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Feb 2021
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Beautiful Shorties: Mental Health Resear...

Chris Gethard
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A woman studying the effects of poverty on the mental health of low income mothers shares what she's learned. She also opens up to Geth about her struggles with depression and how Ketamine treatments changed her life.

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