State of Mind with Debra Sloss

Episode 17: Just weeks after the COVID-19 outbreak begins, we offer help for those with mental health conditions about how to better cope under these trying conditions. This show is full of practical suggestions you can adopt right away, and includes an extensive list of mental health oriented and mostly free resources.

Episode 16: Our guest tells how she recovered from one of the most dangerous eating disorders, Anorexia Nervosa through a self-created and unconventional path. Learn more about the types and prevalence of eating disorders, commonly held myths, the types of treatments available, and about resources to help support recovery.

Episode 15: Strong family support of a transgender child can make a life-or-death difference and helps cultivate good long-term mental health. Guests share about the unique and often challenging experience of parenting a transgender child. Learn about how to provide support and where to find support for yourself. Originally broadcast in Feb. 2019, this interview has been remixed and updated.

Episode 14: Psychiatric Service Dogs help their owners with mental health conditions like Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression, and severe anxiety. They perform specific tasks enabling their handlers to then function in ordinary ways. Learn more about how these remarkable animals change and improve the lives of their handlers.

Episode 13: Perinatal Depression & Anxiety (PPD) is a mood disorder that affects about 12.5% of women in the US after childbirth. Our guest shares her experience of debilitating PPD after the birth of her twins, how she sought treatment, found support, and wended her way back to wellness and joy in parenting. Learn more about PPD, who’s at risk, and how to get help.

Episode 12: One woman’s story of her struggles leading up to and then being diagnosed as an adult with ADHD. Follow her journey in learning to accept and understand herself, how she sought support and ultimately found strategies and skills so that she could accomplish her dreams. Learn more about the kinds of challenges having ADHD presents, how it differs in adults and children, what to know abou...

Episode 11: Many people grow up in what could be described as “dysfunctional families” which can continue to have mental health and physical health effects well into adulthood. Guests in this show discuss an array of ways to heal from such experiences including the role that the 12- step Program Adult Children of Alcoholics & Other Dysfunctional Families (ACA) can play.

Episode 10: Continuing our series on mental wellness through mindfulness, we explore the health value of learning to practice compassion first with yourself and then with others. One man shares how these skills have helped him to be less judgmental and led him to greater joy and connection with others. Also check out the previous show on developing greater Emotional Balance (Ep. 9).

Episode 9: Simple mindfulness practices can help people learn to manage their emotions more effectively, improve relationships, and increase ease in their lives even during challenging times. Our guest describes how employing these skills has helped her have better relationships at work and with family members who have mental illness and addiction challenges. Also check out the next show on Practi...

Episode 8: Nearly 50% of seniors report social isolation and loneliness. These issues are linked to a variety of long-term physical and mental health risks. One man tells about finding his way from loneliness to community, connection and greater physical and mental health. Our guests also discuss a recent art museum exhibit created by local seniors on this topic. Tune in for this informative discu...

Episode 7: Rabbi Lori bravely shares about losing her mentally ill mother to suicide and her grieving and growing process over the 30+ years since. Guests discuss insights about grief, descriptions of the many ways people grieve in general and specifically following a suicide. Join us for this beautiful story that travels the distance from tragedy to hope. Originally released in Nov. 2018, this in...

Episode 6: The complicated intersection of substance use and metal health problems afflicts nearly 8 million Americans. Our guest shares his remarkable story of recovery, first from what he calls “insanity” and then later from addiction. In this show our guests shed light on what is often called “dual diagnoses,” highlight risk factors, give some advice to parents and share information about local...

Episode 5: One man tells his harrowing story about how his life as a college student was derailed by mental illness and how he found his way to recovery and back to a life he loves living. Learn about the support, education and advocacy programs the National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI) has to offer to those with mental illness and those that love them.

Episode 4: As a result of recent sexual assault testimony at the Supreme Court congressional confirmation hearings, the country erupted in conversations about sexual assault. Our guests share stories about women who successfully defended themselves from attacks and about the many positive impacts self-defense training has on the mental health and wellness of women.

Episode 3: In this STATE OF MIND episode Debra Sloss, LMFT is joined by parent advocate Heidi Korokowski and gender therapist Daniel Blumrosen, LMFT to talk about the unique and often challenging experience of parenting a transgender child, how to provide support and where to find help and support yourself.

Episode 2: Rabbi Lori bravely shares about losing her mentally ill mother to suicide and her grieving and growing process over the 30+ years since. Guests discuss insights about grief, descriptions of the many ways people grieve in general and specifically following a suicide. Join us for this beautiful story that travels the distance from tragedy to hope.

Episode 1: One woman’s story of her struggles leading up to and then being diagnosed as an adult with ADHD. Follow her journey in learning to accept and understand herself, how she sought support and ultimately found strategies and skills so that she could accomplish her dreams. Learn more about the kinds of challenges having ADHD presents, how it differs in adults and children, what to know about...