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#91 College Mental Health: What’s Changed and What Hasn’t, with Dr. Alexis Redding
Dr. Alexis Redding — developmental psychologist at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and author of the new book on mental health in college — joins us to talk about what's actually changed for college students over the last 80 years, and what hasn't. Spoiler: not much has changed about the experience of feeling lost, lonely, and uncertain at 18-25. What's changed is the volume, thanks to social media turning private struggle into public comparison.
We dig into:
Why our brains are "terrible historians" and how the peak-end rule reshapes how we remember our own hard years
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The skinny
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