Doctor Mike

Senator Schumer, thank you so much for your work.

Great to be here.

Thank you.

We've done some good things together.

happy and healthy.

I feel like listeners or viewers might hear your definition of that and be like, oh, I dated one of those.

Yeah.

Welcome back to the Checkup Podcast.

Today, we're diving into the world of Dr. Eric Bender, a psychiatrist whose insights on the human mind have been featured everywhere from the New York Times to viral videos with GQ.

He's not just a doctor, he's a storyteller who makes the science of mental health actually click.

You may have enjoyed his work on Batman Arkham Shadow, where he served as a consultant to ensure the science was spot on.

In this episode, we're diving into the surprising ways Hollywood gets mental health terribly wrong, where it nails it perfectly, and even into the social media trend of diagnosing your ex with a personality disorder.

Trust me, you'll walk away from this one seeing media and even your own mind in a different way.

Let's get started.

You've become quite vocal about how mental health is portrayed in media.

If you had to say positive, negative, neutral impact on your work day-to-day working with patients, how has media impacted them?

That's true.

So how, if you're doing a report card, do you think it's been trending on the good side or a bit more problematic?

I always worry when talking about mental health subjects or covering them, there's a way to talk about them responsibly where you are pointing out that this is not the normal way that you would go about diagnosing things, but you're doing this as a form of entertainment in order to educate.

Sometimes people blur the lines of that.