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
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...
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 through what they often see when someone comes in convinced they have ADHD, only to realize the picture is more layered. Difficulty focusing, unfinished projects, feeling mentally s...
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 time. They move between childhood and adulthood, where things don’t always look the same but often feel just as frustrating.
They sit with the gray area. The overlap between perso...
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 care. Someone may call a clinic asking about therapy, even schedule an appointment, and still never show up. That gap between wanting help and accepting it is something cl...
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 expect.
Dr. David Gross and Dr. Andrew Rosen talk through why trauma can be difficult to recognize and even harder to treat. Memories connected to traumatic experiences can live...
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 changed over time. It used to mean war, plane crashes, near death experiences. Now we know it can also include childhood emotional abuse, chronic instability at home, witn...
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