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Submit ReviewAccording to modern day psychologists, when16 year old Florence Nightingale said that God had told her that she needed to be a nurse, she wasn’t speaking metaphorically; it was her first experience with auditory hallucinations. Using Florence’s private writing and her correspondence, historians and psychologists determined that she dealt with bipolar disorder, which both helped and hindered her amazing career.
SOURCES: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000489.htm https://www.grunge.com/191518/the-tragic-life-of-charles-darwin/ https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/florence-nightingale-1 https://www.newswise.com/articles/was-florence-nightingale-mentally-ill https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/florence-nightingale-suffered-from-bipolar-disorder-1.366460
was-this-wonderful-lady-and-what-was-her-disease.html">Florence Nightingale and Bipolar Disorder
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-worlds-most-famous-nurse-florence-nightingale-180974155/
NOTE: In this episode, you’ll hear my volume going up and down slightly. This isn’t my mic or my editing; it’s my actual voice due to currently having COVID and being unable to support my voice for a full sentence. I’ll most likely re-record this episode once I have my lung capacity back, but I wanted to get a new story out for you guys!
John Wheeler the Third- Jack- accomplished more in one life than a dozen people combined. After graduating from West Point, serving in Vietnam, and getting degrees from Harvard and Yale, Jack spent his career working high-security government positions. Despite a scandal or two along the way, Jack was considered a stand up guy. Jack was also bipolar, but he didn’t let it run his life. He took his medication daily and was clearly able to get things done despite of his disorder- or perhaps because of it. But on December 29th, 2010, Jack started acting strangely. In what’s now considered to be a mental break, Jack was seen on CCTV footage wandering through Wilmington, DE wearing only one shoe. Two days later, Jack’s body was found in a landfill.
SOURCES:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_P._Wheeler_III Unsolved Mysteries – Season 2
Just outside Detroit, Michigan, a poorhouse was built in the early 1800s. In addition to treating the mentally ill, Eloise Hospital had many other uses, pioneered treatments, and was once pronounced the most expensive psychiatric facility in the world.
SOURCES: https://web.archive.org/web/20140512231142/http://www.thewaynedispatch.com/history-of-eloise/ https://www.hometownlife.com/story/news/local/westland/2020/08/07/former-eloise-asylum-westland-could-become-hotel-event-space/3305085001/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eloise_(psychiatric_hospital) we-called-insane-asylum-eloise.html">https://fornology.blogspot.com/2018/05/when-we-called-insane-asylum-eloise.html
Princess Deok-hye, the last princess of Korea, started life as a happy child. But when she was 8, her father died and a series of unfortunate events quickly followed. Forced to move to Japan due to annexation, where her mental health declined, historians consider Deok-hye’s life to have been stolen by colonization.
SOURCES:
https://historyofyesterday.com/the-tragic-life-of-the-last-princess-of-korea-b6812df49041
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20121211000831
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20100808000154
Have you ever been a fan of someone famous and just KNOW that the two of you would be friends if you met? That’s known as a parasocial relationship. But are parasocial relationships normal? Are they safe? What does the object of affection get from the relationship?
SOURCES: https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/parasocial-relationships-online-cancelling-bon-appetit
Parasocial Relationships: The Nature of Celebrity Fascinations
We all know Judy Garland as one of the most successful actors of the classic Hollywood days. But behind the scenes of her famous movies, Judy- with some help from MGM Studios- was struggling with mental health and drug addiction.
This week I interviewed Emilie Leyes, who is a performer and a specialist in neuroplasticity and brain training. Currently working on her Master’s and PhD in Mind and Body Medicine, Emilie works with actors and non-actors alike to keep their minds and bodies safe during performances.
Why does it seem like so many artists are mentally ill? Are mentally ill people more likely to go into the arts, or do the arts create mentally ill people?
Hello everyone, I’m back! I sorely needed the break, but I also missed podcasting so much! I’m back on my crappy mic in this episode until I replace my newer one, but I think it sounds all right!
CW: Child abuse, suicidal ideation, sexual assault
JT Leroy became famous almost overnight for his novel SARAH, a fictionalized version of his upbringing with his sex worker mother who later forced him into sex work. But as he published more and his fame grew, people started to wonder who JT Leroy really was.
Despite not having any qualifications in psychology, Bruno Bettelheim managed to do irreparable damage to the autistic community in his 40 years of practice. He promoted the theory that neglectful parenting, or “refrigerator mothers” caused autism and psychopathy, and while the director of a school for troubled children, exercised corporal punishment constantly. It wasn’t until his death that the truth about Bruno came out.
“Autism” first got its name in the early 1900s, when a doctor believed that certain children were so obsessed with themselves (the Greek word “auto” meaning “self”) that they chose to block out everything and everyone outside of their own mind. Over the next hundred-plus years, doctors and researchers, as well as celebrities, would throw in their hypotheses and two cents as autism became more understood. Several people, both medical and not, caused irreparable harm to the autistic community, harm that endures to this day. Organizations have been set up to essentially exterminate autism- and therefore, autistic people. Through social media, actual autistic people are finally getting their voices heard.
SOURCES:
medical.net/health/Autism-History.aspx">https://www.news-medical.net/health/Autism-History.aspx https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3757918/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Triplett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_MMR_autism_fraud https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05112-1
Princess Alice, the mother of recently deceased Prince Philip, is described as a princess who “refused to fit the royal mold.” Alice was born different, with congenital deafness. But starting as a toddler, she learned to speak and lip read German, English, French, and Greek. Once married to Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, she began doing charity work, to which she dedicated her life. She also spent a few years in an asylum, diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, and was treated by Sigmund Freud himself.
With two well-publicized mass shootings happening last month, America yet again set to blaming the criminals’ violence on mental illness. Former presidents have also claimed over the decades that mental illness is the cause for all shocking violent acts. But research shows that actually, the mentally ill make up only 4% of ALL gun violence. So what do the other 96% of gun criminals have in common?
SOURCES: https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2016.0017
https://theconversation.com/mass-shootings-arent-growing-more-common-and-evidence-contradicts-common-stereotypes-about-the-killers-121471 https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/wife-calif-shooting-victim-believes-husband-targeted-article-1.2458790 https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/08/05/is-mental-illness-causing-americas-mass-shootings-no-research-shows/?fbclid=IwAR3UkL6QKz0UcRPjf8_GgVTTFZFm6MfyQy0fLnhGTUK3KA-3eapAPk-_jAI&noredirect=on https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/23/2020-shootings/ https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-03-23/why-mass-shootings-stopped-boulder-atlanta
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/dallas-police-ambush/protests-spawn-cities-across-u-s-over-police-shootings-black-n605686 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-claims-experts-mental-illness-mass-shootings/story?id=65101823
Many Mass Shooters Share A Common Bond: Male Grievance Culture
8chan Back Online, Even After Another Internet Company Cancels Its Service
Mary and Charles Lamb were a brother and sister team who spent decades both in and out of private psych hospitals AND making their mark on the 19th century British literary scene.
When Colleen Adams disappeared on November 22, 1973, her husband Geoffrey told authorities that her violent post partum depression had inspired her to desert her husband and daughters. While Colleen’s family never believed this was true, her mental instability was backed up by a past boyfriend as well. Did Colleen choose to leave, or was there foul play involved?
Geoffrey-Adams-got-away-killing-wife-Colleen-Adelaide-cracking-45-years.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8653651/How-Geoffrey-Adams-got-away-killing-wife-Colleen-Adelaide-cracking-45-years.html https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-22/inside-the-tragic-life-of-colleen-adams/12579244 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-19/geoffrey-adams-murder-trial-closing-remarks/12575284 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-14/geoffrey-adams-murder-trial-hears-statement-of-former-boyfriend/12558142 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-12/murder-accused-geoffrey-adams-admits-push-and-shove-with-wife/12545254 Adams-daughter-Marie-told-mum-Colleen-abandoned-family-baby-blues.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8788233/Geoffrey-Adams-daughter-Marie-told-mum-Colleen-abandoned-family-baby-blues.html https://www.news.com.au/national/south-australia/geoffrey-gordon-adams-who-killed-wife-47-years-ago-likely-to-die-of-aggressive-brain-tumour-before-sentencing/news-story/fd6c14380cc685d283d3e8f28d13daa6
When America was born, founding father Patrick Henry was newly married to his much younger new wife. But what happened to his first wife, Sarah Shelton? Why did she spend the last four years of her life locked in the family cellar?
SOURCES:
Sarah Shelton Henry: The Wife Patrick Henry Kept in the Cellar by Sheila Phelps Inderbitzen
“Sir, We Are Not Weak” – Women of the Patrick Henry Household
http://podcasts.history.org/041210/PatrickHenrysSecret.cfm https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/patrick-and-sarah-henry-mental-illness-18th-century-america https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Shelton_Henry
shelton-henry.html">Sarah Shelton Henry
https://books.google.com/books?id=8paiDAAAQBAJ&printsec=copyright#v=onepage&q&f=false
Quite a few accomplished chess players ended up becoming mentally ill later in their careers- but is chess itself responsible for its players’ problems?
SOURCES
https://members.tripod.com/HSK_Chess/steinitz.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/five-myths-about-chess/2020/11/20/529fb63a-2a79-11eb-9b14-ad872157ebc9_story.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Steinitz https://www.chess.com/article/view/can-anyone-be-an-im-or-gm
Chess and Mental Illness: 12 Chess Player Who Suffered From Severe Mental Problems
tragic-story-of-brilliant-alvis.html">http://tartajubow.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-tragic-story-of-brilliant-alvis.html https://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2020000300169 https://bleeckerstreetmedia.com/editorial/the-most-dangerous-game#:~:text=After%20he%20lost%20his%20championship,inmate%20up%20for%20a%20game.
It’s the first episode of Rachel’s new podcast HOOKED!
On May 15 2001, one of the most beloved bloggers of the early internet died from a brain aneurysm after battling leukemia.
On May 19, 2001, the internet learned that Kaycee Nicole Swenson had not, in fact, died. She had never existed.
SOURCES:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaycee_Nicole
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2001/may/28/internetnews.mondaymediasection https://www.webtimemedias.com/article/transfernet-fabulous-fate-kaycee-nicole https://metatalk.metafilter.com/20653/Kaycee-Nicole-Metafilters-first-investigation https://www.metafilter.com/7878/The-Kaycee-Nicole-Swensen-Faq
Why do we want to squeeze or nibble on things we find overwhelmingly adorable? It’s called “cute aggression!”
of-joy-may-help-us-maintain-emotional-balance.html">“Tears of Joy” May Help Us Maintain Emotional Balance
https://www.brainfacts.org/thinking-sensing-and-behaving/emotions-stress-and-anxiety/2019/cute-aggression-why-you-want-to-squeeze-adorable-creatures–091019 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271503312_Dimorphous_Expressions_of_Positive_Emotion_Displays_of_Both_Care_and_Aggression_in_Response_to_Cute_Stimuli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cute_aggression https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/12/31/679832549/when-too-cute-is-too-much-the-brain-can-get-aggressive https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181204143857.htm
Did you know that in addition to creating a cereal empire, John Harvey Kellogg was a doctor AND ran a sanitarium for most of his life? Obsessed with purity of mind and body, Kellogg created a home-away-from-home resort where people with all kinds of illness could relax, eat his food inventions, and get all the yogurt enemas they could ever want!
SOURCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg#Battle_Creek_Sanitarium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Creek_Sanitarium https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/12/john-harvey-kellogg-believed-light-could-cure-diabetes/382916/
Happy holidays and a merry New Year!
James Taylor is one of the most successful American musicians alive today. Coming from a musical family, James wrote his first song on guitar at 14. By the time he was 22, he was being called “the new voice of rock.” But as he’d risen in his career, James’ family history of depression and addiction had come with him.
SONGS:
“You’ve Got a Friend” (written by Carole King, performed by James Taylor) “Fire and Rain” (written and performed by James Taylor)
It’s been awhile since I gave voice to a piece of writing: this week, I read Virginia Woolf’s ON BEING ILL.
CW/TW: Suicide/ suicidal ideation, childhood sexual abuse
Virginia Woolf is as famous for her suicide as she is for her writing. Born into a family with a history of mental health and being a victim of sexual abuse, Virginia never stood a chance. Even so, she produced some of the most famous English literature in history and pioneered new writing styles that endure to this day.
SOURCES
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4817111/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7112729/#B24
Many true crime podcasts have covered the death of Elisa Lam, a Canadian college student. But few have covered what was considered a large factor in her death: her bipolar disorder. This is a different look into the mysterious Elisa Lam case.
TW: Eating disorders, suicide
Happily retired from her running career, Suzy Favor Hamilton was looking forward to leading a more normal life. But soon, Suzy found quiet life in Wisconsin unbearable; she needed something exciting to fill the space running had left. Hoping to satisfy her insatiable sex drive, Suzy signed up to be a Las Vegas escort. Before she knew it, she had left behind her husband and daughter to live there full time, but when a tabloid reporter discovered who she really was, her world exploded.
TW: Eating disorders, suicide, adult language
Suzy Favor Hamilton went to the Olympics three times. She was one of the fastest runners in the world. But her undiagnosed bipolar disorder gave her performance anxiety that showed itself in panic attacks and depression. Suzy felt that, even as an Olympian, she was never good enough, and her biggest fear was that she was just like her bipolar brother, Dan.
Philadelphia, one of the oldest cities in the United States, prides itself on preserving and remembering its history. So why is it that the story of Mary Lum Girard, business assistant and wife to one of the richest men in American history, has been swept under the rug? Her husband, Stephen Girard, has several locations in the city named after him, but none of them mention Mary. The only note of her can be found as a tiny post script on a plaque lauding her husband- a plaque that hangs in the lobby of the hospital where she was committed for her insanity.
This episode is a collaboration with Josh Hitchens, host of the podcast Going Dark Theatre, which can be found here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-dark-theatre/id1486051154
CW: This episode contains discussion of suicide
Mark Drybrough and Nadia Kajouji both completed suicide after being sent instructions on how by a friend on the internet. But who was this friend really, and why did they encourage dozens of people online to kill themselves?
A “catfish” is a person who hides behind a fake identity to hook someone into a relationship, usually in a way that benefits the catfish. While the term only came to be in 2010 and is usually applied to online relationships, “catfishing” has been happening since the birth of Lonely Hearts ads in the 1600s. What makes someone become a catfish? Do they feel bad about fooling their victim? And can they be punished for their actions?
Everyone knows Charlie Chaplin, but few people know about his mother Hannah. The daughter of a mentally ill mother, and who developed syphilis-related psychosis, Hannah still managed to impart her performing skills to her son Charlie. While Hannah never reached the level of fame that her husband or sons, grandchildren, and great grandchildren did, her legacy is carried on in their performances.
Dr. Teleka Patrick suspected she was schizophrenic. But she was worried that if she got an official diagnosis, she’d lose her psychiatry license, so she kept her suspicions quiet and tried to get on with her life. But her mental illness ended her marriage. It earned her a restraining order from her pastor. And eventually, it led to her mysterious death.
What happened in the months and days leading up to the murder-suicide of the Hart family? What was the trigger? Mental illness? Marital problems? Or just the Hart mothers being unable to see a future for their kids?
On March 25, 2018, Jennifer Hart killed her family of 8 in a shocking murder-suicide. No one who knew the Harts could believe that this perfect, happy blended family met such a tragic end. Jennifer had kept everyone at arm’s length while crafting the picture of perfect family online. Behind the scenes was abuse, neglect, and starvation.
Clennon King Jr. was the first black man to run for president. But before blazing that trail, the professor at an all-black college tried to enroll in the University of Mississippi to earn his doctorate. The school, also known as Ole Miss, was whites only, and it was declared that any black man who pursued a position at a white college had to be insane. After being ruled mentally ill and spending two weeks in an asylum, King’s life was effectively ruined, no matter how much he tried to fix it.
Empress Sissi of Austria is often compared to Princess Diana for her charitable work, her mental health issues, and her untimely end. This is the story of a reluctant empress.
Jimmy Stewart is one of the most famous actors in Hollywood history. He was also a pilot during World War 2. Returning with hearing loss, a hair-trigger temper, and PTSD, Jimmy wasn’t sure if it was worth it to return to Hollywood, or even continue with his life.
When Christine Collins’ nine year old son Walter went missing in 1928, she insisted the LAPD find him. When they introduced her to a boy who claimed he was Walter, Christine knew he wasn’t her son. Considering her too much trouble, the LAPD committed her to the Psychopathic Ward of the Los Angeles County Hospital. But there was even more to Walter’s disappearance than just a boy gone missing and another acting as an imposter. Christine’s story would soon be found to be connected to a serial killing mother-son team and one of the most devastating murder cases in California history.
Winston Churchill is one of history’s most famous depressives. But as one of the most noted Churchill biographer was working on his own book about the man, he realized that there was almost no evidence to support the claim that Churchill had a diagnosis of depression. How did someone with no depression diagnosis become famous for conquering his depression to save the world?
Main sources:
Podcast: What Really Happened? hosted by Andrew Jenks
Book: Clementine by Sophia Purnell
If Mary Wollstonecraft was the first feminist, her daughter, Mary Shelley, was the first “goth girl.” The author of Frankenstein, Mary battled with depression for most of her life. She doubted her writing talent, her husband had a wandering eye, and all but one of her children died. Still, she managed to created a completely new genre of writing and break some glass ceilings on the way.
Mary Wollstonecraft is considered by some to be the first feminist. Brave though she was, she still suffered from depression, attempting suicide several times. In her short life, she had an impressive amount of adventures and produced an amazing amount of writing.
Why are we furiously washing our hands to try and prevent getting the Corona Virus? Because of this week’s subject!
16 year old Ethan Couch took a drunken joyride in 2013 that led to 4 deaths and 9 injuries- yet was only sentenced to rehabilitation. Why? Because a psychologist testified that Ethan suffered from affluenza- meaning, he was too rich to understand that actions had consequences. Is affluenza real? How will this ruling affect similar cases in the future?
PROMO: Fresh Hell Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fresh-hell-podcast/id1456161753
Dorothea Dix suffered an abusive childhood, but escaped through school and, eventually teaching. After a nervous breakdown, Dorothea went abroad for a vacation, but ended up falling in with a group of healthcare reformers. She adopted their method of investigating hospitals and reporting her findings to the government and took it home to America. She traveled through the US, trying to fix the mental health system and treatment of the insane. What she left behind was a kinder, more efficient healthcare system.
(Please forgive the audio quality… it’s been quite a week.)
ADULT LANGUAGE is featured in this episode!
This week’s episode was a collaboration with Kate from Ignorance Was Bliss. We talk about Narcissistic Personality Disorder, how it affects relationships, and what someone has to display to be diagnosed with it.
Listen to Ignorance Was Bliss: https://iwbpodcast.podbean.com/
A teenager makes a splash in the Civil War scene with her incredible speeches. Backed by anti-slavery sponsors like Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony, Anna Elizabeth Dickinson took the world by storm.
What, a facility that didnt torture its patients?! That’s right, we’re taking it easy this holiday week and talking about the State Hospital for the Insane at Danville!
Prodigy William Sidis had everything he needed to succeed in life- but being a prodigy kind of ruined his life.
Gaslighting is a common tactic used by sociopaths, narcissists, dictators, and cult leaders. Often times, it’s applied so slowly and meticulously that it’s hard to detect.
Domestic Abuse Hotline: 1-800-799-7233
The case of Michelle Carter made the nation ask, “can someone force someone else to kill themselves?” According to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, yes, and that’s exactly what Michelle did to her boyfriend Conrad Roy. In part 1 of 2, we look at the two teens, their respective mental illnesses, and the work up to the fateful night of July 13, 2014.
National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255
Opening in 1911 to serve the black community of Maryland, the Crownsville Hospital wasn’t the godsend it was supposed to be. Treating exclusively black patients for decades, the hospital bylaws forbade the hiring of African-American staff, prolonging medical racism and making Crownsville merely a dumping ground for the wayward members of the black community… and things didn’t get much better into the 2st century.
After unofficial diagnoses caused Barry Goldwater to lose the 1964 presidential election, the American Psychiatric Association established a new section of their Code of Ethics: Section 7. This prohibits any psychiatrist from diagnosing a public individual whom they have not personally examined. Section 7, otherwise known as the Goldwater Rule, made the news again during the election of 2016, when a group of mental health professionals voiced concerns about the mental health of President Donald Trump. Is Section 7 outdated, or should psychiatrists continue to keep their diagnoses of public figures to themselves?
Something a little different this week: Rachel covers 3 topics that can’t fill a whole episode, but are fascinating anyway.
Camille Claudel was a French sculptor who struggled for recognition in the 19th and 20th century. Known more for her affair with artist Auguste Rodin, she was labelled a crazy and tragic case.
What is it about certain people that make you instantly like or dislike them?
CW: rape
When a Polish tourist dies after jumping out of a hospital window in Egypt, officials write her off as a depressive who didn’t want to live anymore. But Magdalena Zuk had no history of mental illness- so why did she apparently have some kind of mental breakdown three days before her death? What happened in Egypt?
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When an entire family is massacred, everyone from the one remaining family member to the police are sure they know who did it: the schizophrenic daughter. But is it really that simple?
Art by Lisa Russo
We’re getting back to basics this week and talking about the four humors!
In 1944, with World War II dominating the headlines, two doctors at the University of Minnesota were determined to discover how to rehabilitate the starving victims of war before the war ended. They recruited 36 men to take part in what would become known as the Minnesota Starvation Experiment, and the study still affects the way those with eating disorders are rehabilitated today.
Diana Spencer became the newest member of the British royal family in 1981, marrying Prince Charles, heir to the throne. The public loved her, and she was dubbed The People’s Princess. But Diana’s marriage was less than perfect; the Prince constantly commented on her weight, causing Diana to become bulimic and suicidal. The Prince didn’t believe her threats were real, making her feel even more desperate. The Queen refused to grant them a divorce so, desperate to get her story out. she met with a journalist who published a book about her marriage and mental health struggles. Soon after its release, more and more people in Britain started to seek treatment for eating disorders they’d previously kept secret; this was called “the Diana Effect.”
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In (late) honor of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, Rachel does an overview of eating disorders, including interviews with fellow podcaster Tawny Platis and actor/personal trainer Ashley Kelley. Both women are in recovery from an eating disorder and graciously tell their stories. If you or someone you love is suffering from an eating disorder, please contact the National Eating Disorders Association by calling (212) 575-6200.
Click here to listen to Tawny’s hilarious history podcast The Dirty Bits, and click here to watch Ashley’s show Peanut Butter and Kelley.
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The conclusion of Dostoevsky’s tale
The third installment of Dostoevsky’s tale.
Dostoevsky’s story continues.
Rachel does a dramatic reading of Dostoevsky’s THE DOUBLE.
In August 2018, the American Psychological Association released The Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Men and Boys, which officially declared traditional masculinity as psychologically harmful to males. Detractors were sure the study was coerced by the #MeToo movement and shouted that men were going to be forced to be feminine. But the document itself says nothing of the sort.
Just before she started a new teaching job in Kensington, Maryland, Hannah Upp disappeared for a second time. The first time was 4 years earlier, days before her second year of teaching in New York City began. Somehow, Hannah emerged from both incidents virtually unscathed. She moved to St Thomas, in the Virgin Islands, to start another teaching job. Everything was going well until the island was hit by back to back hurricanes in September of 2017. When the storms passed, Hannah was gone again.
In 2008, middle school teacher Hannah Upp vanished in New York City. When she was finally found, she had no memory of her time missing, and no idea what caused it. Doctors couldn’t figure it out either.
Photo by Nicole Bengiveno, The New York Times
You’ve probably heard the phrase “mad as a hatter.” But what about hatting made people so mad?
Episode artwork by Brandie Titus
Rachel details her recent experience in an NYC psych ER. Spoiler: it really sucked.
Veronica Lake was one of the most famous actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age, despite the fact that her career only lasted about 11 years. Battling what was probably untreated schizophrenia through bad marriages and other tragedies, Veronica never felt like she belonged in Hollywood.
Rachel does a dramatic reading of Edgar Allen Poe’s THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER.
Acquired from Project Gutenberg.
Stanley McCormick lived a charmed life as a member of a prominent Chicago family until his early thirties. After years of showing signs of mental illness, he was diagnosed with dementia praecox at the age of 32. His wife Katharine, the first woman in America to earn a biology degree, tried to convince his doctors to test him for hormonal imbalances that could be causing his issues. In response, she was barred from being in the same room as Stanley for twenty years as she fought to become his sole guardian in what the papers called “The Freudian Equivalent of the Scopes Trial.”
26 year old Emma Fillipoff disappeared on November 28, 2012. A talented writer and photographer, Emma moved across the country from her friends and family at the age of 25. While initially having a great time, she started to exhibit strange behavior: obsessively rearranging objects, claiming to hear furniture talk, and paranoia that she was being stalked. After being dropped off at a gas station by a stranger, Emma wandered off and was never seen again.
If you have any information pertaining to the Emma Fillipoff case, please contact the Victoria police non-emergency line at 250-995-7654 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
Schizophrenia is described by the DSM 5 as a “severe and chronic” mental illness, characterized by disorder thinking and auditory hallucinations. But there’s more to schizophrenia than just hearing voices.
Happy Thanksgiving, listeners!
Medical science has a dark history with human experimentation. In 1920, a behavioralist and his graduate assistant wanted to see if Pavlov’s theory of conditioning in animals could be applied to humans, too. For the cleanest of slates, they decided to use a 9 month-old baby who became known as Little Albert. Over three months, they conditioned the infant to fear white, furry objects, but were unable to uncondition him before he moved away with his mother. Did Little Albert live a life filled with fear? Who WAS Little Albert?
Mildred Mitchell-Bateman was a woman ahead of her time. A female, black hospital supervisor by the time she was 33, Mitchell-Bateman served not only as the director of West Virginia’s mental health department, but was also chosen by President Jimmy Carter himself to serve on his mental health commission. Working in the field until the age of 87, Dr. Mitchell-Bateman had a hospital named after her to recognize her lifetime of achievements.
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Imagine the crunching of an apple causing you intense rage, or sending you into a panic attack. People with misophonia- literally “hatred of sound”- deal with this on a daily basis. As yet unrecognized by the WHO and APA, misophonia is a little-known disorder that nevertheless affects perhaps 20% of the population.
Nikola Tesla, born in present-day Croatia, is known as one of the founding fathers of electricity. He started to invent things as a young child, while also dealing with possible Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and hallucinations. After moving to America and getting into a lifelong tiff with Thomas Edison, Tesla filed for over 700 patents and lent his electrical talents to changing the entire world.
I got a call a few weeks ago from a friend informing me he’d just inadvertently attended a cult meeting. The Landmark Forum (formerly The Forum, and EST) is marketed as a collection of seminars about leadership, public speech, and relationship skills. Sounds pretty innocent, and even helpful… but according to records, Landmark seminars, which involve verbally violent Attack Therapy, have caused many people- mentally ill and not- to have psychotic episodes, nervous breakdowns, and even to disappear forever. At least three murders have been linked to Landmark members, and it leads one to ask… what is Landmark really?
In the 1600s, two hospitals opened in the southeast of France to house and treat the destitute of the area. As with most of our facilities, they failed at this for a few hundred years before they started to make any headway. But by the mid-1800s, l’Hopital Bicetre and Hopital universitaire Pitie-Salpetriere, operated by the same doctors and superintendents, started to use moral treatment and other modern approaches to treating mentally ill patients.
Dr Franz Mesmer, the namesake of “mesmerisation”, believed that ill health was caused by a buildup of fluid in the human body. He also believed that some people (himself included) had the power to move that fluid out of the way with their mere concentration. Mesmer became incredibly popular in Europe in the late 18th and early 19th century, treating people as famous as Mozart and Marie Antoinette.
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In 1795, James Tilly Matthews was thrown into Bethlem Hospital for accusing the Prime Minister of treason. While there, he started to believe that a terrorist gang was playing with his brain using magnetic waves, which they used to affect his physical and emotional health. Over 10 years, he explained this device, called an Air Loom, to John Haslam, the hospital apothecary. What emerged was the very first book-length record of mental illness- even though some people didn’t even think Matthews was insane to begin with.
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