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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Carly Schwartz: I’ll Try Anything Twice—Misadventures of a Self-Medicated Life (EXPLICIT)
Description: Join Carly Schwartz, former San Francisco Examiner editor in chief and founding editor of HuffPost’s San Francisco bureau, for the launch of her debut memoir, I’ll Try Anything Twice: Misadventures of a Self-Medicated Life.
In conversation with KQED’s Sydney Johnson, Schwartz will discuss how her quest to escape from depression and addiction led her on a dizzying international journey through multiple communities and a maze of mental health treatments, before she found recovery where she least expected it. She will explore the universal topics of mental illness stigmatization, substance use denial, privilege, power, and the press...