Episode #217: Dr. Meg Jay

In Episode #217, clinical psychologist Meg Jay joins Osi to discuss the mental health challenges young adults in their 20s face today, exploring why anxiety and depression have become so prevalent in this generation and examining how societal attitudes and approaches contribute to the issue. Meg Jay, PhD, is a developmental clinical psychologist who specializes in twentysomethings. She is the author of The Twentysomething Treatment: A Revolutionary Remedy for an Uncertain Age, the cult classic The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now and Supernormal: The Secret World of the Family Hero. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages and her work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review and on NPR, BBC and—maybe most important for her audience—TikTok.