Body dysmorphia, disordered eating, and embodiment
Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories
12/02/21
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Body dysmorphia is the disorder of imagined ugliness, a type of delusional OCD that can lead to severe depression, eating disorders, compulsive body alterations, and suicidality. As a young child, Georgina was a "cute kid", not particularly self-conscious, and able to move through her world without undue pain. With the onset of adolescence, however, her self-image changed completely-- she suddenly found her face horribly ugly, she felt helpless and hopeless, and she frantically tried to find ways to cope.
Here Georgina shares her story of recovery from body dysmorphia and an eating disorder, a long and winding path from Health and Wellness Instagram fame while compulsively exercising and restricting to the hard work of showing up in therapy to rediscovering her non-judgmental inner child during a psilocybin journey. Georgina and Dr. H also explore orthorexia, atypical anorexia, intuitive eating, and the concept of healing through embodiment.
Georgina Berbari is a writer and photographer living in NYC
https://www.georginaberbari.com
Dr. Hillary McBride's new book "The Wisdom of Your Body"
https://hillarylmcbride.com/the-wisdom-of-your-body/
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Previous Episode
Hold on to memories-- The aftermath of suicide with Doug Friedman
November 18, 2021
•61m
Doug Friedman, the co-host and producer of the podcast Your Mental Breakdown, contacted Craig last spring and said that he was ready and wanting to tell his abyss story-- that of his wife’s death and his journey of recovery thereafter. Doug has mentioned a number of times on his podcast that his wife passed away the same week in 2018 that he was diagnosed with MS... but the details of his loss are actually much more profound and heartbreaking. That’s because Doug’s beloved wife Kim, who was also a psychotherapist, died by suicide when her bipolar disorder overtook her.
After Kim’s death, Doug plunged into a process of painful reckoning that finally culminated in a move to the Colorado mountains to plumb his emotional depths through songwriting and music. The result of his inner process, of his working through the paralyzing grief and the overwhelming emotions... is the music you will hear throughout this story.
Doug Friedman
https://www.clearmindfullheart.com
Your Mental Breakdown podcast
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Next Episode
Conversation with an underground psilocybin therapist
December 16, 2021
•81m
As we are now coming to realize the impressive potential of psychedelics to treat trauma and depression, we also have to face the fact that they are still illegal. This reality has led to an explosion of underground therapy, a Wild West where anyone can set up shop as a shaman or therapist or healer and the buyer must beware.
Some people are finding healing in the underground psychedelic world, while others are encountering ethically-challenged and/or naive underground practitioners who are causing more harm than good. Here Dr. H sits down with Sarah, an underground therapist who is doing this important work in a mindful and ethical way.
Sarah has been doing underground psilocybin work for seven years and comes from a place of her own severe childhood trauma, a journey where she found healing with psilocybin and was then compelled to offer this path to others. Sarah and Dr. H explore whom she works with and why, how she thinks about psilocybin in the therapeutic toolkit, how other underground therapists get themselves into trouble, and finally she offers wisdom about how one might enter into underground therapy in a thoughtful way.
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