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teach @ Penn & Columbia; books #BenjaminRush #FredHarvey #GiaCarangi bios & #BitterPills #NewRabbi #Husbandry; w/PJK #CommonStruggle #ProfilesInMHCourage; next #WilliamGibbsMcAdoo bio; prev VF, GQ, Glam, Phillymag; invented word "fashionista" (sorry)

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A collage of Eat My Globe season 12 episodic covers:
Top Row: Interview with Ming Tsai; MFK Fisher, Interview with Eleanor Barnett
Middle Row: Lamb; Interview with Lou Diamond Phillips; Interview with Steve Sando of Rancho Gordo
Bottom Row: Delia Smith, Interview with Stephen Fried; Onion

“Thank you for tuning in to Season 12”
“EatMyGlobe.com/season-12”

Includes the Eat My Globe logo of Simon Majumdar's likeness using the initials "S" and "M" holding a globe on a platter with the words, "Eat My Globe," underneath.

A collage of Eat My Globe season 12 episodic covers: Top Row: Interview with Ming Tsai; MFK Fisher, Interview with Eleanor Barnett Middle Row: Lamb; Interview with Lou Diamond Phillips; Interview with Steve Sando of Rancho Gordo Bottom Row: Delia Smith, Interview with Stephen Fried; Onion “Thank you for tuning in to Season 12” “EatMyGlobe.com/season-12” Includes the Eat My Globe logo of Simon Majumdar's likeness using the initials "S" and "M" holding a globe on a platter with the words, "Eat My Globe," underneath.

We hope you enjoyed season 12 of #EatMyGlobe. And thank you to all our guests — Ming Tsai, Eleanor Barnett, Lou Diamond Phillips, Steve Sando, Stephen Fried — for an engaging conversation.

Until next time.

#FoodHistory #FoodHistoryPodcast

27.01.2025 15:20 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Teen mental health struggles in 'Adolescence' are bigger than social media, expert says Journalist Stephen Fried has been covering teenage mental health for over 40 years. He hopes Netflix viewers learn the right lesson from the series “Adolescence.”

Journalist Stephen Fried has been covering teenage mental health for over 40 years. He hopes Netflix viewers learn the right lesson from the series “Adolescence.”

15.04.2025 19:26 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

you have a good memory!

21.05.2025 16:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
Mental Health Awareness Month reading list from the Cambridge Public Library and Cambridge Public Health Department: “The Tell” by Amy Griffin, “Exploding Head” poems by Cynthia Marie Hoffman, “My Good Bright Wolf” by Sarah Moss, “The Monster and the Mirror” by K. J. Aiello, “Black Grief and Healing: Why We Need to Talk About Health Inequality, Trauma and Loss” by Yansie Rolston and Patrick Vernon OBE, “Profiles in Mental Courage” by Patrick J. Kennedy and Stephen Fried, “Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder” by Alexander Kriss, “The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health” by Camilla Nord, “Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America” by Rachel Louise Moran, “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness” by Jonathan Haidt, “Sociopath: A Memoir” by Patric Gagne, and “The Chair and the Valley: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and the Outdoors” by Banning Lyon.

Mental Health Awareness Month reading list from the Cambridge Public Library and Cambridge Public Health Department: “The Tell” by Amy Griffin, “Exploding Head” poems by Cynthia Marie Hoffman, “My Good Bright Wolf” by Sarah Moss, “The Monster and the Mirror” by K. J. Aiello, “Black Grief and Healing: Why We Need to Talk About Health Inequality, Trauma and Loss” by Yansie Rolston and Patrick Vernon OBE, “Profiles in Mental Courage” by Patrick J. Kennedy and Stephen Fried, “Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder” by Alexander Kriss, “The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health” by Camilla Nord, “Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America” by Rachel Louise Moran, “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness” by Jonathan Haidt, “Sociopath: A Memoir” by Patric Gagne, and “The Chair and the Valley: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and the Outdoors” by Banning Lyon.

We created a Mental Health Awareness Month reading list with the #Cambridge Public Library. The list highlights powerful stories, science and research, and reflections that inspire learning, empathy, and action. Check out one of these featured reads and continue the conversation beyond May!

07.05.2025 13:03 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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One day only: kindle e-book of PROFILES IN MENTAL HEALTH COURAGE by Patrick J. Kennedy & Stephen Fried on special sale for just $1.99

amzn.to/4iW0qDZ

03.04.2025 01:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The 2025 Nora Magid Mentorship Prize at @upenn.edu has been awarded to @anushamathur.bsky.social & #JaredMitovich.

Release with links: stephen-fried.medium.com/nora-magid-m...

Info on Nora Prize: writing.upenn.edu/awards/nora_...

27.02.2025 22:45 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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#BenjaminRush said it best in 1800 after what was, at the time, considered the most divisive Presidential election in American history:
"In battle men kill, without hating each other; in political contests men hate without killing, but in that hatred they commit murder every hour of their lives."

12.02.2025 19:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thanks to Henry Platt for coming to Kelly Writers House today to talk about his mental health care experiences at Penn and since graduating, which he shared in our recent book PROFILES IN MENTAL HEALTH COURAGE. He was moving and inspiring!

here's the video: youtu.be/uM1BWBUUaMM?...

12.02.2025 14:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A collage of Eat My Globe season 12 episodic covers:
Top Row: ing Tsai; MFK Fisher, Eleanor Barnett
Middle Row: Lamb; Lou Diamond Phillips; Steve Sando of Rancho Gordo
Bottom Row: Delia Smith, Stephen Fried; Onion

“Thank you for tuning in to Season 12”
“EatMyGlobe.com/season-12”

Includes the Eat My Globe logo of Simon Majumdar's likeness using the initials "S" and "M" holding a globe on a platter with the words, "Eat My Globe," underneath.

A collage of Eat My Globe season 12 episodic covers: Top Row: ing Tsai; MFK Fisher, Eleanor Barnett Middle Row: Lamb; Lou Diamond Phillips; Steve Sando of Rancho Gordo Bottom Row: Delia Smith, Stephen Fried; Onion “Thank you for tuning in to Season 12” “EatMyGlobe.com/season-12” Includes the Eat My Globe logo of Simon Majumdar's likeness using the initials "S" and "M" holding a globe on a platter with the words, "Eat My Globe," underneath.

I hope you enjoyed season 12 of my #FoodHistory podcast, #EatMyGlobe. Thanks to all my great guests, Ming Tsai, Eleanor Barnett, Lou Diamond Phillips, Steve Sando, Stephen Fried. Thanks to @producergirl.bsky.social & @sazyrock.bsky.social for their hard work. And, thanks for tuning in. Til next time

27.01.2025 15:10 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Harvard Public Health Magazine names PROFILES IN MENTAL HEALTH COURAGE by Patrick J. Kennedy & Stpehn Fried one of BEST PUBLIC HEALTH BOOKS OF 2024 along with "The Anxious Generation" by Jonathan Haidt & "On Call" by Anthony Fauci. @duttonbooks.bsky.social
harvardpublichealth.org/policy-pract...

14.12.2024 17:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The importance of being Uncle Wolf The art of uncling, through the generations

Hope you'll get a chance to read my new piece about my endless fascination with the role of UNCLES in our lives & my quest to be a more perfect uncle

Just posted online from Deseret Magazine's Dec. issue, with darling pics of all my nieces & nephews & me uncling

www.deseret.com/magazine/202...

12.12.2024 13:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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for the holidays, share amazing stories that can change the way you see the world--past, present and future.

09.12.2024 20:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Patrick J. Kennedy & Stephen Fried are thrilled that voice actor Johnny Heller's reading of PROFILES IN MENTAL HEALTH COURAGE was selected among this amazing group of books! (Heller also read A Common Struggle).
@stephenfried @johnny_heller

04.12.2024 21:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#WorldAidsDay #GiaCarangi
New trade paperback of #ThingOfBeauty by @stephenfried.bsky.social with new 30th anniversary afterward!

01.12.2024 20:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This year for the holidays, give a book that can start a conversation that can save a life.

27.11.2024 16:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#PatrickKennedy & @stephenfried.bsky.social proudly share this #MiamiBookFair #CSPAN2BookTV session w/ #GabrielleAnwar #ShareefMalnik & #SusanHoltzman of #NAMI discussing #ProfilesInMentalHealthCourage & the personal & political power of being open about mental health
www.c-span.org/video/?54003...

26.11.2024 14:31 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Hampton Synagogue's "Author Discussion Series" for Jewish Book Month: Stephen Fried
YouTube video by JBS The Hampton Synagogue's "Author Discussion Series" for Jewish Book Month: Stephen Fried

Pleased to share a session I did with @avbronstein.bsky.social @ #HamptonSynagogue about the book & my work writing in-depth but with hope about #mentalillness, #addiction & #suicide; talk was wonderfully edited for #JewishBookMonth by the JBS Jewish Broadcasting Service
youtu.be/fQigheIin08?...

23.11.2024 14:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tonite on #JewishBroadcastingService
#StephenFried joins Rabbi Bronstein to discuss #ProfilesInMentalHealthCourage: powerful book capturing the resilience & bravery of Americans with mental illness.
11/21:7&10pm 11/22:1am,8:30am&12:30pm ET
Channel info: jbstv.org/find-us
Livestream: lnkd.in/eXZBxSuk

21.11.2024 16:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

thanks so much!

19.11.2024 20:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@stephenfried.bsky.social I just finished your 'RUSH' book. What an outstanding book! Thank you for writing it!!

18.11.2024 22:17 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Two recent videos I'd love to share:
Patrick J. Kennedy & I with the brave & fascinating subjects of our book PROFILES IN MENTAL HEALTH COURAGE at the Kennedy Center: youtu.be/zlFsIi6tjYY?...

Documentary about 15 years of Fred Harvey History & my book Appetite for America: fredharvey.info/fredtv/

16.11.2024 14:48 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ICYMI
on mental health & addiction
#PROFILESinMHCOURAGE
@cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy
bit.ly/4dBP85r
#beck bit.ly/3a6y1g2
#KayJamison tinyurl.com/2wcmx84d #FalseMem tinyurl.com/4j9jb3xx
tinyurl.com/38zab45f #teensuicide tinyurl.com/5n8j9xfc pic.x.com/cC9KaIfFe1

15.11.2024 01:47 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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