Afflictions Sugarcoated is a podcast where we sugarcoat some of the world’s so-called afflictions and rate their plausibility on a scale of 1 to 5.
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A Real Affliction: BPD, Culture, and Stigma is an interview podcast that explores how we live with, treat, advocate for, write about, and conceptualize borderline personality disorder, as well as common co-occurring challenges like complex PTSD, eating disorders, and substance use disorder, all of which I’ve experienced. My guests and I will also discuss how literature, film, television, photography, dance, philosophy, the history of medicine, feminist and disability studies, nature, and bio ...
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If we should let image and status affect our happiness only for an online audience? Cover art photo provided by mauro mora on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@mauromora
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"I learn about resilience from my garden": Solara Goldwynn of Royal Roads University
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29:00What is the relationship between BPD and food security? BPD and food insecurity are prevalent among university students, and research shows that poor diets, both in terms of insufficient calories and an overreliance on ultra-processed foods, fuel mood dysregulation, depression, and suicidality. I believe that most universities could do more to supp…
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“We need a society where we don’t step over mentally ill people”: Discussing bioethics with Lucy Yanow
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31:00Why do people living with mental illness, including BPD, need to think about bioethics? Because ordinary citizens can now make life-and-death decisions for themselves and others. As laws and regulations change around issues such as involuntary hospitalization and medical assistance in dying, it’s important for everyone to read and watch lectures ab…
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Complex trauma is in our house now: Courtenay Stallings, author of Laura’s Ghost: Women Speak About Twin Peaks
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42:09Why is Laura Palmer a heroine for many of us? Because David Lynch's depiction of her in the Twin Peaks franchise was one of the first and remains one of the most powerful depictions of complex trauma from child sexual abuse. In this interview with professor and writer Courtenay Stallings, we talk about her wonderful book, Laura’s Ghost: Women Speak…
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“I thought that mental health problems were something that you caught while young”: Lucy Yanow
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27:59Can recreational drugs be used to treat BPD in controlled environments? In this interview, I talk with Lucy Yanow, who holds a master’s degree in Bioethics and Society and formerly worked as a midwife, doula, and protector of reproductive rights. I ask her about her experience taking ketamine pills for depression and suicidality, but our conversati…
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The book that saves lives: Mishell Baker’s Borderline
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44:26How can an urban fantasy novel save lives? By depicting a protagonist with BPD who is resourceful, loyal, and heroic. In Borderline, the first book in the Arcadia Project trilogy, author and BPD survivor Mishell Baker does just that. In this interview, her perspectives on her books and her life reveal a woman who has found strength and inner peace …
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“People with BPD are not a different kind of person”: Dr. Alexander Kriss, author of Borderline
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42:10What can a psychoanalyst learn from patients with BPD? In this interview, Dr. Alexander Kriss, author of the recently published Borderline: Biography of a Personality Disorder, shares insights gained from treating patients with the disorder. We discuss his book, which tells the story of one patient’s recovery while also deconstructing the BPD diagn…
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“It's Upon Us to Widen That Lens”: Dr. Merri Lisa Johnson, author of Girl in Need of a Tourniquet
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41:01Why should we draw on the field of disability studies to envision, treat, and talk about BPD? In this second and final part of my interview with Professor Lisa Johnson, author of Girl in Need of a Tourniquet: Memoir of a Borderline Personality, we explore this question and others, including the connection between BPD and sexuality, why we might dia…
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After Life and building a life worth remembering with BPD and EMDR
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18:51Would you choose to hold on to a bad memory for eternity? In this bonus episode, I explain how EMDR therapy and a rewatch of the glorious Japanese film, After Life, made me reflect on memory. Hirokazu Kore-eda, director, After Life (1998 film) American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.) …
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“A Vulnerability Artist Who Fights Ableism”: Dr. Merri Lisa Johnson on BPD
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47:00What does writing from the frontline of BPD look like? If the author is borderline up-ender Dr. Lisa Johnson, it looks and sounds like a witty, raw, and dazzling conflagration. In this interview, she and I discuss her memoir, Girl in Need of a Tourniquet: Memoir of a Borderline Personality, and share our experiences of navigating academia while bei…
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Movement therapy for BPD with psychotherapist Ellis Amdur
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20:44Can movement therapy support people with BPD? In this interview, psychotherapist, licensed martial artist, and acclaimed writer Ellis Amdur describes his success with teaching baduanjin qigong, a Chinese breathing and movement system, to a patient suffering from acute BPD. If you are having thoughts of suicide, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Sui…
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“There is no final destination for a human being”: Psychotherapist Ellis Amdur
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31:25How do therapists come to think of BPD after a long career? In this conversation with Ellis Amdur—a retired psychotherapist, award-winning writer, and licensed martial artist—he offers his perspective on BPD, including what a background in Jungian psychology taught him about our singular and ever-evolving journeys. Trigger warning: This episode men…
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“He was provoking all these symptoms he had wanted to cure”: Nina Shope, author of Asylum
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35:00How have power dynamics between doctors and patients changed over the past century and a half? In my second and final interview with Nina Shope, author of the award-winning historical novel Asylum, we talk about the complicated relationship between neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot and his most famous patient as he treated her for hysteria and docume…
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“I was fascinated with showing the things behind hysteria that were being erased”: Nina Shope on Asylum
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25:45What did BPD look like in the 19th century? It looked like hysteria, a phenomenon that puzzled doctors and fascinated the public. In this episode, I interview Nina Shope, author of the award-winning historical novel Asylum, which explores the power dynamics between Jean-Martin Charcot, the father of neurology as we know it today, and his most famou…
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"Insurance companies are breaking the law": Paula Tusiani-Eng of Emotions Matter
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25:18How can we access expensive care? In the US, being diagnosed with BPD is often the first step in an odyssey through a complex and unjust health care system. In the second part of my interview with Paula Tusiani-Eng, co-founder of Emotions Matter, she discusses how to get life-saving coverage from your insurer, the wonderful success of her organizat…
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A new MP3 sermon from Covenant Family Church (OPC) is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: A Cry for Help Subtitle: Psalm 119 Speaker: Peter Bringe Broadcaster: Covenant Family Church (OPC) Event: Sunday - PM Date: 8/25/2024 Bible: Psalm 119:81-88 Length: 23 min.
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A new MP3 sermon from Westminster Reformed Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: God's Sovereignty in Affliction Subtitle: Job Speaker: Joe Smith RPCNA Broadcaster: Westminster Reformed Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday - PM Date: 8/25/2024 Bible: Job 1:6-12 Length: 53 min.…
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A new MP3 sermon from Grace Covenant Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Psalm 119:107 Subtitle: Psalm 119 Speaker: David Giarrizzo Broadcaster: Grace Covenant Church Event: Sunday - PM Date: 8/26/2024 Bible: Psalm 119:107 Length: 30 min.
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Finding God's Goodness During Affliction
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39:00A new MP3 sermon from West Park Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Finding God's Goodness During Affliction Speaker: Russell Threet Broadcaster: West Park Baptist Church Event: Sunday - PM Date: 8/25/2024 Bible: Psalm 119:65-72 Length: 39 min.
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A new MP3 sermon from Westminster Reformed Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Medicine of Affliction Subtitle: John Speaker: Joe Smith RPCNA Broadcaster: Westminster Reformed Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday - AM Date: 8/25/2024 Bible: John 4:46-54 Length: 56 min.…
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A new MP3 sermon from Sharon RP Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Joys in Trials Subtitle: 1 Peter Semons Speaker: Bryan Schneider Broadcaster: Sharon RP Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 8/25/2024 Bible: 1 Peter 1:6-9 Length: 38 min.
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A new MP3 sermon from Verity Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Psalm 4: Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Subtitle: The Book of Psalms Speaker: Pastor Roger Jimenez Broadcaster: Verity Baptist Church Event: Bible Study Date: 8/21/2024 Bible: Psalm 4 Length: 48 min.…
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What I wish I’d known about getting a PhD with BPD
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14:45In this solo bonus episode, I talk about what I learned while getting my MA and PhD at Berkeley and offer tips for anyone who wants to pursue a higher education degree while managing their BPD. It can be done!Av Cynthia Gralla
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“How do I meet other people with BPD?”: Paula Tusiani-Eng of Emotions Matter
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32:11What do people with BPD need? When Paula Tusiani-Eng co-founded a BPD non-profit after the tragic loss of her sister Pamela, she realized that we often need more community support. In this interview, Paula tells me about Pamela’s struggle with BPD in the 1990s and how Emotions Matter has built a community for others like her. If you are having thou…
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“I Love Us”: Melanie Goldman on living with and treating BPD
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51:13How can people with BPD find their voice? In this candid interview, the radiant and loving Melanie Goldman (@mindovermelanie) tells me her story of lived experience with BPD, from the shock of the diagnosis to the joys of advocacy and reclaiming her voice. She also shares wisdom from her training as a registered psychotherapist and her ultimate goa…
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Is No Longer Human about BPD—and should we even ask that question?
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25:40Can we diagnose the narrator of Osamu Dazai’s novel, No Longer Human, with BPD or some other diagnosis? And does it make sense to try? In this bonus summer solo episode, I give my perspective as a Japanese literature scholar and a person with BPD. Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author” Sh…
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“These are like emotional, psychological Trojan horses": American McGee's BPD Rabbit
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40:44Can a stuffed animal help people to cope with BPD? In this episode, I interview American McGee, the celebrated video game designer and mastermind behind the mental health Plushie Dreadfuls line. We talk about his BPD Rabbit, metaphors and stereotypes, the connection between this bunny and the one in American McGee's Alice, the crowd design process,…
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“Folks with BPD are some of the brightest lights in my life”: Dr. Sara Masland
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25:15Who gets BPD, and are they likely to recover? In this second and final part of my interview with Dr. Sara Masland, she and I discuss the gender distribution for BPD, contemplate the prognosis for people with the disorder based on longitudinal studies (spoiler alert: it’s bright!), and consider what needs to change in medical culture over the next 5…
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“The BPD diagnosis is an entry point to understanding how you can get to recovery”: Dr. Sara Masland
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31:38Why do we need a generalist approach to treating BPD? Because there are nearly 6000 treatment-seeking people with BPD to every certified, specialist clinician in the United States. In this episode, Dr. Sara Masland explains how she is helping to simultaneously reduce stigma and increase access to care by training others in Good Psychiatric Manageme…
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“We’re starting young” with fighting stigma: Jessie Shepherd on Millie the Cat
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17:45Why create a children's book about BPD? This is the second half of my interview with Jessie Shepherd, who is a writer, licensed clinical mental health counselor, licensed professional counselor, and director of Blue Clover Therapy. We talk more about her book for children and adults, Millie the Cat Has Borderline Personality Disorder, and muse on t…
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“Every single thing we have to manage comes with a beautiful, positive opposite”: Jessie Shepherd
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21:29What are some of the gifts of BPD? Find out from an adorable cat named Millie. Here, I interview Jessie Shepherd—a licensed clinical mental health counselor, licensed professional counselor, and director of Blue Clover Therapy—about her book for children and adults, Millie the Cat Has Borderline Personality Disorder. Jessie Shepherd, Millie the Cat…
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