Steering into the hard stuff-- A father and husband's story
Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories | Psychotherapy, Trauma, and Psychedelics
11/10/20
•43m
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Dr. H sits down with his friend Brian, who watched his daughter, and then his wife, plunge into the depressive abyss. This is the journey of a father and husband, of a "we can fix this" engineer trying to find a path through the ambiguity and uncertainty of psychiatric treatment.
This is the second in an intermittent series of family members describing their journey of trying to support their loved ones through their darkest times.
Grief and loss raft trips (mentioned by Brian)
https://www.pathfindersforyou.org
Dr. H/Back from the Abyss
https://www.craigheacockmd.com
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Touching the edges of life-- Healing from divorce
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•49m
In this third of an intermittent series about therapists in the abyss, Dr. H sits down with his colleague Dr. Elena Estanol, a Colorado-based psychologist, to explore Elena's "fourth dark night of the soul". Her story serves as a springboard for exploring how to cope with the randomness of life, learning to go inward to heal relational wounds, differentiating pain vs suffering, and finding peace with who shows up for us and who doesn't.
Dr. Elena Estanol
https://www.synapsewellness.com/
Dr. H and BFTA
https://www.craigheacockmd.com
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•63m
The podcast Psychedelics Today recently released a two part interview with Will Hall, an author, podcaster, therapist, and voice of the anti-psychiatry community. This BFTA episode came about after Dr. H reached out to the hosts of PT and asked for a counterpoint to Will's complete dismissal of psychiatry as a meaningful part of the mental health treatment community.
Here Dr. H presents a more nuanced, balanced, and hopeful perspective, one that recognizes the harm that psychiatrists and other physicians have caused in the past and continue to cause today, while also asking that we try to lean into the positive, to identify and celebrate what works for people, to reject the black/white thinking that calls for tearing down systems which are, by their very nature, messy and imperfect, just as we humans are messy and imperfect.
Psychedelics Today
https://psychedelicstoday.com
Dr. H and BFTA
https://www.craigheacockmd.com
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