An interview series with journalist Pandora Sykes, about the myths, anxieties and trends of modern life.
Doing It Right with Pandora Sykes
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An interview series with journalist Pandora Sykes, about the myths, anxieties and trends of modern life.
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April 30, 2024
We need to talk about postpartum psychosis, with Catherine Cho
<p>So many women experience a postpartum mental disorder after having a baby. For me, it was postnatal depression. For Catherine Cho, it was postpartum psychosis. </p> <p> </p> <p>You might not have thought about postpartum psychosis before. Certainly, I had no idea before I read Catherine’s memoir, that 1-2 in every 1000 women will be affected by it. So why isn’t it being talked about more? Or even, at all?</p> <p> </p> <p>In this episode, Catherine explains how she came to be sectioned on a psychiatric ward, how it impacted her relationship with her baby son and the rest of her family, the depression which followed her psychosis, and how she navigated second time motherhood.</p> <p> </p> <p>I know this episode might feel scary to some of you. But I believe that forewarned is forearmed. That knowing about these things can better protect us and those around us. And that politically, we should be talking more about matrescence - thought to be as big a cognitive change as puberty! - and how to improve maternal mental health.</p> <p> </p> <p>If you or someone you know is struggling, please call your GP or the NHS helpline, on 111. If it is an emergency, please call 999. For more information, visit app-network.org.</p> <p> </p> <p><a href='https://uk.bookshop.org/a/11292/9781526619044'>Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness</a> by Catherine Cho</p> <p>You can read an excerpt of Catherine’s book, <a href='https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/07/my-baby-had-devils-eyes-the-reality-of-postpartum-psychosis'>here</a>.</p> <p> </p> <p>Get in touch at <a href='mailto:doingitrightpod@gmail.com'>doingitrightpod@gmail.com</a></p> <p>Presented by Pandora Sykes</p> <p>Sound by Kelsey Bennett</p> <p>Co-production by Pandora Sykes and Kelsey Bennett</p>
April 30, 2024
Why you might be languishing, with Corey Keyes
<p>Feeling demotivated? Aimless? Without meaning, or purpose? According to sociologist and psychologist Corey Keyes, you could be languishing.</p> <p> </p> <p>In this episode, I talk to the renowned pioneer of mental wellbeing about his theories of languishing and flourishing, the subject of a thought-provoking new book. Corey explains why so many of us are languishing, how it’s different from burnout and depression, and the habits (such as ‘passive entertainment’) which can keep you stuck in the rut. </p> <p> </p> <p>Corey also explores his opposing theory of flourishing, which is not just about “feeling good” but “functioning well’ - and how seeking it saved his life. So what does it mean to flourish? And how can we achieve it?</p> <p> </p> <p><a href='https://uk.bookshop.org/a/11292/9781911709589'>Languishing: How To Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down</a> by Corey Keyes</p> <p>Adam Grant’s piece for The New York Times <a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/well/mind/covid-mental-health-languishing.html'>on languishing</a></p> <p>Corey’s <a href='https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/17/how-to-flourish-sociologist-corey-keyes'>interview</a> with The Guardian</p> <p> </p> <p>Get in touch at <a href='mailto:doingitrightpod@gmail.com'>doingitrightpod@gmail.com</a></p> <p>Presented by Pandora Sykes</p> <p>Sound by Kelsey Bennett</p> <p>Co-production by Pandora Sykes and Kelsey Bennett</p>
April 30, 2024
How tech flattened personal taste, with Kyle Chayka
<p>The homogenisation of popular culture is something I’ve been thinking about for a long time. In my 2020 book, How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right? (which spawned this very podcast), I wrote an essay called Get The Look - inspired by a wildly successful Zara polkadot dress - about how internet culture is encouraging young women to dress as facsimiles of one other.</p> <p> </p> <p>So I was really excited to talk to Kyle Chayka, a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of a book Filterworld, about how technology - and more specifically, the algorithm - has come to shape what we watch, listen to, eat, dress and even how we travel.</p> <p> </p> <p>In this episode, we discuss the paradox of choice, decision fatigue, surveillance capitalism, dumb phones and how to break free of ‘the algo’ in order to re-learn what you actually like.</p> <p> </p> <p><a href='https://uk.bookshop.org/a/11292/9781788706971'>Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture</a> by Kyle Chayka</p> <p>Read Kyle’s writing on tech and social media for The New Yorker <a href='https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/kyle-chayka'>here</a>.</p> <p> </p> <p>Get in touch at <a href='mailto:doingitrightpod@gmail.com'>doingitrightpod@gmail.com</a></p> <p>Presented by Pandora Sykes</p> <p>Sound by Kelsey Bennett</p> <p>Co-production by Pandora Sykes and Kelsey Bennett</p>
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