Welcome back to Analyze Scripts, where a psychiatrist and a therapist analyze what Hollywood gets right and wrong about mental health. Today, we are releasing a short bonus episode where Dr. Furey discusses her recent THRILLING experience as a guest on Bitch Sesh/Garbage Sesh. Discussing mental healths themes as depicted in the "Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" season finale with her favorite housewive scholars, Casey Rose Wilson and Danielle Schneider, was a dream! We hope you enjoy!

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[00:10] Dr. Katrina Furey: Hi, I'm Dr. Katrina Fieri, a psychiatrist. And I'm Portia Pendleton, a licensed clinical social worker. And this is analyze scripts, a podcast where two shrinks analyze the depiction of mental health in movies and tv shows. Our hope is that you learn some legit info about mental health while feeling like you're chatting with your girlfriends.

[00:28] Portia Pendleton, LCSW: There is so much misinformation out there.

[00:30] Dr. Katrina Furey: And it drives us nuts. And if someday we pay off our student loans or land a sponsorship, like with a lay flat airline or a major beauty brand, even better. So sit back, relax, grab some popcorn.

[00:42] Portia Pendleton, LCSW: And your DSM five, and enjoy. Portia, you will not even believe what I got to do this week. I mean, you will because I've already told you about it, but I don't know details. I know. I've been waiting and waiting to share them with you today. Okay, so, as you know, I have been a scholar of the Real Housewives of everywhere as long as I've been a scholar of medicine, like, legit. I looked up, when did the Real Housewives franchise premiere? And it was 2006, the same year I entered medical school. So it's the same. I've been in parallel studying both. And my favorite podcast in the world is called ***** Sesh, and it's hosted by Casey Wilson and Danielle Schneider, who are like. Like Hollywood actresses. Writers like. Casey wrote bride wars. She was on SNL. Danielle wrote a bunch of different things. She was in stepbrothers. She was the assistant who saw them back to Seth Rogen for that job interview she's written for the Oscars. They had their own real housewives parody show on Hulu, so they're, like, legit. And last week, I know you don't watch the housewives or broadcasting out. You totally are. Like, you really are, because it's so good. And I feel like, honestly, I can say without a shadow of a doubt, I have learned so much about personality disorders, personality development. I also remember, literally, on my first inpatient psychiatry rotation, we were having a family meeting, and it was with a gentleman and his wife, who now I realize further out in my training, had very histrionic traits. We were trying to navigate a family meeting with them, and I literally, the night before, had seen an episode of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills with a couple's therapist and just mimicked what he was doing because I didn't know what to do. And I remember my chief resident being like, wow, that was really great how you mirrored it back to them, and he's like, how'd you know that. And I was like, it's just natural. Yeah. I don't know. I'm so good at this. But, like, legit. That's where I got it anyway. And we've seen all sorts of really bad therapy on these shows. Yeah. But long story short, there was an explosive finale of the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City last. Just like, I was just like, oh, my God. Oh, my God. Just so energized by it, as was the rest of the world. Jennifer Lawrence. Yes, exactly. I just had this know. I was just like, you know what? I'm going to go for it. I'm just going to email them, and I'm going to be, hey, like, I'm a psychiatrist. I trained at Yale. I know what I'm talking about. I'm dying to analyze this with you guys because they're really open about their own mental health in a really positive way. Like, they talk about their therapists and their psychiatrists really positively, which as a shrink, I appreciate. And they got back to me and they were like, okay, do you want to come on? And I was like, yeah, are you kidding? I didn't think you'd actually get back to me. It was so wild, portia. So anyway, so I joined them, and we talked about mental health stuff relating to the housewives. It was so cool. So let me ask you, is Salt Lake a good. Because to my limited knowledge, they haven't been around as long as four seasons, and you should. It's a good way to get into it. Okay. It's not like New York, where you'd have 20 years. Right? You have to watch. Like, this is pretty new, and it's explosive because one of them is now in prison, federal prison for six years for defrauding the elderly or this stuff. They caught it on camera. They didn't mean to. When the FBI came and raided their sprinter van, as they're all trying to go on a cast trip to look for her, you see all this unfold. So it's wild. It's wild. And then you see her profess her innocence and how all of them believe her, and then she pleads guilty. And as a mental health person, your wheels are turning, right? And all this stuff we talk about in our podcast, in terms of analyzing, is this person a narcissist? Are they a sociopath? What's the difference? It was just such a parallel to the finale. And so it was just so cool to talk to them for me personally, super selfishly, because I love them. You're a patreon member right? I'm what they call a bougie *****. I pay my, like, $12 a month, and I love that. They are the highlight of my week. I save it to listen to when I'm jogging and I'm giggling to myself. And it's such a good podcast because it's funny. I love the content. Their guests are amazing. But then it also has moments of being really sweet and poignant and moving. I just love that. And I think one thing that was so cool is that they were just as nice and warm and humble as they seem. And I feel like you don't always get that right sometimes they always say, don't meet someone you really want to meet because they could let you down. Right. And so I was kind of waiting for that, and it didn't happen. We sign onto the zoom, and I'm like, I can't believe I'm in this zoom. Of course. I'm so neurotic. I showed you, I had, like, four pages. You wrote so many notes. But you're also, like, a prepared queen who does research, and that's why you know what you're doing. I know. I think I probably drove the producer crazy because I was like, let me know what you want me to prepare. Do they have any specific questions? Otherwise, here's what I got, and I showed it to her. They were probably like, wow. But I wanted to be prepared. I wanted to really know what I was talking about. And then I feel like it totally kicks up my own imposter syndrome, where then you're like, maybe I don't really know what I'm talking. We log into the zoom. They let me in, and they introduce themselves. Hi, I'm Casey. Hi, I'm Danielle. And I was know I was, uh, I am fully aware, but that's just nice. I like that. That's nice. And it was a great conversation. It was really cool to see how does, like, I think we're a legit podcast, but, you know, one with membership ears and a producer, multiple producers, and they do live shows. They've been doing it for eight years. How do you do the tech? What's your tech set up as we're trying to figure it out ourselves? That was cool. And mostly, it was just so cool to talk about something I'm passionate about. Two things I'm so passionate about with these women I think are so funny. And that's your intuition, you know what I mean? That's your two worlds colliding. It was like, I don't know how I feel like it's all downhill from here in terms of 2024. We just started at the top. It's like the opposite of that Drake song. Yeah, there's nowhere else to go down. But, no, I hope that people enjoy it. I hope that we get some listeners from it who might be interested. I tried really hard to be like, yeah, we kind of talk like this, but more freely on our own podcast. They were so nice in terms of mentioning it and saying they were going to listen to it. And then I tried to plug us, and I said, like, hey, if you ever start your own podcast network, let us know if you're interested. We're here, and that's true. Producer Kate or producer Renee, if you're just. It was so cool. It was so. I'm. I'm so I'll. I'm obviously going to listen to the not. Well, I don't know if I can. If it's, like, a member, but you can share it with me. I want to hear that one episode. Yeah, well, I guess I'd pay for it because I'm a woman who supports other women. Yeah, we are women supporting women, as they say on the housewives, but usually they're not actually women supporting women. But we really. So thanks for having Katrina on. This is our life dream. It was so cool. It's just, like, such a cool, funny thing that I feel like only I would love so much. It's just such a funny thing, so unique to me. That was just like, yeah, I don't know. It's just, like, the coolest. I was talking to my mom when I was driving home, and I was like, it was so fun, and it was so cool to just be so present in such a fun moment. Right? Like, to just soak it up. So thank you to ***** Sesh for having me on. I took pictures of it on my calendar. I wrote it down in my paper calendar, so I have it for the whole year. It's just, like, so fun. It's so cool. That's a highlight. That's a highlight. That's a highlight for me, for sure. All right, well, thanks for sharing your story. I want to post this, so we got to keep it a little bit short, but I know we could literally talk forever about it because it's so cool. Oh, my God. And we'll talk about it maybe again. So listen to our other episodes. Yeah. Find us on Instagram and Ali scripts, podcasts on TikTok and YouTube. And welcome if you're coming over from ***** Sesh. We're all welcome here. We are a welcoming community. All right, thanks. Bye bye. Okay, it was.

[10:39] Dr. Katrina Furey: This podcast and its contents are a copyright of analyzed scripts, all rights reserved. Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited. Unless you want to share it with your friends and rate, review and subscribe, that's fine. All stories and characters discussed are fictional in nature. No identification with actual persons, living or deceased places, buildings, or products is intended or should be inferred. This podcast is for entertainment purposes only. The podcast and its contents do not constitute professional mental health or medical advice. Listeners might consider consulting a mental health provider if they need assistance with any mental health problems or concerns. As always, please call 911 or go directly to your nearest emergency room for any psychiatric emergencies. Thanks for listening and see you next time.

[11:39] Portia Pendleton, LCSW: Our channel. You don't close.

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