depressed girl's guide to life

 we have a world now in which was can talk about therapy freely or if we’re feeling depressed or even talk about medication and what we’re on in a way that we would just never have talked about it even just a few years ago. so this is amazing but with all amazing things we have to think about regulation, right? its a new thing just like bitcoin and all these other unregulated markets. what’s too much when talk about our mental heal...

i always wanted to be perfect. and i still do im not even going to pretend like perfection isn’t something i am absolutely striving for and it absolutely paralyzes me on a day to day basis because if im not perfect then whats the point in doing anything, right?   but life isn’t just one path to perfection and oh yeah you got the right answer because you followed this systematic process of doing something. that’s just not most of li...

i’m not gwenyth paltrow and i never will and i’m not even trying to be her - i mostly just want to be normal and all this shit makes me feel normal and good about actually being in my life and starting my day and all that. full disclosure i do and have enjoyed doing the work thus far. i don’t regret wanting to be a better person and actually wanting to understand myself and get to know myself better but also sometimes… sometimes i ...

the purpose of this podcast is to focus on self betterment. that was the goal for me - that was the most important thing to showcase and talk about going from more negative ways of thinking and behaviors to more positive ones.  my issue that comes up and i feel like i can almost describe it as recovery in a way - because i think about my old ways and get a craving - the 'healing journey' makes me have bad person withdrawa...

i didn’t really know what an ego was for a while. i knew having a big ego meant like you kind of thought you were better than other people and kind of an asshole and probably a man? i saw egos as this very stereotypical type of thing. again things you see in tv and movies and i never just never thought about how any of it manifested in real life. i never thought about my ego because i thought - get this - that i didn’t have one. i&...

we talk a lot about our minds here on this show. what we haven’t talked about yet is our brain’s connection to our body. we haven't talked about bodies. and its a weird one.  why’s it weird? because realistically maybe situations and our feelings and shit in our mind can be like subjective right?  the weird thing about bodies and feeling that dysphoric and confused connection to your body is that for the most part bodies are j...

if i asked you to define trauma, what would you say? it’s not a question with an easy answer. for one thing, trauma is a lot of different things to different people. some may repress or others may have leaned into the feelings heavily.  sometimes i wonder - does the bigness of the trauma question, the unending possibilities of answers, the vagueness and open-endedness of the whole concept of trauma. is that part of what makes traum...

it’s easy to devolve into cynicism. it's so fun and relatable to self-deprecating.  first of all, all your friends are probably doing it. genuinely do this the next time you’re with people - ask how are you and listen to their responses. hardly anyone will say they’re doing well or earnestly genuinely say “i’m good”.  but also, your brain is listening. and you're going to be more miserable if you keep telling the world th...

the anxiety episode! if this is depressed girl’s guide to life, why are we talking about anxiety? they’re so different, right? depression feels like such a downer in the worst way possible and anxiety feels like such an upper… in the worst way possible also. that in itself should show that they’re honestly very much in the same vein of what we’re talking about – shitty feelings. they accompany each other so well. like peanut butter...

do you remember hitting puberty? it was awful. it was physically painful and emotionally debilitating. but everyone only talks about the physically - how you grow and get tall but no one talks about how your mind is wrecked and ravaged by hormones and the onset of new fun mental issues… for years to come. now as an adult - it’s time to take the emotional aspects of puberty into our hands and actually grow this time. 

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talking to yourself has such negative “crazy” connotations. but it’s probably the most effective way that i stay sane. normalize being your own pal that you talk to in a healthy and productive way!! that’s all. we all need breaks (see chapter on self care), im taking a break until january 13th. until then.

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drinking is everywhere. so is depression. they’re friends, they go everywhere together. it can be hard being a depressed person who drinks but instead of stopping completely, we can at least figure out some tricks to make our lives easier, still fun, and #drinkmindfully.

 but rule 1: never go into a night out with bad vibes. they will find you later on.

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literally what even is imposter syndrome? it feels overly simplified. what about that weird feeling when you feel like you’re too good for all the situations you’re in? what about that other weird feeling where when you accomplish something and it stops feeling special because you did it? 

we talk about it all on this episode.

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