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
A mental health diagnosis can give a name to what someone is experiencing, but does putting a label on anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, or another condition actually tell us enough about the person we're trying to treat?
Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross take a critical look at the way mental health conditions are diagnosed and the heavy reliance on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, or DSM. They discuss...
Psychosis can be frightening and deeply misunderstood. For someone experiencing it, voices, beliefs, perceptions, and events that seem unreal to everyone else can feel completely real.
Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross break down what psychosis actually means and why losing the ability to distinguish between what is real and unreal can happen for very different reasons. They discuss schizophrenia, bipolar mania, s...
Getting older is supposed to be the stage when life slows down and gets easier. But aging can bring an entirely new set of challenges, from changes in physical health and sleep to retirement, loneliness, loss, anxiety, and questions about how much time is left.
Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross explore the mental and emotional realities of aging and why treating older adults can be very different from treating you...
Mental health medication can be incredibly helpful, but deciding when to start it, how long to stay on it, and when it may be time to stop isn't always straightforward.
Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross take a closer look at psychiatric medication and the importance of understanding why a medication is being prescribed in the first place. They talk about people who remain on medication for years without revisiting...
Loving someone doesn't automatically mean knowing how to build a life together. Relationships change, people change, and the things a couple needed at the beginning may look very different five, ten, or thirty years later.
Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross are joined by licensed marriage and family therapist Darby Luchtan for a candid conversation about what couples therapy actually looks like and why wait...
Trauma affects far more than the moment it happens. In this conversation, psychiatrists Dr. David Gross and Dr. Andrew Rosen explore how both major life events and the smaller, repeated experiences of emotional pain can shape mental health, relationships, trust, and the way we move through the world.
The discussion examines the difference between "big T" and "little t" trauma, why many people never connect thei...
Mental health has come a long way, but many people still hesitate to ask for help because they worry it means they're weak, damaged, or somehow failing. Those beliefs can quietly keep people from getting the care they need.
Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross take a thoughtful look at where the stigma around mental health comes from and why it continues to exist today. They explore the history of mental illness, com...
Parenting has never been easy, but today’s parents are navigating screen time, social media, anxiety, endless advice, and the constant pressure to get everything right.
Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross are joined by psychologist Dr. Alexandra Licata for a thoughtful and relatable conversation about the challenges facing children, adolescents, and their parents. They talk about the rise in childhood anxiety,...
Depression, anxiety, and other emotional struggles can look similar on the surface, but they don't always come from the same place. Sometimes what feels like depression is grief, overwhelming stress, disappointment, or anxiety wearing a different face.
Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross walk through how experienced mental health clinicians sort through those differences. They explain why the first complaint isn't a...
Finding help is hard enough. Figuring out whether the person helping you is actually the right fit can be even harder.
Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross take an honest look at what patients should pay attention to when choosing a therapist or psychiatrist. They talk about the difference between credentials and true specialization, why experience matters, and how to recognize when a clinicia...
Finding a therapist can feel overwhelming, especially when most people aren't sure what all the different titles, credentials, and specialties actually mean. Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross talk honestly about what patients should know before starting treatment, from licensing and training to the differences between therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and coaches.
Along the way, they explore some of the le...
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 still need it?
They walk through what actually goes into that decision, from how someone is sleeping and eating to whether they can get out of bed, and why "I'm suffering" doe...
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 without addressing the underlying psychology can backfire, how early psychoanalytic approaches actually drove some patients to drink more, and what the monkey bars have to d...
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 picture tells a much messier story. Confirmation bias plays a starring role: we tend to seek out what confirms what we already want to believe, and the marijuana industry has b...
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 it than most people think.
A specific region deep in the brain called the nucleus accumbens gets reprogrammed by repeated drug use, eventually overpowering the logical, ...
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, including decades of therapists and psychiatrists operating in separate silos, rarely talking to each other, and why that siloed approach hasn't served patients well. They're honest about...
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 families can respond before things escalate.
Dr. Moore walks through how she approaches the classic school day stomachache: ruling out medical causes, recognizing patterns,...
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 treat a child who learns or experiences the world differently.
Dr. Seidman pushes back on the idea that neurodivergent kids fit neatly into any one category. Every child has stre...
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. It’s not the same as going to a dentist or fixing a car, and people feel that difference in a very real way.
They also get into what happens once you decide to reach out. ...
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 situations like traffic or crowded spaces to something deeper and harder to explain. That sense of being trapped isn’t just about the moment. It connects to fear, loss...
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