on Facebook or mhaok.org.

    27 min
  • COVID-19 Series: Becky Gligo on Reaching Out to Tulsans Experiencing Homelessness

    DONATE TO MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OKLAHOMA'S RELIEF FUND AT MHAOK.ORG

    On today's episode, our guest is Becky Gligo, who is the Housing Policy Director for the City of Tulsa. Greg Shinn, our Associate Director and Chief Housing Officer, interviews his friend and collaborator, Becky. 

    Be sure to tune in around the 17-minute mark to hear Becky talk about the City of Tulsa's response to helping people experiencing homelessness during this challenging time.

    34 min
  • COVID-19 Series: Association Relief Fund

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    You're listening to the Mental Health Download from the nonprofit Mental Health Association Oklahoma. I'm Kristy Sturgill, the director of marketing for the Association. On today's episode, my co-host is Wendi Fralick, the Association's chief administrative officer.

    [00:00:24] Wendi, thank you so much for being here, and I just want to start this conversation by talking about the Association's COVID-19 Relief Fund. It's going on right now on the Mental Health Association Oklahoma Facebook page. The fundraiser is critical to support the Association's programs and services during this challenging time.

    [00:00:46] Wendi, as you know, there is a lot of work happening on the front lines to protect vulnerable populations and our unsheltered neighbors. Mental Health Association Oklahoma is providing meals for people experiencing homelessness. We're maintaining support groups virtually through Zoom. Our amazing staff is just working very hard to protect our tenants living in the apartment complexes. And we know that we can count on our supporters to help us reach our $15,000 goal in the next two weeks. We've already raised about a thousand dollars so we're making great progress, but we definitely need more people donating today. It's super easy. Just visit our Facebook page, search for Mental Health Association Oklahoma, then click "donate." You can also donate on the Association's website at mhaok.org.

    [00:01:34] We're going to have a conversation about how the donations are going to make an impact  To do that, Wendi and I are going to talk with our Chief Financial Officer, Jessica Phillips.

    [00:01:45] The Mental Health Download starts .... now.

    22 min
  • COVID-19 Series: TFD's Michael Baker on 10 Days of Quarantine
    Michael Baker is our guest today. He's the director of Emergency Medical Services for the Tulsa Fire Department. We talk to Michael on the 10th and final day of his quarantine from a virus that has symptoms very similar to COVID-19. His Covid test came back negative. This is a wonderful conversation that finds Michael contemplating how life in quarantine has transformed him, how EMS is serving people during a time of COVID, and, well, that he could really use a cup of QT coffee.
    36 min
  • Covid-19 Series: Sarah Bacon on Anxiety, MDMA-Guided Therapy & Fleeing NYC
    On today's episode, our guest is Sarah Bacon. She is a writer, rare disease patient & advocate. Most recently, New York Magazine published her covid-19 related story titled "I’m in the High-Risk 2 Percent. It’s Exhausting." LINK: https://www.thecut.com/2020/03/im-in-the-high-risk-2-percent-its-exhausting.html
    We asked Sarah, who lives in New York City but is taking refuge in a Florida hotel, to talk about life during covid-19.
    Additionally, I was particularly excited to talk about her truly remarkable Washington Post story titled "Anxious and depressed as a scary disease destroyed her lungs, she turned to ecstasy for relief. Here’s what happened." 
    LINK: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/anxious-and-depressed-as-an-ultrarare-condition-destroyed-her-lungs-she-turned-to-ecstasy-for-relief-heres-what-happened/2019/11/15/cda32bb8-da49-11e9-ac63-3016711543fe_story.html
    In the story, Sarah explains that a healer she sees from time to time to quell her anxiety suggested she try MDMA-guided therapy.
    The drug, which was banned in 1985, does have risky side effects, Sarah wrote.
    In 2017, however, the Food and Drug Administration granted MDMA-assisted psychotherapy a breakthrough-therapy designation for post-traumatic stress disorder, setting it on a fast track for review in clinic trials and potential approval.
    As of November 2019, when the story was published, Phase 3 clinical trials were underway across 16 sites in the United States, Canada and Israel. Participants have included first responders, military vets, and flood and sexual assault victims.
    As Sarah explained, "During previous, smaller-scale phase 2 clinical trials, for which the data are complete, 68 percent of patients no longer “qualified” for PTSD diagnosis after 12 months, according to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), a nonprofit research group that has funded the trials and worked with the FDA on the program. LINK: https://maps.org/
    In the story, Sarah goes on to write that, quote, "My first MDMA-guided therapy session was among the more intense days of my life."
    You can find Sarah online here: Twitter: @SarahHogate and Instagram: @Baconiste
    25 min
  • Covid-19 Series: Paul Gionfriddo, Mental Health America's CEO

    On today’s episode, our guest is Paul Gionfriddo, President and CEO of Mental Health America.

    Paul has worked in a variety of health and mental-health related positions during a career spanning more than forty years.

    He joined Mental Health America in 2014. His policy memoir, “Losing Tim: How Our Health and Education Systems Failed My Son with Schizophrenia,” was published in 2014.

    We talk to Paul about mental health in a time of Covid-19.

    Important links:

    https://mhanational.org/covid19

    https://screening.mhanational.org/screening-tools

    Questions Asked:

    - So my first question is: How is COVID-19 affecting your life right now?

    - What do you foresee as being the biggest mental health implications of COVID-19?

    - What is MHA doing as it relates to the COVID-19 response to help people?

    - What are you all recommending MHA affiliates do to continue helping those we serve?

    - What strategies will make an impact as we contend with physical isolation and disrupted schedules?

    - What coping techniques would you recommend for people who have lost their jobs and businesses or are struggling to keep their jobs/businesses?

    - How do you think this crisis will affect the national suicide rate and how can people help someone they are worried about even though they are social distancing?

    22 min

About Mental Health Download: Exploring Mental Illness, Suicide, Homelessness and Incarceration

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Mental Health Association Oklahoma created The Mental Health Download podcast to share stories each week about mental illness, homelessness, incarceration and suicide, and how each can impact our lives in a profound way.