the eugenicists *love* cannabis misinformation
almost much as they love anti-trans crap and anti-Mad crap
as i loved revisiting in this #madchat on Reefer Madness (relistening yesterday)... with @amandachicagolewis.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXv4...
As yesterday re-visiting this truly WONDERFUL #madchat season 1 finale reminded me (at the end I spoke about this) ...
I recorded that the day after I met my actual fabulous, brilliant, talented top surgeon. A cis woman who...doesn't suck and who knows trans people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkos...
You might also consider ...
Buying my book! www.akomp.info Or requesting it at your local library (free!)
Listening to my #mentalhealth podcast #madchat (only on YouTube): www.youtube.com/@madchat6135
Hiring me! To consult with your mental health or media org: www.sandyernestallen.com/consulting
again there's only 10 #madchat eps and they're mostly on fun TV shows and such.
i just remain thrilled with what we made. hence i blabbed about it lots today, whoops! sorry not sorry. thinking they were gone (the last long while) had majorly bummed me out ...
www.youtube.com/@madchat6135
highly recommended one for anyone interested in hearing a deep but fucking hilarious conversation about #depression and #anxiety and #mentalhealth #stigma and such
I do think this episode *was* the first time I ever spoke publicly about my own diagnoses at all ... #madchat
for me, hearing my pre-T voice *hurts less* now ... it's also just surreal.
but it's allowed me to actually revisit these episodes today, and feel delight. (it's also weird, for sure.)
#madchat
Okay! this concludes my #madchat re-intro ...
especially if you never listened to the show before
check it out!!!
the episodes are all evergreen and all so good ... I just loved them all.
(There's only 10.)
Only on youtube (for now):
www.youtube.com/@madchat6135
#podcasts #podsky #youtube
Our #halloween episode is especially recommended for anyone interested in conversations about ... #comedy #anxiety #anxietydisorder #horror #fear #families #therapy #trauma #mentalillness #mentalhealth
anxiety being MY diagnosis (amongst others), as I say:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkos...
#madchat
And FINALLY:
IMO our *best* #madchat episode ... certainly our most popular ...
me and Tracy Clayton on #halloween, the whole holiday ... and also on #mentalhealth stuff.
(HOW I LOVED this discussion, which like only a few others, we got to record in person...)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkos...
Batman: The Animated Series is just ... so good (and nostalgic for us both). And it's *so problematic* ... It was just a perfect #madchat topic ...
And after that (just to link the rest of the 10 #madchat eps ... which really hold up IMO and are recommended to anyone interested in any of this)...
The rest are also just so fucking good:
Frasier (w/Nichole Perkins) which like, I'm laughing *so* hard right away:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-qd...
And then after that... (!) I discussed Killing Eve w/Sarah Kay ...
(as I recall, I fuckin LOVED this one too...)
#empathy #sociopathy #psychiatry #killingeve #madchat
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VrZ...
Esmé had previously done an #AKOMP event, as I've mentioned, my hardcover stop in San Francisco (about a year before her collection came out). Otherwise, I don't know her personally, really ...
It meant a lot to me, her doing both of these, the bookstore event and later this #madchat episode ...
Here's a page about the podcast, on my site ...
It was ... great. As I've been reminded, re-listening today ...
(All the surreality/slight annoyance [still] of hearing my pre-T voice notwithstanding ...)
#madchat #podcasts #audiosky #podsky #mentalhealth
www.sandyernestallen.com/mad-chat
one of my favorite examples of why #madchat ruled ... was our infinitely talented producer Lee made a special slowed down, stoner-y version of our theme song (which Lee and her vocalist sister *also made*) specially for this episode ...
#cannabis #podcasts #podsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXv4...
But our #madchat #reefermadness discussion was like ... in no small part us two, reefer reporter and madness reporter:
complaining in unison about the NYT/mainstream media ... cherry picking data and emphasizing whatever they want to make their own point (like: pot is bad, madness is scary, etc.)
This was our *fourth #madchat, correcting myself ...
I love this discussion in part because, like, we don't *agree* about everything ... and we get into it ...
(Fascinating hearing this much different version of myself, having this discussion as well ...)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXv4...
Have just arrived at our fifth #madchat episode, with cannabis reporter Amanda Chicago Lewis on #reefermadness — SUCH a good one, as I recall!!!
#cannabis #mentalhealth #mentalillness #psychosis #schizophrenia #madness #psychiatry #eugenics #warondrugs #drugs #madsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXv4...
just recapping:
I've thought my podcast #madchat was like gone-gone ... for technical reasons ...
instead, here it all is! alive and well on youtube!!!
so I'm delightedly revisiting these (truly wonderful) episodes ...
my personally irksome, pre-T voice notwithstanding ...
#bigwandenergy
The 3rd #madchat ep is recommended to #rollerderby fans, amongst *many* others: obvs #SFU fans, but also all those interested in discussions of (american) secular lenses and their insufficiency in addressing #madness #mortality #emotions #dying #mentalillness #trauma
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoHp...
We also got into: #spirituality and #madness given Caroline's background as a psychiatric patient (starting during childhood) and at the time we spoke for #madchat, training to become a rabbi ...
Since my surgery recovery over last winter, I've been rewatching *all* of Six Feet Under...
Back for our #madchat ep I picked and chose #mentalillness #SFU whatnot...having seen the series before...(it's a fav).
Our conversation in part focused on George, Billy, whiteness, "toxic masculinity"...
The only vaguely accurate portrayals of ECT itself tend to be of its use on willing and compliant patients. On Homeland, for example, the bipolar-diagnosed CIA operative protagonist (Claire Danes) undergoes ECT voluntarily. She seems to do so, however, in order to forget her affair with the terrorist she’s fallen for, images of their moments together flooding her mind as she succumbs to the anesthesia prior to convulsing. On Six Feet Under, one of the show’s widowed matriarch’s new partners, George, depicted brilliantly by James Cromwell, is revealed to have had a trauma history and, triggered, falls into a psychotic episode. He then elects to undergo ECT treatments, which are shown to be challenging but ultimately helpful to him. It’s the sort of nuance often lost in any conversation about shock. One of the psychiatric survivor activists I’ve come to know once expressed appreciation of that Six Feet Under story line about George—its being pro-ECT notwithstanding—because of how it endowed these topics with complexity. Viewers see George as a boy as he witnesses his alcoholic mother’s suicide, which now triggers a present-day episode. But it is largely socially unacceptable to portray shock patients as aggrieved about what’s happened to them, however damaged they have been by it. One exception being the 2005 biblical-monster flick Constantine, in which Keanu Reeves plays the titular chain-smoking demon slayer and shock survivor with a no-fucks-given attitude. In a flashback, an overhead shot depicts Constantine receiving ECT as a teenager. “My parents were normal; they did what most parents would do,” Constantine says in a voice-over. “They made it worse.”
In our #madchat episode on #sixfeetunder, we touched on #ECT #electroshock, a topic I went long on for @thebeliever.net last fall (finally; also in my first book):
www.thebeliever.net/a-brilliant-...
#psychiatry #mentalhealth #mentalilness #bipolar #psychmeds #psychiatrysky #psychsky #therapysky
Caroline is a very wise and outspoken #mentalhealth advocate (and as I said, nowadays, a friend) ...
She and I discuss in depth the #hearingvoices movement amongst other topics in this #madchat episode ...
As we did in this article later on for @thecut.com ...
www.thecut.com/2021/07/brit... #HVN
Now, one of *my* favorite episodes of course was our third, with advocate Caroline Mazel-Carlton, whom I mentioned just this morning ... in which we analyzed one of my all-time favorite television shows, Six Feet Under ...
#sixfeetunder #madchat #psychiatry #madsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoHp...
Re-listening to #madchat so far, we didn't let #crazyexgirlfriend / #bojack off the hook, nor did we critique their creators *unfairly*.
Our criticisms were all contextualized within our own experiences and various expertise (or lack thereof), offered w/ care/nuance:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3FH...
I also REALLY DIDN'T PULL MY PUNCHES re: (privileged, white, cis woman) Rachel Bloom's sometime psychiatric boostering on her television program ...
During our #madchat discussion of #crazyexgirlfriend
#psychiatry #SSRIs #psychmeds #mentalhealth #antidepressants
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3FH...
Picard with teacup of Earl Grey (hot), illo by Annie Mok #whatshelpingtoday
Also, speaking of, just for fun ...
re-floating this ...
original #madchat art by Annie Mok
#picard #startrek #tng #whatshelpingtoday
In that #madchat pilot, we're talking about #policing and the problems we still have to do with #mentalhealth being treated as not just literal "illness" but as *crime* by our racist, ableist, inequitable society ...
As I've long covered ... Including back at BuzzFeed News in 2015 (however well):
the #madchat pilot with Hannah is a great example of what I'm talking about, big picture...I was mindful that she probably had different ideas and experiences than *me* for example at the outset of our conversation—therefore knowing and believing whatever I do, I tried to be more thoughtful—not less
