Sean McFillin
Radically Genuine Podcast / Advertising Executive / Marketing Manager / etc.
Appears in 132 Episodes
72. The Antidepressant Paradox
Millions of people have taken antidepressant drugs. Many experience adverse side effects such as Akathisia and Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD). Some believe the dr...
71. Cannabis and mental health
The United State’s relationship with Cannabis is long and complicated. Designated as a schedule one narcotic by the Federal Government, to state legalization for medic...
70. Digital Detox: Promoting Mental Health in the Screen Age
Social media use is harmful to the mental health of teens. Depression, self-harm, suicide attempts, and suicide have all increased significantly over the last 15 years...
68. Power of meditation
The practice of meditation is a powerful health intervention. Historically, meditation has been a form of spiritual development, but scientific studies and neuroscien...
66. Censoring science
When Elon Musk purchased Twitter, he promised to release information on Twitter's policies that resulted in the suspension of accounts. The Twitter files revealed dist...
12. Life changing habits (Rebroadcast)
As we close out 2022, we share one of our earlier episodes originally released on September 21, 2021. This episode offers suggestions that you can incorporate into you...
65. Meditation, spirituality and emotional wellness w/ Beth Lynch
Beth Lynch is a Medium, Speaker, Author and founder of Inner Light Teachings. She has been helping families heal the loss of loved ones for over 28 years. Beth Lynch s...
64. Medication Induced Akathisia: Chris Paige, LCSW
Akathisia is a common side effect of psychiatric medications characterized by severe restlessness, where the person feels that they are unable to sit still. People who...
63. Sex and Hook-Up Culture
Hook-up culture has evolved through the decades. Physically meeting someone at a party, or a club, has migrated to a digital platform where connections happen with the...
62. James M. Greenblatt, MD: Nutritional interventions in psychiatry
A pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, James M. Greenblatt, MD, has treated patients since 1988. Dr. Greenblatt has lectured internationally on the scientific...
61. Ken Berry, MD: Lies My Doctor Told Me
Dr. Ken Berry is a board certified family physician practicing family medicine. His book, Lies My Doctor Told Me, dispels the myths and misinformation that have been p...
60. Twitter trolls and the decline in civil discourse
Trolls are people who create and spread offensive messages over the internet. These people usually select easy targets like public figures. Some people do it out of bo...
59. Pain Psychologist Dr. Rachel Zoffness
We’re joined by global pain expert and pain psychologist Dr. Rachel Zoffness to discuss how pain works and how we can alleviate the root causes of pain instead of seek...
57. Beliefs, mindsets and the placebo effect
Many of us are familiar with the placebo effect, a beneficial effect produced due to the patient’s belief in that treatment. Psychological factors like mindsets and ex...
7. Are we becoming less resilient? (Rebroadcast)
Human beings have an innate ability to adapt. Throughout history, mankind has endured famines, war, migrations and periods of tremendous uncertainty. As a nation of im...
56. TikTok’s corrosive effect on mental health
When it comes to social media, your views are their source of revenue. Mental health is big business, which provokes some to create content specifically for these plat...
55. Post antidepressant sexual dysfunction
Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD) is a disorder that reduces sexual functioning despite stopping treatment with SSRI or SNRI medications. Lack of awareness and the n...
54. Is Dr. Google making us cyberchondriacs?
Having access to an enormous amount of information in the palm of your hand is powerful and dangerous. Googling health symptoms into your browser can send you in a dir...
53. Drug safety advocate Kim Witczak
Kim Witczak is a leading global drug safety advocate and speaker with over 25 years professional experience in advocacy, advertising and marketing communications. She ...
52. You have the right to remain silent
Who determines the truth? Despite resistance from physicians fearing government overreach, California’s Medical Misinformation Bill AB-2098 was passed in the state sen...
51. The Zyprexa Papers scandal w/ Jim Gottstein
The investigation into the illegal promotion of the drug Zyprexa by the US justice department resulted in the largest sum for both a corporate whistleblower claim and ...
5. Do Antidepressants even work? (Rebroadcast)
For the last two months we have had a number of insightful conversations on psychiatric medications and harm caused by the overprescription of drugs. A good way to clo...
50. Helicopter Parents
In the past 25 years we have witnessed the rise of a new parenting style commonly referred to as “helicopter parenting”. These overprotective and over-involved parents...
49. Antidepressed by Beverley Thomson
Beverley Thomson is a writer, researcher and speaker with a focus on psychiatric medication including antidepressants, benzodiazepines and ADHD drugs; their history, h...
48. Chemical Imbalance Revisited
On July 20, 2022 a review was published in the journal of Molecular Psychiatry. This review compiled 30 years of research into serotonin and depression in full showing...
47. The ADHD controversy
Why did we begin to interpret common childhood and adolescent behaviors as symptoms? The United States has utilized the school environment to determine what is norma...
46. Obedience Pills
Millions of children are dangerously being drugged under a label of ADHD. In his latest book Obedience Pills, author Patrick Hahn has documented the history and evolu...
45. Wounds into wisdom
The collective wellbeing in America has been on a steady decline. Is it because we look too quickly to medicalize human distress, rather than accepting and overcoming ...
44. The war on masculinity
In 2018, the APA released guidelines to help psychologists work with men and boys. These guidelines recognize that some traditional masculine traits are harmful. This ...
43. Jesse Zook Mann
Jesse Zook Mann is an Emmy Award-winning TV producer and film director who became disabled due to the harsh side effects from an anti-anxiety medication. After years o...