Listen: Am I Depressed?
Many of our isolated lives fit the normal criteria for depression, but of course these aren’t normal times. So when the world is this depressing, how do you tell when you’re actually depressed?
On this episode of Social Distance, the clinical psychologist Jennifer Rapke joins James Hamblin and Katherine Wells to explain how to think through mental-health questions in the time of COVID-19.
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What follows is an edited and condensed transcript of their conversation.
Katherine Wells: Can you introduce yourself for our listeners?
Jennifer Rapke: Sure. This is Dr. Jennifer Rapke. I’m a clinical psychologist and I am currently the chief of child-psychiatry consultation services at Upstate Golisano Hospital in Syracuse, New York.
Wells: So what do your days consist of right now?
Right now, we’re still trying as a hospital to
