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Barking Mad — 52 episodes

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Episode 51: Mental Health shouldn’t depend on your postcode

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Episode 50 Retail Therapy: Does Shopping Really Heal the Heart?

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Episode 49 Why Dogs Are Good for Your Brain

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Episode 48 Why You Can't Sleep (and What Your Brain Is Doing)

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Episode 47 Can Medicinal Cannabis Really Improve Mental Health?

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Episode 46: How Ordinary People Become Extremists: The Psychology of Radicalisation

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Episode 45: Playing with Fire: The Psychology of Firefighter Arson

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Episode 44: I Do Not Consent: The Psychology of Sovereign Citizens

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Episode 43: All Bets Are Off: The Psychology of Gambling Addiction

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Episode 42: Trust No One: the Psychology of Conspiracy Theories

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Episode 41: The Mental Health of Mental Health Carers

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Episode 40: What’s in a Name? Identity, Labels & Belonging in a Complex World

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Episode 39: What Motivates Mental Health Professionals?

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Episode 38: Rational Suicide? Tough Questions, Kind Answers

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Episode 37: Breaking Bread (and Myths): Demystifying Eating Disorders

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Episode 36 Behind the Bars: Mental Health Inside Prison Walls

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Episode 35 Behind the Ward Door: Demystifying Psychiatric Inpatient Admission

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Episode 34 High Hopes & Hard Evidence: Making Sense of Medicinal Cannabis

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Episode 33 Me, Myself & Well-Being: When Self-Care Goes Solo

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Episode 32 Retail Therapy: Does Shopping Really Heal the Heart?

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Episode 31 Turn It Up: When Music Meets the Mind

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Episode 30 When the Bot Believes You

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Episode 29 Is Everyone Mentally Ill Now?

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Episode 28 Behind the Bark: How We Make Barking Mad

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Episode 27 Why Dogs Are Good for Your Brain

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Episode 26 Fear Factor – Unpacking Our Phobias

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Episode 25 Burnout is not a badge of honour

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Episode 24 What Makes Ordinary People Become Extremists?

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Episode 23 NDIS – Promise, Pitfalls, and Psychiatry

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Episode 22 Private Ride Through Cancer Part 3

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Episode 21 Private Ride Through Cancer Part 2

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Episode 20 Private Ride Through Cancer Part 1

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Episode 19 Public Danger or Public Mistrust? Schizophrenia and the Reality Behind the Headlines

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Episode 18 Can’t Sleep, Won’t Sleep: The Mental Health Cost of Bad Rest

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Episode 17 Why Are ADHD Diagnoses Exploding?

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Episode 16 Why Men Don't Ask for Help

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Episode 15 Scroll, Post, Repeat – The Psychology of Doomscrolling

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Episode 14 Does Faith Play a Role in Psychiatry?

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Episode 13 Can Psychedelics Treat Mental Illness?

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Episode 12 Mental Illness and Work

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Episode 11 From Breakdown to Recovery - a Personal Journey

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Episode 10 Is Grief and Loss a Mental Illness?

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Episode 9 Is Mental Illness Easy to Fake (and why would you do it?)

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Episode 8 Misconceptions about Mental Illness

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Episode 7 Alcohol & Mental Health: What Every Drinker Should Know

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Episode 6 Where Have All the Services Gone?

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Episode 5 Where Does The Law Meet Mental Illness?

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Episode 4 What Actually Causes Mental Illness?

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Episode 3 Are Psychiatric Treatments as Bad as They Sound?

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Episode 2 A Range of Ailments

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Episode 1 The Psychiatric Landscape

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