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United States of PTSD

Matthew Boucher LICSW LCDP and Co-host Dr. Erika Lin-Hendel

Season One: Mental health concerns are on the rise in the United States. This podcast will look at the influencing factors contributing to the decline of our culture. With the rise of school shootings, political divisiveness, increasing levels of hate, and a chronic war of peoples" rights, we have entered a domestic war that never ends. Our podcast will look at whether this is done by design or is it an abject failure. We will discuss it from a clinical and common-sense perspective. Secondarily we

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55:36

S 4 E: 4 Trauma and Disordered Eating

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2026/04/06

Send us Fan Mail Ali shares her story of growing up with a parent who struggles with addiction and behaviors associated with it. Ali candidly talks about how she learned to cope and how difficult it was for her to come to terms with some of her mother's behaviors. We discuss the unique and powerful bond from child to mother and how we can compartmentalize to protect our own sanity. Ali describes one of her coping skills as controlling food. She shares her story of prog...

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S:4 E: 3 Gaslighting and Politics

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2026/03/22

Send us Fan Mail Gaslighting is more than just someone “lying.” It’s the slow, repeated pressure that makes you question your memory, minimize your needs, and hand over your trust in your own judgment. Erika and I explore what this looks like at a deeper level and how it can create PTSD in us. This extends further when political rhetoric and gaslighting become synonymous. We talked about how capitalism thrives on keeping us divided and powerless. We need to work together to ...

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47:05

S4 E:2 The Violence/Gun Epidemic hits RI, again.

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2026/03/01

Send a text Another mass shooting occurs in RI while our political system continues to dole out empty thoughts a prayers. I intentionally did not use the name of the shooter in the podcast, because I believe in taking away the identity of people who engage in atrocities. As a society we have made murder porn and crime shows our bread and butter. This is part of the PTSD epidemic. Since we recorded this episode the United States of Israel launched an attack on Iran. &n...

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45:46

S:4 E: 1 WTF

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2026/02/15

Send a text Erika and I wanted to start off season 4 by acknowledging that many of us are having WTF moments. In the 4 weeks that took off there have been multiple assassinations by ICE/Gestapo/IDF, while multiple genocides continue and they are funded by the US. We have seen the release of the Epstein Files and we are currently reading through them. We hope each and every person will continue to listen, engage in self-care, and work on creating safe places for the people w...

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58:50

S3 E:28 Extra Episode. Brown University Shooting and...

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2025/12/21

Send us a text We came back from our planned break to speak about the Brown University shooting, the weight of living near it, and the everyday systems that fail to protect people. Healthcare costs, campus safety, and community care weave into a candid, grounded conversation. • premium spikes, broken enrollment, and access gaps • moral injury of vulnerability in a crisis • what the videos miss and what students carry • policing delays, dismissive responses, and data manipulation • harm reduc...

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S 3 Season Three Thanks And A Holiday Pause

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2025/11/30

Send us a text Happy Holidays everyone. See you in 2026 and thank you for all the support. Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/hartzmann/no-time-to-die License code: S4CEQWLNQXVZUMU4 Artwork and logo design by Misty Rae. Special thanks to Joanna Roux for editing help. Special thanks to the listeners and all the wonderful people who helped listen to and provide feedback on the episode's prerelease. Please feel free to email Matt topics or sugges...

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S3 E:27 Healing Past Childhood Trauma

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2025/11/12

Send us a text Wendy returns for reunion episode. Per listener request Matt shares some of his own personal trauma and how it impacted his relationships before and after his resolution. Below is the poem I wrote when I was 33. This is how raw the feelings were back then. Thankfully the pain has been healed. I am a bastard, thanks to you. I bet 33 years ago you never imagined, your polluted seed would create the man that stands here I N V I S I B L E Di...

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60:44

S3 E: 26 When Empathy Becomes Policy: Food, Power,...

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2025/11/02

Send us a text Starvation isn’t a metaphor—it’s policy made real. Erika and I sit down on Halloween. A holiday that is ironically about asking for snacks from strangers. We map how a government shutdown can remove the barely sustainable payment rails for SNAP, why many families get far less than a livable food budget, and how the benefits cliff punishes a $1 raise with thousands lost in childcare, healthcare, and food support. The math doesn’t lie, and neither do checkout lines ...

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S 3 E: 25 Lila’s Voice from Gaza

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2025/10/13

Send us a text We share Lila’s frontline account from Gaza and the mutual aid network she helps lead for children and orphans, weaving her poetry with hard facts about blockade, targeted healthcare, and the human cost of deliberate deprivation. We explain how to get funds and attention to people on the ground and how to build people power where you live. • bonus context for Lila’s interview and work • mutual aid logistics under bombardment and blackout • how funds reach Gaza thro...

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58:58

S 3 E: 24 Who counts as human when grief goes public?

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2025/10/06

Send us a text We unpack reactions to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the messy truths of trauma responses, and why some grief gets megaphones while other suffering stays invisible. Trauma reactions come in many forms. But what is it that makes such a tidal wave of reactions when the targets are high profile white men, but a resounding silence when it is from other groups. • setting intentions, limits, and non‑violence • why man‑made violence destabilizes more than disas...

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S 3 E: 23 Holy Terror Part 2

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2025/09/22

Send us a text Amy returns to United States of PTSD to complete her powerful story of surviving clergy sexual abuse and the long, winding path to healing through religious deconstruction. Following her abuse at age 15, Amy faced institutional gaslighting from the Catholic Church. Officials questioned what she "did to seduce" the priest and sent her parents a deliberately vague letter with double negatives that absolved them of responsibility. When they finally agreed to pay for therapy, they...

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S:3 E 22 Holy Terror: When Faith Becomes Fear

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2025/09/07

Send us a text Every survivor has a story that deserves to be heard. In this powerful conversation, we're joined by Amy, a social work student and survivor of religious trauma who shares her journey through high-control Catholicism and the devastating abuse she experienced, at the hands of a trusted priest. Amy takes us through her childhood immersed in religious fear – developing religious OCD as she performed rituals, before bed, to ward off demons she was taught would possess her if she f...

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S 3 E: 21 Echoes of Cambodia's Killing Fields

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2025/08/18

Send us a text Please welcome guest speaker Julie Botom-Richny Chhay. Julie shares her family's experience during the Cambodian genocide, drawing parallels to current genocide in Gaza and how generational trauma continues to impact survivors and their descendants. • Cambodia's genocide under Pol Pot's regime killed nearly 2 million people between 1975-1979 • The Khmer Rouge specifically targeted educated people - teachers, doctors, artists, and even those who wore glasses • Julie's mot...

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S 3 E: 20 Weaponizing the Human-Animal Bond: Police...

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2025/08/09

Send us a text Dog training experts Zak George and Bree join us to explore the dark side of animal training and how the weaponization of the human-animal bond perpetuates systems of oppression. We examine how our treatment of animals reflects deeper societal values about power, control, and our approach to both animal and human behavior. • Traditional dog training methods often rely on pain and fear, including shock collars, prong collars, and physically harmful techniques • The police dog s...

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70:35

PTSD and Coming Out: A Palestinian American's Journey

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2025/07/27

Send us a text John Demarjain shares his emotional journey of coming out as a gay Palestinian American, revealing the complex intersection of cultural identity, family values, and personal authenticity in Western and Middle Eastern contexts. • Western culture emphasizes (by design) individualism and independence, at the cost of community while Middle Eastern culture prioritizes family and religion • The concept of "pinkwashing" attempts to force the LGBTQ+ population to turn a blind eye to ...

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S 3 E:19 School gun fire, corrupt politics, and...

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2025/07/08

Send us a text A foreshadowing of the national impending healthcare collapse as we see the beginnings of it in Rhode Island. As mental health workers face increasing dangers from understaffing, violence, and corporate retaliation against unionization efforts. Matt shares his terrifying classroom experience with possible gunfire, highlighting educators' vulnerability in America's gun violence epidemic, while Erika exposes the expanding network of privatized immigrant detention centers th...

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S 3 E: 18 War, Trauma, and the Fight for Humanity

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2025/06/15

Send us a text In this raw, unedited conversation, we process our emotional responses to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran while exploring how intergenerational trauma shapes our understanding of war. • Processing our emotional reactions to Israel's "preemptive strike" otherwise know as a declaration of war against Iran • Examining how media messaging manipulates public perception of conflict to vilify people in Gaza and justify colonialism • Discussing intergenerational tra...

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S3 E:17 Finding Your Power When Everything Feels Out...

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2025/05/26

Send us a text Matt and Erika explore how people in compassion-based professions navigate feelings of helplessness when confronted with systemic barriers and limitations beyond their control. • The challenges of working in compassion-based professions (healthcare, teaching, social work, veterinary medicine) within systems that often prioritize profit over people • America's dysfunctional relationship with grief and death as a "death-defying society" • The importance of radical acceptance – a...

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59:28

S 3 E:16 Papers Please: Navigating America's Broken...

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2025/05/19

Send us a text Immigration rights are under severe threat as communities across America face increasing persecution and detention without due process, with Kim DeLeon sharing her family's journey through the US immigration system and the fears they still face despite her husband's citizenship. We discuss how the immigration process is far more complex, expensive, and uncertain than most people realize, with many families spending thousands of dollars and years navigating bureaucratic hurdles....

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S3 E: 15 Field Veterinarians and the Mental Health...

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2025/05/05

Send us a text PS: Congress is trying to pass a bill that would prohibit the boycott of the genocidal state of Israel's products. Please contact your rep to tell them to vote against the bill and stop the madness. H.R.867 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): IGO Anti-Boycott Act | Congress.gov | Library of Congress Field veterinarian Dr. Kathryn Cehrs shares her experience responding to avian influenza outbreaks and the devastating mental health toll of mass animal depopulations. Her ...

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