Jacqueline Olds, M.D. - Love, Shopping and Cocaine

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Psychiatrist and founder Jacqueline Olds on her startup and her mission to fight loneliness in America. Words of wisdom and lots of laughs in this interview that could actually make your life better.

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Highlights:

 

• Sal Daher Introduces, Jacqueline Olds, M.D., Psychiatrist and Founder
• Jacqueline and Her Husband, Founded GoodLux Technologies to Help Treat Depression without Drugs
• They Created a Device and an App to Help People with Bright Light Therapy
• “We thought this would be a wearable that would remind people that there was a way to treat their depression without using “
• Sal Used the GoodLux Sunsprite to Help His Newborn Grandson Sleep Through the Night
• “The people who lived in places with an abundance of sun sometimes got seasonal depression, because they couldn't stand going outside in the summer, and they were inside like moles.”
• Overcoming Loneliness, Practical Strategies for Finding Connection
• “...a huge percentage of our patients were lonely but they were all embarrassed to admit it, and were thinking that they were the only ones who felt lonely and left out...”
• Marriage in Motion: “...what lasting marriages look like.”
• The Lonely American: Why Americans in Particular Experience so Much Social Isolation
• “There's that undercurrent of American culture that essentially says you're going to be okay if you're on your own...”
• “Fewer people are getting married and fewer people are living with other people and everybody acts like that's a reasonable thing to do...when it's bad for your health mentally and physiologically.”
• “Part of the reason psychotherapy can be helpful, is that you bring out these secrets that you felt terrible about and they sound positively measly when you talk them over with an actual human being...”
• Americans Are Confiding in Fewer and Fewer People
• Opportunities for Human Interaction Are Disappearing Due to Technology and Other Factors
• The Down Side of Interacting with People Only When You Feel Like It
• “To live in an environment where you have so many ties means you have very few choices...”
• The Thickly Connected Social Environment of Sal’s Home Town in Brazil
• Social Life of Grad Students in Boston in the Mid-1960s
• The Town of Roseto and Its Notable Cardiac Health and Longevity Outcomes
• The Secret of Longevity Was the Close Social Bonds of the Community
• The Down Side of Close-Knit Communities
• The Paradox of Choice: How Too Many Options Keep Us from Deciding
• “...COVID has given us all a chance to reset and try to achieve balance in a new way because we were forced to calm down and give up some of our favorite enjoyments like going to restaurants or going to plays or going to concerts.”
• Psychiatrist Jacqueline Olds’ Suggestion for Connecting Younger People Working Remotely
• “Lots of slightly anxious, lonely, depressed people decide, "I don't want anyone to know how needy I feel, so I'm just going to take my light down.’”
• The Value of Witnesses in Marriage
• “...making sure those three o'clock thoughts are just that, nonsense. At eight o'clock in the morning, with coffee in front of you, just, "It's nothing. It was just a nightmare."”
• Love, Shopping & Cocaine
• “When a college student comes in and they're looking all miserable and cold and unhappy with their studies, and then they find somebody that they're starting to fall in love with and suddenly they're full of smiles. You can just see the dopamine practically showing on their face.”
• Parting Thoughts from Jacqueline Olds, M.D., the Wise Psychiatrist