Basket Case
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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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I felt too seen. Um, dragged.
Basket Case
09/24/24 • 30 min
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.
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
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.
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What world are we trying to build?!?
Basket Case
01/28/25 • 41 min
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 feeling confused, then rejected, then frustrated, their solitude turned into loneliness.
In this episode, Dr. Ellen Lee explains how loneliness is a social condition. Dr. Marisa G. Franco talks about the science of making friends (and the romance of queer friendship), and Jasmine Ostendorf-Rodriguez shows us what we can learn from fungi about building community in times of crisis.
Links:
The Professional-Managerial Class w/ Catherine Liu | Jacobin Show
White Supremacy Culture Worksheet from White Supremacy Culture
Platonic: How The Science of Attachment Can Help You Make – and Keep – Friends by Dr. Marisa G. Franco
Let’s Become Fungal! by Jasmine Ostendorf-Rodriguez
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She said you keep choosing the pain.
Basket Case
09/24/24 • 40 min
After Tina’s dad died, she was devastated. But was her grief “disordered”?
WITH:
+ Lashanna Williams, A Sacred Passing
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
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
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
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Introducing: Basket Case
Basket Case
09/17/24 • 1 min
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Prescription drug revolution
Basket Case
10/22/24 • 25 min
If depression isn't caused by a chemical imbalance, why does everyone think it is?
WITH:
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
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
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: 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
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Not the person anyone wants to be
Basket Case
12/17/24 • 38 min
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 someone else’s story. But no one ever talked about the *source* of the intense emotion – what was at the heart of it.
More to read about borderline:
I'm A Black Woman with Borderline Personality Disorder | Business Insider
Why I'm Distancing Myself From My Borderline Personality Disorder Diagnosis
Diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder Is Often Flawed | Scientific American
How Infinite Jest tethered me to life when I almost let it go | Aeon Essays
Borderline Personality and Self-Understanding of Psychopathology | Psychiatry At the Margins
I Have Forgiven Myself for My Pre-Diagnosis Recklessness | by Zuva Seven | An Injustice!
Skill Issues | Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Its Discontents
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You do not have to be good
Basket Case
11/19/24 • 36 min
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.
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.
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It's a very ritualized, precious routine
Basket Case
12/03/24 • 32 min
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 Aviv
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I was giving spectrum!
Basket Case
11/05/24 • 37 min
Bertranna’s autism makes her obsessed with finding the Truth about neurodiversity. With Ayesha Khan, PhD and The People’s Oracle.
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
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
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
What if the cure is touching grass
Basket Case
01/14/25 • 31 min
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 more and more people are self diagnosing from online content – and are telling their IRL therapists about it.
But what if the sense of belonging we get from claiming a diagnosis is just a stand in for what’s actually needed?
With Nadira Goff (Slate), P.E. Moscowitz (MentalHellth), and Marcus Brittain Fleming (LCSW, Bandwidth Care).
Links:
On TikTok, mental health creators are confused for therapists. That's a serious problem. (2021)
How mental health became a social media minefield
The BuzzFeedification of Mental Health | Mental Hellth (Feb 2021)
From pee tapes to Pulitzers: The rise and fall of Buzzfeed News | The Independent
Why "TikTok Diagnoses" Are on the Rise | Psychology Today
Women Are Discovering They May Have ADHD Or Be On The Autism Spectrum From Trending TikTok Videos
The fight over what’s real (and what’s not) on dissociative identity disorder TikTok - The Verge
https://neuroqueer.com/throw-away-the-masters-tools/
Mad World: Politics of Mental Health by Micha Frazer-Carroll
Girls Self-Diagnosing on TikTok Aren't Why Ableism Happens - Dr. Devon Price
Changing the Framework: Disability Justice | Leaving Evidence
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FAQ
How many episodes does Basket Case have?
Basket Case currently has 13 episodes available.
What topics does Basket Case cover?
The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Podcasts, Social Sciences and Science.
What is the most popular episode on Basket Case?
The episode title 'I felt too seen. Um, dragged.' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Basket Case?
The average episode length on Basket Case is 32 minutes.
How often are episodes of Basket Case released?
Episodes of Basket Case are typically released every 14 days.
When was the first episode of Basket Case?
The first episode of Basket Case was released on Sep 17, 2024.
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