Two Shrinks and a Mic

Send us Fan Mail Depression, anxiety, and other emotional struggles can look similar on the surface, but they don't always come from the same place. Sometimes what feels like depression is grief, overwhelming stress, disappointment, or anxiety wearing a different face. Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross walk through how experienced mental health clinicians sort through those differences. Th...

Send us Fan Mail Send us Fan Mail Finding help is hard enough. Figuring out whether the person helping you is actually the right fit can be even harder. Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross take an honest look at what patients should pay attention to when choosing a therapist or psychiatrist. They talk about the difference between credentials and true specialization, why experience matters, and ho...

Send us Fan Mail Finding a therapist can feel overwhelming, especially when most people aren't sure what all the different titles, credentials, and specialties actually mean. Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross talk honestly about what patients should know before starting treatment, from licensing and training to the differences between therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and coaches....

Send us Fan Mail Dr. David Gross and Dr. Andrew Rosen dig into one of the harder questions in mental health care: how do you know when talking isn't enough, and medication makes sense? And on the flip side, if you're already on something, how do you know if you still need it? They walk through what actually goes into that decision, from how someone is sleeping and eating to whether they...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Rosen and Dr. Gross sit down with addiction psychiatrist Dr. Adam Demner to talk about what actually happens — and what doesn't — when someone tries to get clean. The conversation covers a lot of ground: why treating addiction without addressing the underlying psychology can backfire, how early psychoanalytic approaches actually drove some patients to drink more, and what...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. David Gross and Dr. Andrew Rosen have been watching the marijuana conversation shift for decades and they're not buying the hype. They dig into why so many people are convinced marijuana is harmless, or even healing, when the clinical picture tells a much messier story. Confirmation bias plays a starring role: we tend to seek out what confirms what we already want to beli...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross have spent decades sitting across from people who genuinely want to stop using drugs or alcohol and simply can't. This conversation gets into why that happens, and why willpower has far less to do with it than most people think. A specific region deep in the brain called the nucleus accumbens gets reprogrammed by repeated drug use, eventua...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross pull back the curtain on one of the most loaded questions in mental health care: when does someone actually need medication, and who decides that? The two talk through how the field got here, including decades of therapists and psychiatrists operating in separate silos, rarely talking to each other, and why that siloed approach hasn't serv...

Send us Fan Mail That familiar Monday morning stomachache might be telling you something. Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross sit down with pediatrician Dr. Celina Moore to explore what it really means when a child's emotions show up in their body — and how families can respond before things escalate. Dr. Moore walks through how she approaches the classic school day stomachache: ruling out m...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross sit down with Dr. Ryan Seidman, a child psychologist and clinical director of the Children's Center for Psychiatry, Psychology, and Related Services, to talk about what it actually looks like to raise and treat a child who learns or experiences the world differently. Dr. Seidman pushes back on the idea that neurodivergent kids fit neatly i...

Send us Fan Mail Getting help sounds simple until you actually try to do it. Dr. Rosen and Dr. Gross walk through the less obvious reasons people hesitate, from shame and privacy concerns to the quiet belief that we should be able to handle things on our own. It’s not the same as going to a dentist or fixing a car, and people feel that difference in a very real way. They also get into what happens...

Send us Fan Mail A lot of anxiety comes back to one uncomfortable feeling people don’t always have words for — feeling stuck, like you need to get out but can’t. Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross sit with that idea and follow it from everyday situations like traffic or crowded spaces to something deeper and harder to explain. That sense of being trapped isn’t just about the moment. It connects...

Send us Fan Mail This is a conversation that keeps coming up, both in the office and in everyday life, especially as more people start to question whether what they’re experiencing is ADHD or something else. Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross walk through what they often see when someone comes in convinced they have ADHD, only to realize the picture is more layered. Difficulty focusing, unfinish...

Send us Fan Mail ADHD gets talked about everywhere now, but living with attention struggles is rarely as simple as a label. Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross take a step back and look at how focus, distraction, and restlessness actually show up over time. They move between childhood and adulthood, where things don’t always look the same but often feel just as frustrating. They sit with the gray...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes the hardest part of getting help isn’t finding a therapist. It’s actually walking through the door. Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross talk honestly about the many reasons people struggle to follow through with mental health care. Someone may call a clinic asking about therapy, even schedule an appointment, and still never show up. That gap between wanting help and acc...

Send us Fan Mail Many of the issues people seek therapy for depression, anxiety, relationship problems, substance use often have trauma somewhere in the background. The challenge is that trauma is not always obvious, and it does not always look the way people expect. Dr. David Gross and Dr. Andrew Rosen talk through why trauma can be difficult to recognize and even harder to treat. Memories connec...

Send us Fan Mail Everybody’s heard the word trauma. It’s everywhere right now. But what does it actually mean in real life, outside of headlines and diagnostic labels? Dr. David Gross and Dr. Andrew Rosen walk through how our understanding of trauma has changed over time. It used to mean war, plane crashes, near death experiences. Now we know it can also include childhood emotional abuse, chronic...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross sit down with Dr. Celina Moore to talk about what it looks like when emotions show up in a child’s body, and why behavior deserves the same curiosity we give a fever or a cough. They walk through the classic school day stomachache and how a pediatrician thinks about patterns, ruling out medical causes, and then zooming out to what might be happ...

Send us Fan Mail Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder gets talked about like a disease, but it’s more complicated than that. Dr. David Gross and Dr. Andrew Rosen pick up their conversation by unpacking the controversy around ADHD, what it actually means for kids and adults, and why it’s better understood as a disorder within a neurodiverse spectrum rather than a life sentence. They walk throug...

Send us Fan Mail Social media has made ADHD a household term, but the lived reality is a lot messier and more human than a checklist or a trending label. Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross talk honestly about how attention and distractibility show up across a lifetime. From restless kids labeled as troublemakers to adults juggling work, relationships, and nonstop stimulation, the conversation ke...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross spend time on the parts of mental health care that don’t show up in textbooks or research papers. The human side. What it actually feels like to sit with a clinician. How hope gets communicated without being promised. Why optimism, sincerity, and presence matter just as much as any method or treatment. They talk about how people often arrive fe...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross talk through why choosing a type of therapy can feel so confusing and why so much of the work comes down to the beliefs people carry with them from earlier in life. They reflect on how psychotherapy evolved from rigid models into approaches that focus more directly on how people think, interpret events, and act on those interpretations. The con...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross start with a simple question they hear all the time. What actually is psychotherapy, and why does it feel so hard to understand? The conversation moves from the early days of talk therapy and Freud’s influence to why so many people still expect a couch and silence when they walk into an office. They talk honestly about why long, insight focused...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross explore one of the biggest obstacles in mental health care: the shame and stigma that still surround asking for help. Even as conversations about mental health have become more open, many people continue to equate needing support with weakness or personal failure. They unpack how centuries old views of mental illness shaped modern misunderstand...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Two Shrinks & A Mic , Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross kick off the new year by answering two of the most common and confusing questions in mental health care: what type of treatment should you choose, and how long should you stay in it? They break down the differences between medication and psychotherapy, explain why a thorough evaluation matters, and e...