Coping with Midlife Issues

In this episode we have on as a guest Adina Fox, a licensed clinical social worker from Ashland, Ohio. After some initial banter about whether we would prefer to identify as Gen Xers or millennials, we talk to Adina about the general notion of midlife crises and whether they would be related to actual mental health disorders, what types of remedies she seeks with her patients, how she determines whether patients should seek counseling, advice on whether you might want to consult a therapist, some of her own reflections on entering the midlife stage, her experience working with elderly patients who are approaching death, and her thoughts on how therapy is portrayed on TV and in the movies. We end the episode with a Where were you when segment, in which we reflect back on the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion.