E282 Human Dr. Thomas Ousterhout, a psychologist, and member of the Association of Computing Machinery, writes about mental health for TheMighty.com and the “Conquer Your Mind” group, is the author of “The Matrix Has You,” and wrote his dissertation on text emojis! We discuss his own suicide attempt in childhood, his subsequent experience on “lockdown” in a therapeutic boarding school, how society’s mental health may be hanging on by a thread, how the brain “gaslights,” and what it’s like in his home country of Denmark, considered both the happiest and yet, most anti-depressant-prescribed country in the world.

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