Not As Crazy As You Think Podcast
Mental Health is attainable for anyone--especially those labeled with mental illness. Join artist, memoir writer, and bipolar psychiatric survivor, Jen Gaita Siciliano, as she challenges our world's current limited understanding of mental illness in interviews with artists, healers, educators and shamans, who offer fresh perspectives on mental health and creativity. Episodes also include Jen's personal writing on living as a bipolar creative, as well as news commentary that exposes psychiatry as an incompatible paradigm with the true landscape of the human mind. If you are ready for a new narrative on the mental realm in a place that celebrates crazy and cool without penalty, then Not As Crazy As You Think is for you!
Not As Crazy As You Think Podcast
Psychosis Outside the Box & Chapter 7: "Back in New York", A Reading from My Memoir (S5, E1)
In the episode, "Psychosis Outside the Box & Chapter 7: Back in New York"-- A Reading from My Memoir" (S5, E1), in opening up about my own first episode psychosis, I start with a description of the project "Psychosis Outside the Box" under the authors Shannon Pagdon and Nev Jones, which can be reviewed here: https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.20220488.
I point to how other traditions worldwide approach states of "psychosis" differently, with more respect and community support. I refer to an article written by Mad in America writer and counselor Jonathan Keyes which can be read here: https://www.madinamerica.com/2014/02/traditional-healing-psychosis/
I then read Chapter 7 of my Memoir, Not As Crazy As You Think.
The following is a book description of Chapter 7 "Back in New York":
The airline attendants act as my nurse team as I lay sick for hours into the 24-hour plane ride. My exhausted body then suddenly falls limp, and I enter a blissful dimension that bestows to me wisdom into the meaning of the entire universe. The angelic whispers assure me I am “coming home,” but that I must go back. And when I return with a thump to my body, miraculously, my illness has vanished.
On my first night back in New York, my angels are still within reach, and they lead me to a disturbing mistake in the matrix code on cable television, which they call the Hitler Glitch. They tell me I must prove with my one life everything, and that I must eliminate the Dead White Man Virus. When my parents become worried about my preoccupied state of mind, they admit me to St. Vincent’s Hospital, a mental institution in Harrison, NY.
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To listen to the chapters you missed, here are the podcast links to
Chapters 1-6 of Not As Crazy As You Think:
How Psychiatric Labeling Leads to "The St. Patty's Day Lockdown":
Reading of Chapter 1 from My Memoir (S1, E5)
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1462411/6987607
Traveling in 1994, and a Reading of Chapter 2: "The Scientific Library" (S1, E6):
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1462411/7069720
A Reading From My Memoir: Chapter 3, "The Brahman Class" (S2, E5):
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1462411/8115654
A Reading From My Memoir: Chapter 4, "The Taj Mahal" (S2, E7):
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1462411/8204867
The Imperialist Global Mental Health Movement
and A Reading of Chapter 5: "A Sentence to Bear" (S2, E10):
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1462411/8339023
A Reading From My Memoir: Chapter 6, "Mahander" (S2, E23):
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1462411/9164026
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