Top 3: When AI Gets Too Close, Talking to the Dead, and Hope for Postpartum Depression

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In this episode of The Voyage Cast Top Three, Eddie Eccker unpacks three powerful stories shaping the future of mental health:

1. Meta’s AI scandal — How Facebook’s chatbots crossed the line into dangerous intimacy with children and vulnerable adults, and why loneliness makes simulated connection so risky.
2. AI and grief — The surreal case of Patricia Oliver speaking with an AI recreation of her son, Parkland victim Joaquín “Guac” Oliver, and even CNN’s Jim Acosta interviewing the AI on air. What does this mean for grief, healing, and unresolved mourning?
3. Psychedelic hope — A psilocybin-based treatment shows rapid relief for postpartum depression, offering not just clinical breakthrough but cultural reflection on the hidden struggles of new mothers.

Eddie explores each story through a therapeutic lens—connection, rumination, shame, and healing—inviting listeners to reflect on what it really means to be human in a world where technology and medicine increasingly mediate our deepest needs.

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