Why Do I Feel?

In this final episode of the series, we meet people who consume the worst horrors of the internet so that we don't have to. But at what cost?

Guests include:

Chris Gray, an ex-content moderator who's suing Facebook for the trauma he’s suffered.

Ryan Broderick author of The Garbage Day newsletter about web culture and host of The Content Minds podcast.

Dr Jennifer Beckett lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne specialising in the wellbeing of digital workers.

Written and presented by Nathan Filer @nathanfiler

Produced by Kelly Windsor Burgin. Original music by Harrison Pawsey.

Supported by Arts Council England.

For a transcript of the audio visit this link.

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After losing her job, Leah hatched a violent revenge plot against her ex-colleagues...

Guests include:

Thomas Dixon, Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London, where he researches and teaches the history of emotions. @ProfThomasDixon

Victoria Gath, a psychotherapist who works with Clean Break, a charity supporting women in the criminal justice system. Her practice is influenced by the work of Harriet Lerner.

Special thanks to Clean Break for their support with this episode.

Written and presented by Nathan Filer @nathanfiler

Produced by Kelly Windsor Burgin. Original music by Harrison Pawsey.

Supported by Arts Council England.

For a transcript of the audio follow this link.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When she was 22 years old, Maryann was driving along a rural highway in Ohio. A small boy darted in front of her car. She slammed on her breaks, tried to swerve but was unable to avoid the collision. He died before reaching the hospital. This episode explores the emotion of guilt.

Maryann Jacobi Gray is a social psychologist, Assistant Provost at UCLA and the founder of accidentalimpacts.org, a site supporting people who’ve accidentally killed or injured someone.

Written and presented by Nathan Filer @nathanfiler

Produced by Kelly Windsor Burgin. Original music by Harrison Pawsey.

Supported by Arts Council England.

For a transcript of the audio visit this link.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we explore envy and jealousy. Nathan confesses to his own feelings of professional envy towards other authors and gets some live therapy to help him. We also meet Yvonne who desperately wanted children. And ‘T’, whose relationship was destroyed by his painful feelings of retroactive jealousy.

Dr Windy Dryden is one of the leading practitioners and trainers in the UK in the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) tradition of psychotherapy. He specialises in single-session therapy (the sort that Nathan receives, reluctantly, in this episode).@DrydenWindy.

More on single-session therapy here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGGZqfchkCw

Gateway Women is a global friendship and support network for childless women. https://gateway-women.com/

Written and presented by Nathan Filer @nathanfiler

Produced by Kelly Windsor Burgin. Original music by Harrison Pawsey.

Supported by Arts Council England.

For a transcript of the audio visit this link.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to WHY DO I FEEL? a podcast that takes us on an emotional journey. We share stories to help make sense of our experiences and to know that we are not alone. In this series, real people talk about emotional turning points in their lives. How they felt in these moments, and how their lives were changed. We’ll look at each story through the lens of a single emotion, or at least that’s where we’ll start... but feelings aren’t that simple.

Dougie was betrayed and sought revenge. Cathrine was hurt and unable to talk to the person who hurt her. They both found themselves revelling in the same feeling, but at what cost?

To understand why we feel, we need to understand what a feeling is. That’s where our experts come in. In this episode, we hear from:

Tiffany Watt Smith is the author of The Book of Human Emotions, which tells the stories of 156 feelings from around the world. She is a Reader in Cultural History at Queen Mary University of London. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, the BBC News Magazine and The New Scientist. In 2014, she was named a BBC New Generation Thinker and in 2019 she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme prize. She is the Director of the Centre for the History of the Emotions. @drtiffwattsmith

Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is among the top one per cent most cited scientists in the world for her revolutionary research in psychology and neuroscience. She is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. She is also Chief Science Officer for the Centre for Law, Brain & Behavior at Harvard University. @LFeldmanBarrett

Written and presented by Nathan Filer. @nathanfiler

Produced by Kelly Windsor Burgin. Original music by Harrison Pawsey.

Supported by Arts Council England.

For a transcript of this episode visit this link.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.