Basket Case

Feb 24 2025 14 ep. 31 mins 26
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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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What some call rock bottom he calls a doorway

Feb 24 2025 28 mins  
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 bo

All the women in me are tired

Feb 10 2025 37 mins  
NK attends a workshop on divesting from people pleasing & begins to unravel a lifetime of grief and rage. TranscriptSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What world are we trying to build?!?

Jan 28 2025 41 mins  
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What if the cure is touching grass

Jan 13 2025 31 mins  
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 diagno

Embodied

Dec 30 2024 28 mins  
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 epis

Not the person anyone wants to be

Dec 16 2024 38 mins  
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. Transcript More to read about borderline: I'm A

It's a very ritualized, precious routine

Dec 02 2024 32 mins  
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. Transcript 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

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Nov 18 2024 36 mins  
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

I was giving spectrum!

Nov 04 2024 37 mins  
Bertranna’s autism makes her obsessed with finding the Truth about neurodiversity. With Ayesha Khan, PhD and The People’s Oracle. Transcript 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 a

Prescription drug revolution

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