Basket Case
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.Social links:
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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. This episode was produced by Maryam Gunja and Phoebe Unter. Studying Hunger Journals by Bernadette Mayer Hungry Bengal: War, Famine a…
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You do not have to be good
Transcript 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 strategi…
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I was giving spectrum!
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 Aut…
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Prescription drug revolution
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 Bl…
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I just felt like this terrible thing...
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 …
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She said you keep choosing the pain.
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 l…
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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 WITH: + B. Stepp: www.haveheartsomatics.com + Yumi Sakugawa: @yumisakugawa AND INFORMED BY: …
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Introducing: Basket Case
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