How Understanding Your Brain Chemistry Can Change Your Life
4/22/202620 min
Mike Pesca is the creator and host of The Gist, the longest-running daily news podcast in history, moderator of Not Even Mad, a political debate podcast, and host of Funny You Should Mention, a co-production with the Comedy Cellar, where he conducts in-depth interviews with stand up comedians. On today's show we get into how understanding your own neurochemistry can offer new perspectives on mental health and anxiety. READ: Opinion | The Feel-Good Gene LISTEN: How to address acute anxiety with Terry Rawls
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
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Larry David· Soundbite0:11
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Speaker 10:12
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Larry David· Soundbite0:15
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Speaker 10:16
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Zach· Host0:29
Hey, it's Zach. This is Weirdly Helpful. Couple weeks ago, on April 8th, I released an episode about how I can't stop picking the skin on the bottom of my feet. My friend and collaborator, Laura Holly, the artist and therapist, was there to guide me through that quandary. So I've made, like, 700 episodes of this show, and none of them elicited the kind of response that picking the skin on the bottom of my feet elicited. It is so meaningful to me that you took the time to write, to share your ideas about how I can stop picking. Some of you even called the hotline.
Laura Tersh1:04
Hey, Zach. It's Laura Tersh. I'm here in Palisades, New York. I am also a therapist. I just listened to your recent episode with Laura about picking and mutilation and play, and I just wanted to thank you for that. It was awesome. It reminded me of an old theory I had heard about picking a long while back, about, um, skin picking also being kind of a soothing