15. Adoption, Drugs, and Mental Health

A discussion with Erin Lyddane. We talk about mythology, adoption, whether it's worse to find out you were adopted later in life or to always know, sex education and times our parents confronted us about sex and masturbation, the funeral industry, donating your body to science, death and mental health, bipolar disorder, being a brown person in a white catholic school, dads hating socialism, whether poorer countries have happier people, Paraguay and Peru, cats dying, cigars and our first time doing drugs, alcohol and huffing paint, our experiences on acid, bad trips, right and left brain and how the right brain plays an important role in psychedelic trips, split brain phenomena, meditation, How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan, attachment styles, Myers-Briggs and astrology, and the Big 5 personality test.