She said you keep choosing the pain.

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.  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 by Katy Waldman Strangers Among Us by Rachel AvivSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 This episode also includes some clips from Autistic Masking & Unmasking, The 4 Types of Autistic Masking, Twice as Hard: Masking Neurodiversity as Black Women, Discover your neurodivergent masks, and Black and Autistic! The Struggle is Real…  Plus Devon Price recommends Amythest Schaber’s Ask An Autistic 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 for privacy information.

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 Autism Spectrum Disorder - CDC The mother of neurodiversity: how Judy Singer changed the world | Autism | The Guardian 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  Who coined the term ‘neurodiversity?’ It wasn’t Judy Singer, some autistic academics say A correction on the origin of the term ‘neurodiversity’ - Independent Living On the Autism Spectrum (InLiv) On the neurological underpinnings of geekdom - The Atlantic  Politicizing Neurodiversity - by P.E. Moskowitz: Empire of Normality by Robert Chapman  Neurodiversity and the Pathology Paradigm | Psychology Today  Negotiating the Neurodiversity Concept | Psychology Today  NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silber  Neurodiversity Rewires Conventional Thinking About Brains | WIRED Neurodiversity in the Classroom by Thomas Armstrong “The 8 Million Species We Don’t Know” -  New York Times Sunday Review Common Biologically Essentialist Language | by Cat Harsis | Medium  What If Gay-Rights Advocates’ ‘Born This Way’ Argument Is Wrong?  It's time to rethink “born this way,” a phrase that's been key to LGBTQ acceptance | Salon.com  ‘Beyond Race’ Biology Course Busts Myths About Human Diversity | College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences | University of Maryland  Decolonizing= abolishing bioessentialism & the neurodivergent/ neurotypical binary  - Ayesha Khan, Ph.D. Psychiatric diagnoses & bioessentialism will not liberate us - Ayesha Khan, Ph.D.  What Is a Collectivist Culture? Individualism vs. Collectivism  Collective Culture & Mental Wellbeing: What Tanzania Can Teach Us About Mental Health  Science is not objective or apolitical  - by Ayesha Khan, Ph.D.  A Guide to the James Webb Telescope's View of the Universe - New York Times we are all made of starsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 imbalance in brain isn't causing depression - The Economic Times   The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? - New York Review of Books  The Illusions of Psychiatry - The New York Review of Books  Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health by Micha Frazer-Carroll  DSM History - Psychiatry.org  How do new disorders get into the DSM? - Slate  Delusions of Progress: Psychiatry’s Diagnostic Manual - Los Angeles Review of Books “Scientific Nightmare”: The Backstory of the “DSM” - Los Angeles Review of Books  Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker With Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel blew open the memoir as we know it - BBC  Prozac Nation (2001)  Prozac: Revolution in a Capsule - The New York Times How Prozac entered the lexicon - BBC News Renamed Prozac Fuels Women's Health Debate - Washington Post  After the Boom, No Reason to Smile - Barron's  Something Happened to U.S. Drug Costs in the 1990s - The New York Times Conflicts of interest and DSM-5: the media reaction - Speaking of Medicine and Health  Many authors of psychiatry bible have industry ties - New Scientist  Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5-TR: cross sectional analysis - The BMJ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 Illusions of Psychiatry - The New York Review of BooksSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.

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.

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