Basket Case

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   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 modali...

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...

NK attends a workshop on divesting from people pleasing & begins to unravel a lifetime of grief and rage. Transcript See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 ta...

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 st...

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 Lit...

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 More to read about borderline: I'm A Black Woman with...

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 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 li...

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...

Bertranna’s autism makes her obsessed with finding the Truth about neurodiversity. With Ayesha Khan, PhD and The People’s Oracle . Transcript   AND INFORMED BY: Unmasking Autism by Devon Price  African-Americans With Autism Face Additional Challenges - NPR The Persistent Invisibility of Black Autism - Undark.org   The Biology Behind Autism Spectrum Disorder - Yale Medicine   Data and Statistics on...

If depression isn't caused by a chemical imbalance, why does everyone think it is? Transcript WITH: P.E. Moskowitz   Micha Frazer-Carroll AND INFORMED BY: Breaking Off My Chemical Romance - The Nation   Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit - The New York Times Emotional Blunting, No Libido, No Life - by P.E. Moskowitz Keep the antidepressants away. New study says chemical i...

Samara puts her trust in psychiatry to fix her. Transcript WITH:  + PUPPYBREATH AND INFORMED BY: The Ritalin Explosion - PBS FRONTLINE Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker Strangers To Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv Antidepressants rapidly alter brain architecture, study finds - Los Angeles Times Breaking Off My Chemical Romance - The Nation   The Illus...

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 WITH: + B. Stepp: www.haveheartsomatics.com   + Yumi Sakugawa: @yumisakugawa   AND INFORMED BY:   The dangerous downsides of perfectionism - BBC   “Multidimensional Perfectionism And DSM-5 Personality T...

After Tina’s dad died, she was devastated. But was her grief “disordered”? Transcript WITH:  + Lashanna Williams, A Sacred Passing + Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, PhD     AND INFORMED BY:   Dying Without Regrets According to a Death Doula - VICE   Seattle-area grief groups bring mourning into the light - Seattle Times   What's A Mental Disorder? Even Experts Can't Agree - NPR     DSM-5-TR turns normal gr...

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