Hard truth: the very act of trying to treat anxiety can be one of the most anxiety-inducing of all. In this episode, Julia tells us about her experience with a particularly insensitive pharmacist and how assumptions about mental illness makes living with them even harder. Then we switch to the other side of the counter with a pharmacist taking a big picture approach to medication.

Note: This episode contains some swearing and descriptions of depression.

Many thanks to my guests Julia and Joshua Rimany.

Read Julia’s essay, “Unbecoming,” on the Manifest Station: https://www.themanifeststation.net/tag/julia-k-agresto/

Find out more about the Dilworth Drug and Wellness center here: https://www.dilworthdrug.com/staff.html

Music: Sam Hughes

Logo: Elizabeth Guerra