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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.
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S1E15 Epilogue
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…
S1E14 For me, this is medicine
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…
S1E13 What some call rock bottom he calls a doorway
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…
S1E12 All the women in me are tired
NK attends a workshop on divesting from people pleasing & begins to unravel a lifetime of grief and rage. TranscriptSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1E11 What world are we trying to build?!?
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…
S1E10 What if the cure is touching grass
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…
S1E9 Embodied
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.…
S1E8 Not the person anyone wants to be
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…
S1E7 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. Transcript This episode was produced by…
S1E6 You do not have to be good
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)…
S1E5 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 …
S1E4 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…
S1E3 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…
S1E2 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…
S1E1 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…
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Basket Case has published 16 episodes since September 2024, covering topics in Documentary, Health & Fitness.
Basket Case is currently dormant with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 34m.
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