Minding Your Mind
Episodes
MYM - Gender Differences and Similarities
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many parents say boys and girls are different from day 1. Boys run around more, girls do quieter activities. Is that just people bringing their own pr...
MYM - Diagnosing Mental Illness
04 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How are mental illness and mental health conditions diagnosed? How often do mental health professionals get it right? Are they getting better at it?&n...
MYM - Hoarding
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us have too much stuff, but find it hard to get rid of any of it. Who knows, you just might need that year 10 maths book one day. For some, ho...
MYM - Ambition
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What makes us want to get to the top? What is ambition? Where does it come from? What is the right mix between having goals, but not being so fo...
MYM - Why Do We Have Kids?
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Do we have kids because of a genetically strong instinct? Or because we want to nurture and love? Could it be because we want to feel important? Or ev...
MYM - Identity
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Finally, the biggest question of all. Who are you? How do we work out our identity? How does it change through life? How does our sense of our who we ...
MYM - Status
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Whenever we talk to someone at work, socially or at home, status is almost always a factor. How is our status determined? Is it all about relative pow...
MYM - Bullies
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone has experienced a bully at school or in the workplace. How do you deal with bullies? Why do some people bully others? If you have any questio...
MYM - How Do You Deal With a Crisis?
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When bad things happen – a loved one dies, a natural disaster, the end of a relationship - how do we deal with it? Can we learn to cope better? If y...
MYM - Free Will
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We think we have free will, but do we? When facing with traffic jams, deadlines, or a free weekend, do we behave very predictably? Is will power all i...
MYM - Narcissists
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Narcissism involves inflated self-importance, inability to handle criticism, a need for admiration and a disregard for the feelings of others. But are...
MYM - Self Esteem
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your self-esteem is what you think of yourself. Do you think you’re a good person, and capable of doing things? Some people have low self-esteem. Ot...
MYM - ADHD
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder? How is it diagnosed and treated? Do kids sometimes grow out of it? If you have any questions or comm...
MYM - Social and Separation Anxiety
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Who gets nervous walking alone into a party? Many of us are shy and socially anxious. What can we do about it? Kids often have separation anxiety, whe...
MYM - What Is The Subconscious?
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What is your subconscious? What is happening in your mind, apart from the thoughts and feelings you are aware of? When you approach a puddle and your ...
MYM - Forgiveness
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When someone does you wrong, do you hold a grudge? And sometimes quite enjoy it? Is taking the high road and forgiving wrongdoers better for your ment...
MYM - Autonomy
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Having a degree of autonomy- the ability to have some control over your life and work- continually comes up as an important factor in good mental heal...
MYM - The Politics of Mental health
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why do mental services lag so far behind the demand for them? Why is there so much difficulty turning government plans into reality? Federal/State, La...
MYM - Eating Disorders
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can our relationship with food become unhealthy? What are the types of eating disorders, and how can each be treated. Ian and James are joined by ...
MYM - Understanding The Mental Health System
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you or someone you care about has a mental health problem, what should you do? Let’s get practical. What do you do? Who do you need to see? How c...
MYM - How Therapy Works
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many try to treat mental illness, or improve their mental health, through therapy or counselling with a psychologist, counsellor or psychiatrist. But ...
MYM - What Is Love?
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What is love? The highest, most blissful state known to humans, or something close to a mental illness? What are the different types of love? Obsessiv...
MYM - What Do Psychiatrists Do?
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Doctors who specialise in mental health, psychiatrists, are at the top of the tree when it comes to treating those with mental illness. But what can p...
MYM - Long Covid
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What is Long Covid, who is most at risk of getting it, and why are we talking about it on a podcast about mental health? If you have any questions or ...
MYM - Should We Talk About Death?
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sadly, we’re all going to die. Most of us spend our lives desperately trying to ignore that uncomfortable truth, but is it a good idea to spend some...
MYM - Short Term, Medium Term Threats
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When threats are right in front of us, whether it be a sabre toothed tiger or Covid, we are usually pretty good at taking action. But what about threa...
Minding Your Mind - More Covid Anxiety
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Covid lockdown there were clear rules to follow. Now, things have changed and Governments are urging us to exercise personal responsibility. The on...
Minding Your Mind - Best of The Year
03 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2021 we recorded 49 eps of Minding Your Mind. In this ep, James and Ian run through their favourite topics and guests, and the pieces of informatio...
Minding Your Mind - Resolutions and Habits
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s all very well to make resolutions, but how do you stop them dissolving into well intentioned nothingness? How do we turn worthy objectives into...
MYM - The 7 Secrets To Happiness
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We examine Irish psychiatrist Anthony Clare’s 7 secrets of happiness. What are they? What did he miss? If you have any questions or comments email I...
MYM Physical Problems that Occur With Mental Illness
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is the relationship between mental and physical health? What sort of physical health issues are those with mental illness more likely to experien...
Minding Your Mind - Addiction
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When does something you enjoy - alcohol, drugs, online porn, shopping, your phone - become an addiction? Are some more prone to addiction ...
Minding Your Mind - Family Dynamics 2 The Christmas Special
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Christmas is supposed to be this perfect family day, but what if it’s not? What if every year the same sniping, arguments and resentments re-surface...
Minding Your Mind - Family Dynamics
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do parents, children, siblings and partners influence each other’s mental health? How do families patterns of behaviour continue to influence us...
Minding Your Mind - New Mental Health Treatments
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ketamine has been used as horse tranquiliser but it might also be able to help treat mental illness. We discuss it, and other novel mental health trea...
Minding Your Mind - Worldwide Attitudes to Mental Health With Miranda Wolpert
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last 20 years, a lot has been done around the world to raise awareness of mental health. Miranda Wolpert, Director of Mental Health at the UK...
Minding Your Mind - Schizophrenia
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Schizophrenia might be the most difficult to understand mental illness. Why do some people hear voices? How do you treat schitzophrenia? If you have a...
Minding Your Mind - Mental Health and Creativity with NEIL COLE
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Some great thinkers, writers and painters have experienced mental illness, but so have plumbers, accountants and school teachers. Is there a link betw...
Minding Your Mind - Technology
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our reliance on technology - phones, screens, apps – is often seen as detrimental to mental health, but there are innovative ways new technology can...
Minding Your Mind - Insomnia
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you can’t get to sleep and don’t get enough sleep, it can affect your mood and your mental health. Why does insomnia happen and what do you do ...
Minding Your Mind - The Brain From Birth to Old Age
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How does your brain change from when you are born until, let’s be optimistic, you reach 100? Is it like a bell curve? Does it start out not being ab...
Minding Your Mind - Mental Health and Humour with Greig Pickhaver
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is exercising your sense of humour good for your mental health? Greig Pickhaver, aka HG Nelson of Roy and HG, This Sporting Life and Bludging on the B...
Minding Your Mind - Hypochondria
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At what point does being vigilant about your health become over-anxious hypochondria? Why does it happen? How do you treat hypochondria? If you have a...
Minding Your Mind - Rick Morton and Trauma
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you experience trauma in childhood, how likely is it to be a cause of later mental illness? To what extent do traumatic experiences become embedded...
Minding Your Mind - Trauma and Memories
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is trauma? If something traumatic happens to you as a child or an adult, how does your mind and memory process it? How can that trauma affect us,...
Minding Your Mind - The yips
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Professional golfers sometimes forget how to putt. They’ve spent years putting thousands of balls, then suddenly they can’t do it anymore. It’s ...
Minding Your Mind - Ross Gittins and Mental Wealth
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
COVID prompted discussion about how we reconcile economic priorities with our collective mental health and wellbeing. Why can’t we have both? Should...
Minding Your Mind - Bipolar
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is bi-polar disorder. How does it manifest? Why does it happen? What do you about it? If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James a...
Minding Your Mind - OCD
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or OCD, is having repetitive, intrusive thoughts, or feeling the need to repeat routines, like washing your hands, coun...
Minding Your Mind - Malcolm Turnbull and Vulnerability
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull talks openly about experiencing depression following his loss of the Liberal leadership in 2009, and what he le...
Minding Your Mind - How Do We Change?
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes we realise we’re not perfect. It’s very confronting. If you want to change something about yourself – become less irritable, or more a...
Minding Your Mind - What Can We Learn About Mental Health From Athletes?
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
High profile athletes look like they’re living the dream, but they are often under tremendous psychological pressures. They might have support from ...
Minding Your Mind - Burnout
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is ‘burnout’? A temporary loss of motivation and energy at work that can be fixed by a week at the beach? Or an indicator of mental exhaustio...
Minding Your Mind - Mental Health In Schools With Mark Scott
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As kids grow up, the two places they learn most about mental health and wellbeing, are at home and at school. What role do educational institutions - ...
Minding Your Mind - What Runs In Families And What Doesn't?
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What runs in families and what doesn’t? We inherit eye colour and height, but can our parents also pass on an anxious temperament? What about optimi...
Minding Your Mind - Risk Taking For Children - Daisy Turnbull
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As children grow up, how do they learn to assess risk and make good decisions? How do parents help kids learn to weigh up risks, when usually their in...
Minding Your Mind - Childhood Anxiety
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Anxiety is the most common mental health problem in children. Children can feel anxious about meeting new people, entering new situations, being alone...
Minding Your Mind - Preventing Suicidal Behaviour – What Can We Do?
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When someone tries to take their own life, it’s common for family, friends and workmates to think, ‘What did I miss?’ What are the signs someone...
Minding Your Mind - Which ‘Self Help’ Really Helps?
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The term ‘Self Help’ is a promise; ‘If you do this activity, you will feel better’. But which Self Help practices actually help? We assess com...
Minding Your Mind - Does Emotion Or Thinking Drive Our Brain?
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Are we humans primarily rational or emotional? Are our decisions driven by carefully worked out thoughts? Or are we bundles of emotion, driven by feel...
Minding Your Mind - Hope And Despair
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Despair and Hope. Opposite sides of the same coin. What is despair? Is it normal and natural, or a sign of poor mental health and something that shoul...
Minding Your Mind - One Person’s Experience of the Mental Health System From Both Outside And In
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Hockey’s first experience of the mental health system was as a young person seeking help. Now he works within the mental health system. We hear ...
Minding Your Mind - Trust
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Who do you trust, and why? With COVID, our trust is being tested. What level of trust do families, communities, workplaces and societies need to opera...
Minding Your Mind - Religion, Spirituality and Mental Health with Geraldine Doogue
20 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is the difference between religion and spirituality? What influence does each have on our mental health? The ABC’s Geraldine Doogue joins us to...
Minding Your Mind - Anger!!!
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is anger useful? Where does it come from? Why is it so hard to control? When we lose our temper, why do we so often regret it? Sure, anger helped us p...
Minding Your Mind - Improving Access to Care For Young People
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What challenges do people, especially young people and women, face when they present for mental health care? Psychiatrist Dr Liz Scott joins us ...
Minding Your Mind - How improving physical health can improve mental health
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the old days we viewed the body and the mind as two very separate things. Not any more. The Health Report and Coronacast presen...
Minding Your Mind - Corporate Australia and Mental Health
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What progress have employers made in taking better care of the mental health of their people? Samantha Mostyn AO, a corporate and not-for-profit leade...
Minding Your Mind - Risk
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the Astra Zeneca ep. It’s about how we calculate risk and make decisions. Is our assessment of risk governed by our rational mind, or by our...
Minding Your Mind - Anxiety
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Anxiety can be important and useful in helping us to be aware of, and react to, threats, study for exams and prepare for job interviews. But why does ...
Minding Your Mind - The Importance of social connection in Indigenous culture
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In ep 5 we discussed the importance of social connection, and whether modern psychology and wellbeing focusses too much on the individual and not enou...
Minding Your Mind - The Importance of Social Connection
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Modern psychology focusses mainly on what you, the individual, can do to improve your mental health, but are we missing something? Humans are social a...
Minding Your Mind: Lockdown and Mental Health
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ian and James discuss lockdown. Being in a Covid lockdown isn’t fun, but until enough of us get vaccinated, they are a fact of life. In lockdown you...
Minding Your Mind - Body Clocks: What Are They and Why Do They matter?
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ian and James discuss body clocks. What are they? How do they work? And how can understanding our own body clock help you control anxiety and depressi...
Minding Your Mind - Mental Illness in Young People and the Benefits of Early Intervention
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ian and James discuss Early Intervention. What is it? How effective is early intervention in diagnosing and treating mental illness, especially in you...
Minding Your Mind - What Is Depression?
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ian and James discuss depression. What is it? How do you know you‘re depressed? Everyone feels sad sometimes, but what are the...