"the analogy that i like:
you're like a ship 🚢 out on the ocean 🌊 & your anxiety is your crewmates that are like, hey, iceberg ahead or whatever, trying to give you information.
& if you choose to ignore your crewmates, they're gonna stop following orders...& they're gonna get disorderly."
& here's a link to the full episode
new episode of brain fruit 🧠🍎 now available for streaming, my verdurous ones 💚
#mentalhealth #podcast
it takes immense courage to do this! i've disclosed in the workplace before & i experienced a lot of turmoil over that decision. from one person living with bp to another, you have my full & unadulterated support 💚
& here's the excerpt of wang's book on the paris review's blog that originally introduced me to her & her incredible work
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/01...
ever since i read her excellent book, the collected schizophrenias, i've looked up to esme weijun wang as an amazing #mentalhealth role model. here she is via bbc ideas talking about her diagnosis & how to break the stigma
youtu.be/vYrkcZTFllk?...
delightfully unexpected find of the day. thank you @darkentries.bsky.social! satisfying all the broody, spookily dubby, hypnotically rhythmic cravings i wasn't even aware i had
#musicsky #postpunk #experimental #industrial
eric-random.bandcamp.com/album/a-boy-...
wonderful, happy listening! 💚💚🎧🧠🍎💚💚
hi @melibee44.bsky.social! thanks so much for asking 💚 brain fruit's currently streaming on youtube & soundcloud:
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
on.soundcloud.com/6APEBaykRaad...
working to set myself up with proper podcast distribution very soon!
the image is a green text card with the following text printed on it: ever since my diagnosis, i've sought representations of mentally ill people out there in the world. i felt this intense need to connect with authentic versions of folks living with mood disorders and other issues as a way to ratify my own identity.
following this & stories like it with outrage. we in the mental health community must stand in solidarity & demand the services we need & deserve
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
when i was first diagnosed #bipolar i scrambled for resources, experiences, accounts - anything that would make the diagnosis explicable & understandable to me. kay redfield jamison's work, especially her book an unquiet mind, was an absolute godsend
#mentalhealth
youtu.be/J3yvLRQWWuc?...
who are your mental health role models?
#mentalhealth #podcast
perhaps it's my early morning stumbling-into-consciousness receptivity, or the breathy vocals or the reedy clarinet washes, but this is giving me abstracted, space-expanded movietone vibes.
simply lovely.
#ambient #musicsky
perilazone.bandcamp.com/album/jazz-p...
listen up, my verdurous ones:
the new episode of my #mentalhealth #podcast is out today!
it explores the topic of finding mental health role models out there in the world.
it's bipolar awareness month, so check out this offering from a bonafide bipolar human!
youtu.be/nOL_MpZ4j4o?...
sometimes i select a record to soundtrack my morning & it syncs so cinematically with my waking consciousness that even tho i am stationary & still i feel utterly transported, delightfully actively-inactive, receptive like an antenna
#ambient #musicsky
ullastraus.bandcamp.com/album/hometo...
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
what fascinates me about meditation is what also draws me to ambient. each draws awareness to the elasticity of time, its contractions & dilations. time, like water, has no shape. it takes the form of the vessel you place it in
#ambient #musicsky #meditation
asatone.bandcamp.com/album/ariel-...
starting work on a zine project about my bipolar diagnosis experience. i want to find ways to normalize, demystify & de-mythologize the diagnosis narrative. it's kinda like a coming out story, which i guess could dovetail with how i'm starting to truly embrace my overall queerness 💚💚🧠💚💚
this classic no-wave groover from south bronx legends esg more or less sums up my feelings about the current "administration."
what songs in your rotation best encapsulate how you feel?
share in the comments plz!
#esg #musicsky
youtu.be/TfUvZLxnEvI?...
updated brain fruit podcast cover art from the incomparable jason combs.
wow, do these colors really pop & the psychedelic swirls make me swoon!
had an old-fashioned case of the fidgets during this morning's meditation session.
luckily, DOVS's latest drumless offering is here to help settle my monkey mind.
#ambient #musicsky #meditation
balmat.bandcamp.com/album/psychi...
currently being transported by yazz ahmed's entrancing, global fusion trumpeting while shopping for plane tix for an upcoming cross-country trip. def will be adding this absolute groovefest to future travel playlists
#jazz #fusion #musicsky
yazzahmed.bandcamp.com/album/a-para...
fellow bipolar humans, lend me your eyes & ears!
are you interested in conversing about world bipolar awareness day/month?
all perspectives welcome!
worried about privacy? you can speak anonymously or don a nom de plume.
you know you want to!
#bipolar #mentalhealth #podcast
little lite train reading 💚💚🎧🎶🎤💚💚
you don't need fancy gear. you don't need technical expertise. when i started producing i didn't have mics, cool analog synths & drum machines or even a keyboard. i used free instrument vsts & recording software. don't fetishize the tools. focus on the inward need to create & just get started.
