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.

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 light - Seattle Times   What's A Mental Disorder? Even Experts Can't Agree - NPR    DSM-5-TR turns normal grief into a mental disorder | Miss Foundation   A History of Prolonged Grief Disorder's Inclusion in the DSM — And What Is Missing From It - Psychiatry At the Margins   Why was prolonged grief disorder added to the DSM? - American Psychiatric Association   How Long Should It Take to Grieve? Psychiatry Has Come Up With an Answer. - The New York Times    Prolonged Grief Is Now Labelled a Disorder. Not All Psychiatrists Agree. - VICE    Impairing Social Connectedness: The Dangers of Treating Grief With Naltrexone - Kara Thieleman, Joanne Cacciatore, Shanéa Thoma    What is good grief support? Exploring the actors and actions in social support after traumatic grief | Miss Foundation     It’s Mourning in America | The New Yorker How People Of Color Can Experience Grief Differently Than White People | HuffPost Life     Grief, Unmedicated - by P.E. Moskowitz - Mental Hellth  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

09-24
40:14

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:   The dangerous downsides of perfectionism - BBC   “Multidimensional Perfectionism And DSM-5 Personality Traits” by Joachim Stoeber   Contemplating the Infinite with Annie Dillard - Literary Hub   Silent All These Years: On Annie Dillard - The Millions   Annie Dillard on Creativity and What It Takes to Be a Writer - The Marginalian    Generative Somatics   Want to Fix Your Mind? Let Your Body Talk. - The New York Times   What Your Body Has to Do With Social Change - YES! Magazine    Brené Brown: Can We Gain Strength From Shame? - NPR    The Hidden Stress of Growing Up a Child of Immigrants - VICE    How to Be Less Self-Critical When Perfectionism Is a Trap - The New York Times   I Finally Accepted Nothing Can Be Perfect - VICE    Yumi Sakugawa on shame, hiding, paralysis, and making bad art.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

09-24
45:16

Introducing: Basket Case

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