Ted Lasso cast members Jason Sudeikis, Hannah Waddingham, Brett Goldstein, and Brendan Hunt joined the White House Press Briefing with Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre earlier this week to talk about the importance of mental health and encouraging people to check in with their friends, family, co-workers and others to help support and take care of each other.
Many of us can conjure moments when politics made us feel sad. But how often do those feelings translate into more serious forms of depression or other mental health issues? And if politics does make us depressed, what do we do about it?
Christopher Ojeda has spent the past few years exploring these questions and he joins the Democracy Works podcast to talk about the relationship between depression and democracy.
Ojeda is an assistant professor of political science at the University of California Merced and author of the forthcoming book The Sad Citizen: How Politics Makes Us Depressed. He visited Penn State to give a sneak preview of this important work on the relationship between democratic engagement and individual mental health. Ojeda discussed how to meet the demands that democracy places on us without sacrificing our mental health in the process.
