Feb 04 2025 3 mins
I was 25 the first time I had a psychotic break—standing in a hospital shower, staring at my own reflection in an anti-suicide showerhead, trying to make sense of the person looking back at me. It wasn’t the beginning of my story, and it definitely wasn’t the end.
Beneath the Noise is a podcast about mental illness—the raw, disorienting, sometimes absurd reality of living with a brain that refuses to play by the rules. It’s part memoir, part cultural analysis, and entirely uninterested in neat, easy narratives.
This isn’t about self-improvement. It’s about survival, diagnosis, misdiagnosis, the long road of recovery, and all the ways mental illness collides with work, relationships, pop culture, and identity.
If you’ve ever found yourself spiraling at 3 AM, side-eyeing your own brain like it’s an unreliable narrator—well, you’re not alone.
This is Beneath the Noise
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