Basket Case
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.
Episodes
For this bonus episode, NK and Imani talk about navigating conflict, accountability, and grace for ourselves and the people we’re in community with.
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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 to Europeans’ first contact with indigenous cultures in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, and the unfamiliar medicine that they found there. Today in the west, those healing modalities are often still characterized ...
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 social anxiety expert Dr. Aziz Gazipura about disrupting that pattern of social anxiety and learning to do something else.
Dr. Aziz Gazipura is the author of the books The Solution To Social Anxiety and Not Nice, an...
NK attends a workshop on divesting from people pleasing & begins to unravel a lifetime of grief and rage.
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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 fri...
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 ...
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. And in a collaborative art piece, Jazmine (JT) Green gives us a snapshot of what it feels like to finally learn to inhabit a body that could feel like home.
“Embodied” is episode three of Little Devil...
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:
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...
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.
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
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
Keep the antidepressants away. New study says chemical imbalance in brain isn't ca...
Samara puts her trust in psychiatry to fix her.
WITH:
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
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
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 Fo...
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