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Two Shrinks and a Mic
Psychologist Dr. Andrew Rosen and psychiatrist Dr. David Gross bring over 30 years of friendship and mental health experience to the mic. Each episode breaks down topics like anxiety, depression, and relationships into real talk you can actually use. Honest, insightful, and easy to understand—this is the conversation about mental health you've been waiting for.
Episodes
51 episodes
Ep. 50 - When Do You Actually Need Medication and When Do You Just Need to Talk It Out
Dr. David Gross and Dr. Andrew Rosen dig into one of the harder questions in mental health care: how do you know when talking isn't enough, and medication makes sense? And on the flip side, if you're already on something, how do you know if you...
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Ep. 49 - When Saying No Isn't Enough: A Psychiatrist's Honest Take on Addiction Treatment
Dr. Rosen and Dr. Gross sit down with addiction psychiatrist Dr. Adam Demner to talk about what actually happens — and what doesn't — when someone tries to get clean.The conversation covers a lot of ground: why treating addiction wit...
Ep. 48 - Is Weed Really as Harmless as Everyone Says?
Dr. David Gross and Dr. Andrew Rosen have been watching the marijuana conversation shift for decades and they're not buying the hype. They dig into why so many people are convinced marijuana is harmless, or even healing, when the clinical p...
Ep. 47 - Why Quitting Drugs Isn't as Simple as Giving Up Scallops
Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross have spent decades sitting across from people who genuinely want to stop using drugs or alcohol and simply can't. This conversation gets into why that happens, and why willpower has far less to do with i...
Ep. 46 - When Medication Enters the Picture
Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross pull back the curtain on one of the most loaded questions in mental health care: when does someone actually need medication, and who decides that?The two talk through how the field got here, inclu...
Ep. 45 - When Your Child's Stomach Hurts — and It Might Be More Than a Stomach Bug
That familiar Monday morning stomachache might be telling you something. Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross sit down with pediatrician Dr. Celina Moore to explore what it really means when a child's emotions show up in their body — and how fa...
Ep. 44 - Raising Kids Who Think Differently: One Psychologist's Honest Take on Neurodiversity, Testing, and the Families Behind It All
Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross sit down with Dr. Ryan Seidman, a child psychologist and clinical director of the Children's Center for Psychiatry, Psychology, and Related Services, to talk about what it actually looks like to raise and tr...
Ep. 43 - Why Getting Mental Health Treatment Is Harder Than It Should Be
Getting help sounds simple until you actually try to do it. Dr. Rosen and Dr. Gross walk through the less obvious reasons people hesitate, from shame and privacy concerns to the quiet belief that we should be able to handle things on our own. I...
Ep. 42 - Why Anxiety Feels Like Being Trapped and What Actually Helps
A lot of anxiety comes back to one uncomfortable feeling people don’t always have words for — feeling stuck, like you need to get out but can’t.Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross sit with that idea and follow it from everyday situation...
Ep. 41 - What It Really Means When You Can’t Shut Your Brain Off
This is a conversation that keeps coming up, both in the office and in everyday life, especially as more people start to question whether what they’re experiencing is ADHD or something else.Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross walk throu...
Ep. 40 - When Does Distracted Become ADHD?
ADHD gets talked about everywhere now, but living with attention struggles is rarely as simple as a label.Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross take a step back and look at how focus, distraction, and restlessness actually show up over ti...
Ep. 39 - Why People Want Therapy But Still Avoid It
Sometimes the hardest part of getting help isn’t finding a therapist. It’s actually walking through the door.Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross talk honestly about the many reasons people struggle to follow through with mental health c...
Ep. 38 - Why Trauma Treatment Is More Complicated Than People Think
Many of the issues people seek therapy for depression, anxiety, relationship problems, substance use often have trauma somewhere in the background. The challenge is that trauma is not always obvious, and it does not always look the way people e...
Ep. 37 - What Trauma Really Is and Why It Stays With You
Everybody’s heard the word trauma. It’s everywhere right now. But what does it actually mean in real life, outside of headlines and diagnostic labels?Dr. David Gross and Dr. Andrew Rosen walk through how our understanding of trauma has c...
Ep. 36 - When a Kid’s Stomachache Is Really Anxiety
Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross sit down with Dr. Celina Moore to talk about what it looks like when emotions show up in a child’s body, and why behavior deserves the same curiosity we give a fever or a cough.They walk through the c...
Ep. 35 - ADHD Treatment Isn’t Just About Medication
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder gets talked about like a disease, but it’s more complicated than that. Dr. David Gross and Dr. Andrew Rosen pick up their conversation by unpacking the controversy around ADHD, what it actually means for...
Ep. 34 - Is Everyone ADHD or Are We Just Distracted
Social media has made ADHD a household term, but the lived reality is a lot messier and more human than a checklist or a trending label.Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross talk honestly about how attention and distractibility show up ac...
Ep. 33 - Why Therapy & How To Pick A Therapist
Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross spend time on the parts of mental health care that don’t show up in textbooks or research papers. The human side. What it actually feels like to sit with a clinician. How hope gets communicated without being...
Ep. 32 - Why Old Beliefs Still Run the Show
Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross talk through why choosing a type of therapy can feel so confusing and why so much of the work comes down to the beliefs people carry with them from earlier in life. They reflect on how psychotherapy evolved ...
Ep. 31 - Why Therapy Feels So Confusing and How to Make Sense of the Options
Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross start with a simple question they hear all the time. What actually is psychotherapy, and why does it feel so hard to understand?The conversation moves from the early days of talk therapy and Freud’s i...
Ep. 30 - Why Asking for Help Still Feels So Hard
Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross explore one of the biggest obstacles in mental health care: the shame and stigma that still surround asking for help. Even as conversations about mental health have become more open, many people continue to ...
Ep. 29 - Choosing the Right Mental Health Treatment and Knowing When to Stop
In this episode of Two Shrinks & A Mic, Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross kick off the new year by answering two of the most common and confusing questions in mental health care: what type of treatment should you choose, and how...
Ep. 28 - Psychiatrist vs Psychologist Explained: How to Choose the Right Mental Health Care
Choosing the right mental health professional can feel overwhelming, especially when the differences between psychiatrists, psychologists, and other therapists are not always clear. In this episode of Two Shrinks & A Mic, Dr. Andrew Rosen a...
Ep. 27 - Who Do I See First? How to Choose the Right Mental Health Professional for Your Needs
In this episode of Two Shrinks & A Mic, psychologist Dr. Andrew Rosen and psychiatrist Dr. David Gross tackle one of the most common and confusing questions people face when struggling with mental or emotional health issues. Who sh...
Ep. 26 - Why We Can’t Sleep Anymore and How to Fix It Revisited
Psychiatrist Dr. David Gross and psychologist Dr. Andrew Rosen return to one of their most downloaded conversations to revisit the complicated relationship we all have with sleep. In this reair, the doctors break down why so many people struggl...