MindSet with Tom McNulty, M.S. - Behavioral Health, Neurology & Medical Integration

The Episodes Project is a solution-based, three-component initiative designed to bring more compassion, knowledge, skill sets, humanity, and kindness to those experiencing daily or frequent turmoil related to a behavioral health concern. That "dark cloud" of misery during behavioral health moments can drain the strongest among us and tear down our spirit. For those in our community who,...

Sadly, our society is overflowing with misinformation and intentionally incorrect and overestimated proclamations from individuals who are invested in protecting their own incompetence. Their primary objective is to protect and inflate their own sense of self, their flawed knowledge base in an effort to appear superior to others. They defend their intellectually deficient claims in order to contro...

Are we a caring society, globe, neighborhood, school, workplace, or self? The world's attitude about others can be very unsettling to witness or read about. Further, in the United States of America and it's long history of reaching out to those less fortunate has eroded and we are no longer a trusted nation. The Mindfulness Alliance serves as a catalyst and community-builder,offering inn...

NOTES: Listen to Part One, first. We had some infrequent sound quality issues on this recording. We deeply apologize to our terrific guests and our listeners. Hospitality is Good, But It Belongs in the Hospital This is Part Two of a very popular podcast on healthcare hospitality. Our podcast features a foundational discussion of how healthcare hospitality can impact "pain points" in a pr...

Just Imagine! If healthcare isn't the most critical service to others, what could it be? Everyday, in some fashion or experience, we interact with others who treat us very well or we have an encounter that drives up our anxiety or anger. Today's podcast focuses on the practical, well-documented, and proven philosophical approaches to fellow human beings in any healthcare environment. The...

Behavioral Health in America is Badly Broken: The Episodes Project Has A Solution This bold podcast addresses the failure of most behavioral health systems across America for many decades. Tom McNulty, M.S. , with 45+ years in behavioral health (mental illness and addiction), is joined by Invizion's president and president of Episodes Motion Pictures , Peter C. Hertsgaard, M.F.A. As co-creato...

For many years, the message about marijuana was it was a "gateway" drug to other more dangerous and illegal drugs. As a therapist working with adolescents in South Florida in the 1970s and 1980s, that was our clinical message to teens and adults. Pablo Escobar, the Calle Cartel, and Manuel Noreiga were flooding the streets with all kinds of drugs. Today, "street" drugs such as...

Hurricanes, Tornado Storms, Flash Floods, Mudslides, Forest Fires, & Trauma: What To Say and Not Say To Children and Adolescents We get multi-level, print and electronic, and tragically repetitive news stories that adults take for granted. Still, the weather and natural disasters emotionally impact children because the drama leads to the trauma. Recently, several neighbors with children have a...

Tom McNulty, M.S. has 45+ years in behavioral health. As such, he was very excited about interviewing DENT Neurologic Institute's Director of Addiction Medicine, Dawn Harbatkin, M.D. - board-certified in Addiction Medicine and also in Internal Medicine. If you have a family member, neighbor, co-worker, colleague, or friend struggling with addiction to nicotine, alcohol, opioids, or is a multi...

A veteran once asked me, "So, you think you know me?" After 10 seconds, I realized I was full of misconceptions, 'bad intel", and unrealistic expectations. I took the time to listen and better understand and it opened up my eyes to the often insurmountable challenges returning veterans face. I learned that when a military person serves, the whole family serves and is full of em...

Your Children Need Behavioral Health Children are increasingly at risk when it comes to their behavioral health. They need informed parents and trained teachers and administrators to recognize their emotional ups and downs. Children from birth to 17 (and into early adulthood) are more vulnerable today because of multiple factors that can engulf them: 1.) Increased thoughts of self-harm and suicide...

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a form of depression defined by a reoccurring seasonal pattern highlighted by mood changes, irritability, helplessness, pessimism, persistent sadness, decreased energy, hypersomnia, overeating, seasonal hibernation, aggressive behavior, reduced work or school performance, and family history. Millions of Americans (more women than men and more younger people tha...

Lixin Zhang, M.D., Ph. D. is an Attending Neurologist and Director of the Dizziness and Balance Center at DENT Neurologic Institute. His patient focus is on balance disorders, dizziness/ vertigo , sleep medicine, and epilepsy as well as general neurology. Dr. Zhang has 12 years of extensive neuroscience research experience with almost 30 peer-reviewed publications in various neuroscience journals....

Schoolyard bullying is bad enough. We all know what it looks like, or so we think, right? Kids tease each other, but it can get grossly out of hand and end tragically. Imagine bullying behavior in the workplace. Executives, managers, supervisors, and even fellow employees use bullying tactics to intimidate employees to do something they know is wrong. But where do you go? To your boss? To Human Re...

Behavioral health is often an afterthought in today's healthcare environment, but not at DENT Neurologic Institute. The largest neurology practice in the country has an international reputation and a progressive neuropsychiatric approach for patients with challenging behavioral health disorders. Truly a disease of the brain, mental illness can be a treatment-resistant condition for many uniqu...

Welcome to MindSet 2023 with Tom McNulty, M.S. Without a doubt, Fentanyl is today's most frightening, sneaky, hidden killer that has taken the lives of 110,000 people last year. It is hidden in opioids, cocaine, marijuana, and street drugs that get laced with Fentanyl such as Xanax - is anything off limits? No! Unless you get your medicine from pharmacies that use child-proof caps (not guaran...

Social media is an enormous and omnipresent reality of our global communications. It's everywhere! As such, it has its advantages if you take the time to investigate each platform's purpose and the benefits it can bring to your daily life. Sadly, it can also be deadly in ways designers never imagined. Almost 95% of pre-teens and adolescents from countries all over the globe use varieties...

Meet TJ and Kim Burch - two loving parents who saw their son, Nolan go off to West Virginia University from Western New York beaming with pride, enthusiasm, and hope. Like many incoming freshmen, Nolan wanted to get involved and make new friends, so he thought about joining a fraternity. He checked a few out and gravitated to one where he was assigned a "brother" to show him around and t...

Here we go again in America... Another mass shooting, among far too many, this time in Highland Park, Illinois on July 4th during a small-town parade. A 21-year-old, white, male took to the roof of a building along the parade route and opened fire with a high-powered, assault weapon sending a barrage of 70+ bullets into families, children, parents, teens, and grandparents awaiting the traditional...

The violent and deadly world we live in stirs up emotions we may not always recognize. We see death on television news from war, automobile crashes, plane accidents, mass shootings, terrorism, insurrection, random street shootings, and workplace tragedies involving accidents and shootings. The closer you are to a violent event or how we put ourselves in events, such as the war in Ukraine, Buffalo&...

Violent children? Really? Yes, really! Sadly, most of the school mass shootings of children and adults are carried out by other children (20 years of age and younger). Tragically, too many adults and parents knew the child's behavior was unhealthy, risky, hateful, and even deadly, but they failed to act on what they were observing. Violent children are part of our violent landscape in America...

I moved to Buffalo, N.Y. in 1988 and I've lived in WNY ever since. A search firm recruited me to be the first Vice President of Marketing for a psychiatric hospital that opened in 1955. I love the people of Buffalo and I have been highly active in my community far beyond my work in behavioral health. The murderous rampage of assault weapon violence on May 14, 2022, was brought on by an 18-yea...

Welcome to MindSet 2022! This podcast, Gun Violence & Behavioral Health Plans , is a tough subject that requires much more attention than my MindSet 2022 broadcast can deliver. However, it is my hope, as with all my broadcasts, that it makes you step back, think, and move to action. We all know a great deal about gun violence because we live in its world, but do we really understand the depth...

Welcome! This MindSet 2022 podcast begins with a brief reading from City Journals' Business First of an article I wrote in 1999 titled, We Need To Take Care of Our Troubled Children . I wrote a regular column for the newspaper for about 10 years. The opening sentence to the article states, "In many respects, we are horrible role models for our children." You might find that offensiv...

Welcome to MindSet 2022. I’m your host, Tom McNulty. Thank you for joining us for Part Four – the final episode of our four-part series on Suicide. As you know by now, I have focused on individuals between the age of 10-34 because suicide is their second leading cause of death. To emphasize the importance of this topic, I have repeatedly stated that, on average, 130 people commit suicide every day...