Teenagers Really Do Struggle to Decipher Their Own Emotions

Teenagers Really Do Struggle to Decipher Their Own Emotions

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 931 , Segment 5

Episode: Brazil Elections, Mental Health and Prisoners, Chinese Moon, Artificial Music

  • Oct 29, 2018 9:00 pm
  • 10:48 mins

Guest: Erik Nook, PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology, Harvard University We’ve all been there – when it feels like the world is coming at you so fast, every moment is tangled with hope and fear, and everything seems to matter but nothing makes sense. Even adults can find it hard to know which pressure is triggering an emotion. Well, now there is research that demonstrates what we long suspected: teenagers, in particular, struggle to differentiate between the complicated swirl of emotions they experience.

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Mental Health Care for Prisoners

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Guest: Dr. Jeffrey L. Metzner, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado. Elizabeth Smart’s kidnapper and rapist Brian David Mitchell is serving a life sentence in prison. But Wanda Barzee – Smart’s other captor – has just been released from prison. Barzee received a 15-year sentence for pleading guilty but mentally ill to her role in the 2002 crime. While in prison, the state parole board says Barzee refused mental health evaluation. Even so, the board determined she had served her time and they couldn’t keep her any longer. Elizabeth Smart and her family believe Barzee is still a danger and implored officials to reconsider. How is it that someone who admits mental illness underlying a serious crime – and maybe even gets a more lenient sentence as a result of that – can refuse treatment while in prison and then be released back into the public?

Guest: Dr. Jeffrey L. Metzner, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado. Elizabeth Smart’s kidnapper and rapist Brian David Mitchell is serving a life sentence in prison. But Wanda Barzee – Smart’s other captor – has just been released from prison. Barzee received a 15-year sentence for pleading guilty but mentally ill to her role in the 2002 crime. While in prison, the state parole board says Barzee refused mental health evaluation. Even so, the board determined she had served her time and they couldn’t keep her any longer. Elizabeth Smart and her family believe Barzee is still a danger and implored officials to reconsider. How is it that someone who admits mental illness underlying a serious crime – and maybe even gets a more lenient sentence as a result of that – can refuse treatment while in prison and then be released back into the public?