151: What if he made you think you were crazy?

“I was sure that this was his mental illness and not something wrong with me until I started hearing it in my head. And that was when I started to think, 'maybe I’m actually going crazy'.”

Producers: Sara Marinelli, Whit Missildine

Episode Summary: A woman finds respite from childhood anxieties in relationships only to enter a spiral of mental illness and unexplained phenomena. 

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Content/Trigger Warnings: emotional abuse, sexual abuse, domestic violence, drug use, explicit language

Intro Music: ""Illabye" – Tipper

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Outro Music: "The Moon is Down" - El Diablo & Adam Schraft (Rojo y Negro) @eldiablosf @rojo-y-negro www.eldiablobass.com/

 

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