Tally and Zanna find out from Dr Rangan Chatterjee why sleep is important and why stress is a big health risk

Our desire to live is strong. But it’s not always enough. And every year, across the world, around a million people take their own lives. Why?

What happens when the biochemistry of the brain’s pleasure and reward system goes wrong? How can something that starts off being pleasurable end up making us feel so low? Mike Williams talks to scientists and former addicts to search for some answers to the power of addiction.

Our guest on this episode of The Addicted Mind podcast is Jonathan Horowitz, founder and director of the San Francisco Stress and Anxiety Center. Jonathan is a clinical psychologist who studied anxiety research in graduate school before transitioning to being a clinician and opening the Stress and Anxiety Center.

In our fifth episode we're delving into the world of quarter life crises, our individual experiences of them, and our advice on recognising when you may be in crisis and how to handle it. 

In this episode we're opening up about our experiences with anxiety - the points in our lives when it's affected us, the symptoms we experience and how we've learnt to recognise our anxiety and overcome it. 

Jan learnt a lot about Wayne from this podcast – and a lot about what it’s like to be a big tough guy with depression. She also learnt why Wayne works so hard to get the message about depression out to the community – and why he does it so well.