Basket Case

About Basket Case

Where do you go when your own thoughts are unsafe? Basket Case, a series hosted by Nicole Kelly (NK), decodes the kaleidoscope of mental health and uncovers how our brain contorts our reality through original reporting, tender conversations, and deeply personal explorations.

Publisher

iHeartPodcasts

Category

health & fitness · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Sept 2024

Latest episode

25 Mar 2025

Latest episodes

16 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   25 Mar 2025

   Epilogue

   For this bonus episode, NK and Imani talk about navigating conflict, accountability, and grace for ourselves and the people we’re in community with. Transcript (https://www.wearemolten.com/s/Ep-15-Transcript_-Conflict.pdf) See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

2. 

   11 Mar 2025

   For me, this is medicine

   Western science gives us names for the things that we know – the things that we can see and feel and touch. But it’s always been skeptical of the things we can’t measure. This skepticism dates back to Europeans’ first contact with indigenous cultures in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, and the unfamiliar medicine that they found there. Today in the west, those healing modalities are often still characterized as “alternative.” Mexico City-based integrative psychiatrist Dr. Carmen Amezcua is passionate about psychedelic plant medicine – treatments that are still stigmatized and misunderstood, even though they’ve been shown to be effective at treating depression, anxiety, and PTSD. But she prefers to describe her treatments as complementary, not “alternative.” In this episode, somatics coach Holiday Simmons says somatics can help us reconnect to our intuition – the knowledge of our ancestors. Dr. Carmen Amezcua says western psychiatry doesn’t get to the root of our issues. And both say that ceremony is how we connect with ourselves, with nature, with our pasts, and with each other. Transcript (https://www.wearemolten.com/s/Transcript-Ep-14_-For-me-this-is-medicine-rndy.pdf) LINKS Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (https://milkweed.org/author/robin-wall-kimmerer) Southern Soul Wellness: https://southernsoulwellness.com/ (https://southernsoulwellness.com/) Dr. Carmen Amezcua: https://carmenamezcua.com/ (https://carmenamezcua.com/) This Is What Ayahuasca Does To Your Brain (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2YyoZxza7A&ab_channel=Animalogic) Psychedelics, the Law and Politics - UC Berkeley BCSP (https://psychedelics.berkeley.edu/law/) Psychedelics and Neural Plasticity: Therapeutic Implications - PMC (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9665925/#:~:text=In%20recent%20years%2C%20accumulating%20evidence,et%20al.%2C%202021)) ‘Authentic’ ayahuasca rituals sought by tourists often ignore Indigenous practices and spiritual grounding (https://theconversation.com/authentic-ayahuasca-rituals-sought-by-tourists-often-ignore-indigenous-practices-and-spiritual-grounding-231907) Magic Mushrooms Are Most-Used Psychedelic Drug; As States Change Laws, Federal Policymakers Face Urgent Questions | RAND (https://www.rand.org/news/press/2024/06/27.html#:~:text=Based%20on%20a%20new%20national,adults%20used%20psilocybin%20in%202023) See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

3. 

   25 Feb 2025

   What some call rock bottom he calls a doorway

   Even though NK doesn’t live with the voice of constant criticism anymore, there’s still a lingering feeling that stands between her and her authentic self…or selves. In this episode she talks to social anxiety expert Dr. Aziz Gazipura about disrupting that pattern of social anxiety and learning to do something else. Dr. Aziz Gazipura is the author of the books The Solution To Social Anxiety and Not Nice, and the founder of the Center For Social Confidence. Transcript (https://www.wearemolten.com/s/Transcript-Ep-13_-Social-Anxiety.pdf) See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

4. 

   11 Feb 2025

   All the women in me are tired

   NK attends a workshop on divesting from people pleasing & begins to unravel a lifetime of grief and rage. Transcript (https://www.wearemolten.com/s/Ep12-All-the-Women-in-Me-are-Tired_Transcript.pdf) See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

5. 

   28 Jan 2025

   What world are we trying to build?!?

   When Sal moved from California to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, they didn't know anyone. The solitude didn’t bother them…at first. But after their attempts at making new friends left them feeling confused, then rejected, then frustrated, their solitude turned into loneliness. In this episode, Dr. Ellen Lee explains how loneliness is a social condition. Dr. Marisa G. Franco talks about the science of making friends (and the romance of queer friendship), and Jasmine Ostendorf-Rodriguez shows us what we can learn from fungi about building community in times of crisis. Transcript (https://www.wearemolten.com/s/Ep-11-Transcript_-Loneliness.pdf) Links: The Professional-Managerial Class w/ Catherine Liu | Jacobin Show (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4WV7oswt3M&t=432s&ab_channel=Jacobin) White Supremacy Culture Worksheet (https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/uploads/4/3/5/7/43579015/okun_-_white_sup_culture_2020.pdf) from White Supremacy Culture (https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/) Platonic: How The Science of Attachment Can Help You Make – and Keep – Friends by Dr. Marisa G. Franco Let’s Become Fungal! by Jasmine Ostendorf-Rodriguez See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

6. 

   14 Jan 2025

   What if the cure is touching grass

   Does being *too online* make it increasingly hard to hang on to an inherent sense of identity? Between the algorithm, the content creators, and the very online therapists, maybe it makes sense that more and more people are self diagnosing from online content – and are telling their IRL therapists about it. But what if the sense of belonging we get from claiming a diagnosis is just a stand in for what’s actually needed? With Nadira Goff (Slate), P.E. Moscowitz (MentalHellth), and Marcus Brittain Fleming (LCSW, Bandwidth Care). Transcript (https://www.wearemolten.com/s/Ep-10-Mental-Health-Tok_Transcript.pdf) Links: On TikTok, mental health creators are confused for therapists. That's a serious problem. (2021) (https://mashable.com/article/tiktok-mental-health-therapist-psychology?test_uuid=01iI2GpryXngy77uIpA3Y4B&test_variant=a) How mental health became a social media minefield (https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2021/9/30/22696338/pathologizing-adhd-autism-anxiety-internet-tiktok-twitter) The BuzzFeedification of Mental Health | Mental Hellth (https://mentalhellth.xyz/p/the-buzzfeed-ification-of-mental) (Feb 2021) From pee tapes to Pulitzers: The rise and fall of Buzzfeed News | The Independent (https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/buzzfeed-closing-news-jonah-peretti-ben-smith-b2323888.html) Why "TikTok Diagnoses" Are on the Rise | Psychology Today (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/for-the-culture/202108/why-tiktok-diagnoses-are-on-the-rise) Women Are Discovering They May Have ADHD Or Be On The Autism Spectrum From Trending TikTok Videos (https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a40787937/adhd-autism-in-women-tiktok-self-diagnosis-neurodivergence/) The fight over what’s real (and what’s not) on dissociative identity disorder TikTok - The Verge (https://www.theverge.com/23823497/tiktok-dissociative-identity-disorder-doctors-backlash-diagnosis) https://neuroqueer.com/throw-away-the-masters-tools/ Mad World: Politics of Mental Health by Micha Frazer-Carroll Girls Self-Diagnosing on TikTok Aren't Why Ableism Happens - Dr. Devon Price (https://drdevonprice.substack.com/p/girls-self-diagnosing-on-tiktok-arent?) Changing the Framework: Disability Justice | Leaving Evidence (https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/changing-the-framework-disability-justice/) See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

7. 

   31 Dec 2024

   Embodied

   Instead of feeling happy when she learns that her cancer therapy is working, Jasmin is confronted with grief. In an effort to understand her own situation, she tries to find people who can relate. And in a collaborative art piece, Jazmine (JT) Green gives us a snapshot of what it feels like to finally learn to inhabit a body that could feel like home. “Embodied” is episode three of Little Devils – a show about the flaws that shape us. Little Devils is a TRZ Media Original and an independent production hosted by Jasmin Bauomy. See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

8. 

   17 Dec 2024

   Not the person anyone wants to be

   In the stories about Borderline Personality Disorder that Mala was familiar with, a borderline woman was always toxic – intense, erratic, angry, manipulative. And she was almost always the villain in someone else’s story. But no one ever talked about the *source* of the intense emotion – what was at the heart of it. Transcript (https://www.wearemolten.com/s/Ep-8-BPD_Transcript.pdf) More to read about borderline: I'm A Black Woman with Borderline Personality Disorder | Business Insider (https://www.businessinsider.com/borderline-personality-disorder-black-woman-misdiagnosed-2022-5?r=MX&IR=T) Why I'm Distancing Myself From My Borderline Personality Disorder Diagnosis (https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/borderline-personality-disorder-diagnosis) Diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder Is Often Flawed | Scientific American (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-truth-about-borderline/) (Re)Valuing Borderline Personality Disorder as (Counter) Knowledge | Word & Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics (https://www.academia.edu/107173587/Borderline_Knowing_Re_Valuing_Borderline_Personality_Disorder_as_Counter_Knowledge) Transcendent Luminescence, Ravaging Flames: On Alexander Kriss’s “Borderline” | Los Angeles Review of Books (https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/transcendent-luminescence-ravaging-flames-on-alexander-krisss-borderline/) How Infinite Jest tethered me to life when I almost let it go | Aeon Essays (https://aeon.co/essays/how-infinite-jest-tethered-me-to-life-when-i-almost-let-it-go) Borderline Personality and Self-Understanding of Psychopathology | Psychiatry At the Margins (https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/borderline-personality-and-self-understanding?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web) Either all psychopathology is personality psychopathology or there is no such thing | Psychiatry at the Margins (https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/either-all-psychopathology-is-personality) Transgender and Gender Diverse Patients Are Diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder More Frequently Than Cisgender Patients Regardless of Personality Pathology | Transgender Health (https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/trgh.2023.0062) I Have Forgiven Myself for My Pre-Diagnosis Recklessness | by Zuva Seven | An Injustice! (https://aninjusticemag.com/i-have-forgiven-myself-for-my-pre-diagnosis-recklessness-cfd9f43fbde0) Skill Issues | Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Its Discontents (https://www.thedriftmag.com/skill-issues/) See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

9. 

   3 Dec 2024

   It's a very ritualized, precious routine

   For Maryam, anorexia was a way to disappear. But outside the institutions meant to cure eating disorders, she learns to resist the binary of recovery or death. Transcript (https://www.wearemolten.com/s/Ep-7-Anorexia_Transcript.pdf) This episode was produced by Maryam Gunja and Phoebe Unter. And informed by… Studying Hunger Journals by Bernadette Mayer Hungry Bengal: War, Famine and the End of Empire by Janam Mukherjee Saving our own lives: a liberatory practice of harm reduction by Shira Hassan Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body by Susan Bordo We need to reject the false narratives around anorexia (https://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/cover_story/2015/12/we_need_to_reject_the_false_narratives_around_anorexia.html) by Katy Waldman Strangers Among Us by Rachel Aviv See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

10. 

    19 Nov 2024

    You do not have to be good

    Dr. Devon Price talks with NK about 2022’s Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity. Masking is a coping strategy, a way that neurodivergent people (especially autistic people) learn to fit into neurotypical society, with uneven success. But like many coping strategies, masking can do more harm than good in the long run – and the act of unmasking is a small act of resistance against conformity. Transcript (https://www.wearemolten.com/s/BC_E6_Transcript.pdf) This episode also includes some clips from Autistic Masking & Unmasking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxhJDM6Bv1U&ab_channel=PurpleElla), The 4 Types of Autistic Masking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36-K-HW3syc&t=440s&ab_channel=I%27mAutistic%2CNowWhat%3F), Twice as Hard: Masking Neurodiversity as Black Women (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fLqs1po2cA&ab_channel=AllThingsEquitable), Discover your neurodivergent masks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiU1WRPJa-4&ab_channel=TheThoughtSpot), and Black and Autistic! The Struggle is Real… (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV8J4qa10W0&ab_channel=AutisticallyKofi) Plus Devon Price recommends Amythest Schaber’s Ask An Autistic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WexCWZPJE6A&list=PLAoYMFsyj_k1ApNj_QUkNgKC1R5F9bVHs) series, The Secret Life of a Black Aspie: A Memoir by Anand Prahlad, and Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale. See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

11. 

    5 Nov 2024

    I was giving spectrum!

    Bertranna’s autism makes her obsessed with finding the Truth about neurodiversity. With Ayesha Khan, PhD (https://www.ayesha-khan.com/) and The People’s Oracle (https://thepeoplesoracle.com/). Transcript (https://www.wearemolten.com/s/BC_E5_Transcript-2.pdf) AND INFORMED BY: Unmasking Autism by Devon Price African-Americans With Autism Face Additional Challenges - NPR (https://www.npr.org/2016/02/21/467582515/african-americans-with-autism-face-additional-challenges) The Persistent Invisibility of Black Autism - Undark.org (https://undark.org/2016/05/17/invisibility-black-autism/) The Biology Behind Autism Spectrum Disorder - Yale Medicine (https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/yale-researcher-seeks-to-understand-the-biology-behind-autism-spectrum-disorder/) Data and Statistics on Autism Spectrum Disorder - CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/data.html) The mother of neurodiversity: how Judy Singer changed the world | Autism | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/05/the-mother-of-neurodiversity-how-judy-singer-changed-the-world) Singer’s thesis was included in a British Open University anthology titled Disability Discourse, and is now available in an ebook called Neurodiversity: The Birth of an Idea (https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=neurodiversity+the+birth+of+an+idea&adgrpid=73960836644&hvadid=357904074679&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9045997&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=2291358756036409958&hvtargid=kwd-802601377862&hydadcr=28212_1821154&tag=googhydr-21&ref=pd_sl_7vt5fqkawe_e) Who coined the term ‘neurodiversity?’ It wasn’t Judy Singer, some autistic academics say (https://19thnews.org/2024/04/neurodiversity-term-judy-singer-autistic-advocates/) A correction on the origin of the term ‘neurodiversity’ - Independent Living On the Autism Spectrum (InLiv) (https://www.inlv.org/2023/07/13/neurodiversity-origin.html) On the neurological underpinnings of geekdom - The Atlantic (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1998/09/neurodiversity/305909/) Politicizing Neurodiversity - by P.E. Moskowitz (https://mentalhellth.xyz/p/politicizing-neurodiversity): Empire of Normality by Robert Chapman Neurodiversity and the Pathology Paradigm | Psychology Today (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/neurodiverse-age/202108/neurodiversity-and-the-pathology-paradigm) Negotiating the Neurodiversity Concept | Psychology Today (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/neurodiverse-age/202108/negotiating-the-neurodiversity-concept) NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silber Neurodiversity Rewires Conventional Thinking About Brains | WIRED (https://www.wired.com/2013/04/neurodiversity/) Neurodiversity in the Classroom by Thomas Armstrong “The 8 Million Species We Don’t Know” -  New York Times Sunday Review (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/opinion/sunday/species-conservation-extinction.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fsunday&action=click&contentCollection=sunday&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront) Common Biologically Essentialist Language | by Cat Harsis | Medium (https://purrcatharsis.medium.com/common-bio-essentialist-language-3db6a894bb74) What If Gay-Rights Advocates’ ‘Born This Way’ Argument Is Wrong? (https://www.thecut.com/2014/06/what-if-born-this-way-is-wrong.html) It's time to rethink “born this way,” a phrase that's been key to LGBTQ acceptance | Salon.com (https://www.salon.com/2022/06/17/its-time-to-rethink-born-this-way-a-phrase-thats-been-key-to-lgbtq-acceptance/) ‘Beyond Race’ Biology Course Busts Myths About Human Diversity | College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences | University of Maryland (https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/news/beyond-race-biology-course-busts-myths-about-human-diversity) Decolonizing= abolishing bioessentialism & the neurodivergent/ neurotypical binary (https://wokescientist.substack.com/p/decolonizing-abolishing-bioessentialism)  - Ayesha Khan, Ph.D. Psychiatric diagnoses & bioessentialism will not liberate us (https://wokescientist.substack.com/p/psychiatric-diagnoses-and-bioessentialism) - Ayesha Khan, Ph.D. What Is a Collectivist Culture? Individualism vs. Collectivism (https://www.verywellmind.com/what-are-collectivistic-cultures-2794962) Collective Culture & Mental Wellbeing: What Tanzania Can Teach Us About Mental Health (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/collective-culture-mental-wellbeing-what-tanzania-can-mohammed-dewji/) Science is not objective or apolitical (https://wokescientist.substack.com/p/science-is-not-objective-or-apolitical?utm_source=publication-search)  - by Ayesha Khan, Ph.D. A Guide to the James Webb Telescope's View of the Universe - New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/05/magazine/james-webb-space-telescope.html) we are all made of stars (https://www.space.com/we-are-made-of-star-stuff-meaning-truth) See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

12. 

    22 Oct 2024

    Prescription drug revolution

    If depression isn't caused by a chemical imbalance, why does everyone think it is? Transcript (https://www.wearemolten.com/s/BC_E4_Transcript.pdf) WITH: P.E. Moskowitz (https://moskowitz.xyz/) Micha Frazer-Carroll (https://www.michafrazercarroll.com/) AND INFORMED BY: Breaking Off My Chemical Romance - The Nation (https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ssri-antidepressant-side-effects/) Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit - The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/health/antidepressants-withdrawal-prozac-cymbalta.html) Emotional Blunting, No Libido, No Life - by P.E. Moskowitz (https://mentalhellth.xyz/p/like-having-sex-with-someone-elses?utm_source=publication-search) Keep the antidepressants away. New study says chemical imbalance in brain isn't causing depression - The Economic Times (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/keep-the-antidepressants-away-new-study-says-chemical-imbalance-in-brain-isnt-causing-depression/articleshow/93029558.cms?from=mdr) The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? - New York Review of Books (https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/06/23/epidemic-mental-illness-why) The Illusions of Psychiatry - The New York Review of Books (https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/07/14/illusions-of-psychiatry/?pagination=false) Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745346717/mad-world/) by Micha Frazer-Carroll DSM History - Psychiatry.org (https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm/about-dsm/history-of-the-dsm#:~:text=In%202007%2C%20APA%20formed%20the,5%20was%20published%20in%202013) How do new disorders get into the DSM? - Slate (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2006/05/how-do-new-disorders-get-into-the-dsm.html) Delusions of Progress: Psychiatry’s Diagnostic Manual - Los Angeles Review of Books (https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/delusions-of-progress-psychiatrys-diagnostic-manual/) “Scientific Nightmare”: The Backstory of the “DSM” - Los Angeles Review of Books (https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/scientific-nightmare-the-backstory-of-the-dsm/) Anatomy of an Epidemic (https://robertwhitakerbooks.com/anatomy-of-an-epidemic/) by Robert Whitaker With Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel blew open the memoir as we know it - BBC (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/08/with-prozac-nation-elizabeth-wurtzel-blew-open-the-memoir-as-we-know-it) Prozac Nation (2001)  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prozac_Nation_(film)) Prozac: Revolution in a Capsule - The New York Times (https://youtu.be/qgCFQ5no2jg?si=P1tNlj19EN2GJb0-) How Prozac entered the lexicon - BBC News (https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22040733) Renamed Prozac Fuels Women's Health Debate - Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/04/29/renamed-prozac-fuels-womens-health-debate/b05311b4-514a-4e65-aaa5-434cb2934271/) After the Boom, No Reason to Smile - Barron's (https://www.barrons.com/amp/articles/SB1021686885462923040) Something Happened to U.S. Drug Costs in the 1990s - The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/upshot/why-prescription-drug-spending-higher-in-the-us.html) Conflicts of interest and DSM-5: the media reaction - Speaking of Medicine and Health (https://speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2012/03/26/conflicts-of-interest-and-dsm-5-the-media-reaction/) Many authors of psychiatry bible have industry ties - New Scientist (https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21580-many-authors-of-psychiatry-bible-have-industry-ties/) Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5-TR: cross sectional analysis - The BMJ (https://www.bmj.com/content/384/bmj-2023-076902) See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

13. 

    8 Oct 2024

    I just felt like this terrible thing...

    Samara puts her trust in psychiatry to fix her. Transcript (https://www.wearemolten.com/s/BC_E3_Transcript.pdf) WITH: + PUPPYBREATH (https://soundcloud.com/puppybreathmusic?ref=clipboard&p=a&c=1&si=8d7d95c8f8ed47bf99c98f63329bcd71&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing) AND INFORMED BY: The Ritalin Explosion - PBS FRONTLINE (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/medicating/experts/explosion.html) Anatomy of an Epidemic (https://robertwhitakerbooks.com/anatomy-of-an-epidemic/) by Robert Whitaker Strangers To Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/440183/strangers-to-ourselves-by-aviv-rachel/9781529111651) by Rachel Aviv Antidepressants rapidly alter brain architecture, study finds - Los Angeles Times (https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-antidepressants-brain-structure-20140918-story.html) Breaking Off My Chemical Romance - The Nation (https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ssri-antidepressant-side-effects/) The Illusions of Psychiatry - The New York Review of Books (https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/07/14/illusions-of-psychiatry/?pagination=false) See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

14. 

    24 Sept 2024

    I felt too seen. Um, dragged.

    Rachel tells NK about the pain of her perfectionism, then NK talks to somatics practitioner B. Stepp and artist Yumi Sakugawa about rewriting internal narratives of shame and punishment. Transcript (https://eagle-gold-7wkz.squarespace.com/s/BC_E1_Transcript.pdf) WITH: + B. Stepp: www.haveheartsomatics.com (https://www.haveheartsomatics.com/) + Yumi Sakugawa: @yumisakugawa (https://www.instagram.com/yumisakugawa/) AND INFORMED BY: The dangerous downsides of perfectionism - BBC (https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180219-toxic-perfectionism-is-on-the-rise) “Multidimensional Perfectionism And DSM-5 Personality Traits” by Joachim Stoeber (https://kar.kent.ac.uk/38357/1/Stoeber%20%28in%20press%2C%202014%29%20PAID.pdf) Contemplating the Infinite with Annie Dillard - Literary Hub (https://lithub.com/contemplating-the-infinite-with-annie-dillard/#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20reasons%20Dillard,she%20has%20never%20stopped%20reading) Silent All These Years: On Annie Dillard - The Millions (https://themillions.com/2021/07/silent-all-these-years-on-annie-dillard.html) Annie Dillard on Creativity and What It Takes to Be a Writer - The Marginalian (https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/03/28/annie-dillard-writing-the-abundance/) Generative Somatics (https://generativesomatics.org/) Want to Fix Your Mind? Let Your Body Talk. - The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/18/magazine/somatic-therapy.html) What Your Body Has to Do With Social Change - YES! Magazine (https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2019/05/14/adrienne-maree-brown-social-change-body-pleasure-activism) Brené Brown: Can We Gain Strength From Shame? - NPR (https://www.npr.org/transcripts/174033560) The Hidden Stress of Growing Up a Child of Immigrants - VICE (https://www.vice.com/en/article/43kgzn/the-hidden-stress-of-growing-up-a-child-of-immigrants-v26n3) How to Be Less Self-Critical When Perfectionism Is a Trap - The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/well/mind/perfectionism-social-comparison.html) I Finally Accepted Nothing Can Be Perfect - VICE (https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-i-overcame-perfectionism/) Yumi Sakugawa on shame, hiding, paralysis (https://www.instagram.com/p/C7zwdKtSBFg/?igsh=enVjbjhkaGhyZXQ=), and making bad art (https://www.instagram.com/p/C4taAjkPPcT/?img_index=1). See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

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    24 Sept 2024

    She said you keep choosing the pain.

    After Tina’s dad died, she was devastated. But was her grief “disordered”? Transcript (https://eagle-gold-7wkz.squarespace.com/s/BC_E2_Transcript.pdf) WITH: + Lashanna Williams, A Sacred Passing (http://asacredpassing.org/) + Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, PhD (https://www.centerforlossandtrauma.com/) AND INFORMED BY: Dying Without Regrets According to a Death Doula - VICE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8uvviD8g40&ab_channel=VICE) Seattle-area grief groups bring mourning into the light - Seattle Times (https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/the-dawn-of-a-new-mourning-bringing-grief-out-of-the-dark-and-into-the-light/) What's A Mental Disorder? Even Experts Can't Agree - NPR (https://www.npr.org/2010/12/29/132407384/whats-a-mental-disorder-even-experts-cant-agree) DSM-5-TR turns normal grief into a mental disorder | Miss Foundation (https://www.missfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/DSM-5-TR-turns-normal-grief-into-a-mental-disorder-The-Lancet-Psychiatry.pdf) A History of Prolonged Grief Disorder's Inclusion in the DSM — And What Is Missing From It - Psychiatry At the Margins (https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/a-history-of-prolonged-grief-disorders) Why was prolonged grief disorder added to the DSM? - American Psychiatric Association (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orPB4EvjwQs) How Long Should It Take to Grieve? Psychiatry Has Come Up With an Answer. - The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/health/prolonged-grief-disorder.html) Prolonged Grief Is Now Labelled a Disorder. Not All Psychiatrists Agree. - VICE (https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxd97m/prolonged-grief-disorder-psychiatry-mental-health) Impairing Social Connectedness: The Dangers of Treating Grief With Naltrexone - Kara Thieleman, Joanne Cacciatore, Shanéa Thoma (https://www.missfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Impairing-Social-Connectedness-The-Dangers-of-Treating-Grief-With-Naltrexone-Kara-Thieleman-Joanne-Cacciatore-Shanea-Thomas-2022.pdf) What is good grief support? Exploring the actors and actions in social support after traumatic grief | Miss Foundation (https://www.missfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/What-is-good-grief-support_-Exploring-the-actors-and-actions-in-social-support-after-traumatic-grief-PLOS-ONE.pdf) It’s Mourning in America | The New Yorker (https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/its-mourning-in-america) How People Of Color Can Experience Grief Differently Than White People | HuffPost Life (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/people-of-color-grief_l_6030100ec5b6cc8bbf3b8a34) Grief, Unmedicated - by P.E. Moskowitz - Mental Hellth (https://mentalhellth.xyz/p/grief-unmedicated) See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

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    17 Sept 2024

    Introducing: Basket Case

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419,108,275

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4.7 / 5

16 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 71 / 100

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85

Social presence

0

YouTube

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Engagement

51

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