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Popp Talk with Mary Jane Popp Mental Health's Silent Pandemic, Souls Crossing Over with Philip DeClercq, Caroline Cory, and Father Nathan Castle Mary Jane Popp talks with Philip DeClercq and Caroline Cory about their book The Silent Pandemic and the hidden mental health crisis facing teenagers, then welcomes Father Nathan Castle, author of Afterlife Interrupted, to describe twenty-five years spent helping people who died suddenly cross over to the other side. A Tease For Two Powerful Conversations Mary Jane Popp opens Popp Talk promising an extraordinary hour, teasing her second guest first: Father Nathan Castle, a Dominican priest who has spent twenty-five years helping about five hundred people cross over to the other side, especially those whose traumatic deaths, from accidents to suicides, leave them stuck and unable to move on. She jokes that her first question for him will be blunt: are the people he talks to actually dead, or still alive? Before that conversation, Popp promises to tackle what she calls a silent pandemic, a mental health crisis she says the country has never fully reckoned with, even after emerging from the other pandemic everyone already knows about. She teases that listeners need this information, then runs through a block of advertisements for hearing aids and walk-in bathtubs, plus a Sinatra tune, before returning to introduce her first guests of the hour. Introducing The Silent Pandemic Authors Mary Jane Popp introduces Caroline Cory, an award-winning filmmaker, author, and consciousness researcher, and Philip DeClercq, who comes from Ireland and blends religion, science, and psychology, as co-authors of The Silent Pandemic. Popp asks why mental health, long present but rarely discussed, has become such an open topic now. Cory points to a stubborn taboo, especially among boys taught not to admit depression or anxiety, and argues the digital age has made things worse, with teenage suicide rates climbing and antidepressant use becoming almost universal. Popp pushes back, wondering aloud whether society has simply gotten softer, recalling pioneers who crossed the prairie by wagon, buried children along the way, and kept going. DeClercq answers that those pioneers survived together, while today's isolated households replace real connection with social media, an illusion Cory says only deepens a teenager's sense that everyone else's life looks amazing while their own feels unbearable. Social Media, Drugs, And Instant Gratification The conversation turns to how media and medication shape young minds. Cory describes a culture of instant gratification in which children are quickly prescribed pharmaceuticals for ADHD or anxious nerves, normalizing antidepressant use by age fourteen or fifteen. DeClercq, whose own daughter is fifteen, says the shows and content teenagers consume glorify perfect bodies and perfect looks, so any child with acne, extra weight, or a slower pace becomes a target for trolling at school, in the play yard, and in stores. Popp, who says she was bullied for being chubby decades ago, notes she at least never faced social media piling on afterward. Cory agrees platforms exacerbate everything, pushing kids toward cosmetic fixes and plastic surgery as young as twelve, and DeClercq adds that teenagers now discuss anxiety, depression, and suicide daily, almost as routine small talk, because they only have peers their own age to process it with, rather than adults who might offer real perspective. Suicide, Purpose, And Three Age Ranges Popp raises the hardest subject, suicide, admitting she once privately thought of it as cowardly before learning better. Cory, who works with mothers who lost children to suicide, describes the guilt those parents carry as some of the most excruciating pain imaginable, and explains that the human spirit has no natural self-destructive drive, so something interferes with that survival instinct, whether trauma, emotional wounds, or forces she calls external energies. She notes schools teach sex education but never address who a child is as a human being, leaving teenagers unequipped when a classmate dies. Popp recalls DeClercq's story of his fourteen-year-old daughter's friend group discussing anxiety and suicide as daily routine. Cory explains the book, The Silent Pandemic, ultimately grew to address three distinct age ranges, since teenagers, adults, and older adults each face different struggles and need different solutions. She directs listeners to thesilentpandemic.com, where preorders bring an autographed copy ahead of the May 27th launch, and Popp promises to have both authors back. Father Nathan Castle On Stuck Souls After a musical break, Popp introduces Father Nathan Castle, a Dominican priest who for twenty-five years has helped more than five hundred people cross over, work he describes in his three-book series Afterlife Interrupted. He explains that most of the souls he encounters died suddenly and violently, in car crashes ...
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