It has made me totally rethink my antipathy towards myths and ancient texts.Įpisode 21: The Biology Of Depression and Stress In this episode we look at the biological causes of stress and depression and identify the differenences between everyday or reactive depression and clinical or endogynous depression.Įpisode 20: Is Depression Becoming More Widespread? In answer to another listener question we look at the prevalance of depression today and ask whether or not 21st century living is making us ill.Įpisode 19: Identity Crisis and Jean-Paul Sartre How is our identity formed and how do we learn to fit into human society? How do others define us? We explore these questions using social psychology and the work of existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre.Įpisode 18: Dealing With The External World and The Forbidden The first episode to deal entirely with questions from a listener.
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Episode 30: The Handbrake On My Life This week I respond to a very in depth and interesting listener question about the whole business of living a decent life and being satisfied with what we have.Įpisode 29: Self Sabotage and Lack of Podcasts This week the podcast returns from oblivion to explain why its been away and why its creator has been self sabotaging.Įpisode 28: Negative Thinking Part Five: Colin Wilson This week we begin an exploration of the existential and psychological ideas of the prolific English writer Colin Wilson.Įpisode 27: Negative Thinking Part Four: Anxiety Part four of our mini-series, prompted by a listener question, discusses anxiety and its root causes.Įpisode 26: Negative Thinking Part Three: Anger In part three of our mini series we look at an aspect of negative thinking - anger - and trace the roots of its effect on our thoughts and behaviour.Įpisode 25: Negative Thinking Part Two: Triggers From The Past and Subconscious Decisions In part two of our mini-series on Negative Thinking we look at how to recognise negative triggers from the past and subconscious versus conscious decision making.Įpisode 24: Negative Thinking Part One: Camus and The Myth of Sisyhpus In the first of a mini series we answer another listener question and tackle the work of existentialist Albert Camus and how to accomodate the absurd into our lives while avoiding nihilism.Įpisode 23: Jordan Peterson's Bible Lectures: How They Have Changed My Thinking Part Two Concluding my look at Jordan Peterson's Bible lecture series and how it has changed my thinking on myths and religious stories.Įpisode 22: Jordan Peterson's Bible Lectures: How They Have Changed My Thinking I explore why watching Jordan Peterson's series of Bible lectures has had such an impact on my cynical old atheist way of thinking.
Episode 31: Filtering Out The Negative Finishing off last weeks listener question we look at how to counteract the negative influences the world throws at us and how to deal with an overwhelming number of decisions. Episode 32: Coronavirus, Scaremongering and Fake News In this extra mini episode I vent my frustration at the media coverage of the coronavirus outbreak and do some research to get to the truth of what exactly the virus is and how worried the average person should be about it.
Recent studies have shown that dreams are a vital element in efficiently filing away your memories and processing negative emotions. Episode 33: Sleep, Dreams and Emotional Memories This week we explore sleep and dreaming and their importance to mental health. Something to take you out of yourself and away from the misery and uncertainty of the current global situation. Episode 34: A Welcome Distraction This week I present a welcome distraction: a really mad short story entitled "Ethelbert's Sunday Afternoon". Being alone doesn't have to lead to loneliness. I am also on a continuing forty year mission to sort out my own head space.Įpisode 35: Solitude This week we look at finding the positives of solitude in the current global situation. My aim for this podcast is to provide a genuinely practical and useful insight into the human condition while avoiding all the usual self-help cliches. We discuss varying aspects of psychology, philosophy and mental health and the whole awkward business of trying to be a human being.
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