<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2448890/open_sms">Send us questions here!</a>"I Want To Rip My Skin Off": Sensory Hell and SexWhat does sex feel like when sensory input is overwhelming or painful? In this episode of Brain Trash, we explore the intense (and often unspoken) connection between sensory processing and intimacy for autistic and neurodivergent individuals.We talk about touch aversion, masturbation as self-discovery, aftercare, scripting your needs, and why hookup culture often fails neurodivergent bodies.This one’s raw, honest, and validating as hell.🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.Socials: Facebook: Paperflower Psychiatry Instagram&Threads: @paperflowerpsychiatry Tiktok: @dr.mariaingalla Websites: www.paperflowerpsychiatry.com www.paperflowerinstitute.com www.courses.paperflowerinstitute.com

Send us questions here! "I Want To Rip My Skin Off": Sensory Hell and Sex What does sex feel like when sensory input is overwhelming or painful? In this episode of Brain Trash, we explore the intense (and often unspoken) connection between sensory processing and intimacy for autistic and neurodivergent individuals. We talk about touch aversion, masturbation as self-discovery, aftercare, scripting your needs, and why hookup culture often fails neurodivergent bodies. This one’s raw, honest, and validating as hell. 🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. Socials: Facebook: Paperflower Psychiatry Instagram&Threads: @paperflowerpsychiatry Tiktok: @dr.mariaingalla Websites: www.paperflowerpsychiatry.com www.paperflowerinstitute.com www.courses.paperflowerinstitute.com

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“I Want to Rip My Skin Off”: Sensory Hell and Sex

Welcome to Brain Trash, where we rip off the sugar-coated filter and talk about the raw, messy, and frustrating realities of psychiatry. Hosted by psychiatric nurse practitioners who know the system inside and out, this podcast is for clinicians tired of textbook psychiatry BS and everyday people trying to make sense of their mental health. 💊 Overdiagnosis. Self-diagnosis. Medications that help. Medications that ruin lives. The DSM. The WTFs of mental health. If you’ve ever side-eyed a diagnosis, questioned your meds, or felt like the system was failing you—you're not alone.No gatekeeping. No corporate-sanitized psychiatry. Just honest, unfiltered conversations about neurodivergence, trauma, the cracks in the system, and what we need to do differently. 🔥 If you’ve ever felt dismissed by a mental health provider or questioned the way we do this—hit subscribe. Let’s rethink psychiatry together. 🎙️ Listen now &amp; join the conversation: 🌍 Podcast: https://braintrash.buzzsprout.com/ 🧠 Mental health care: https://www.paperflowerpsychiatry.com/ 📚 Education for providers &amp; patients: https://www.paperflowerinstitute.com/ 📸 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paperflowerpsychiatry 🎥 YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@paperflowerinstitute♪ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.mariaingalla

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Welcome to Brain Trash, where we rip off the sugar-coated filter and talk about the raw, messy, and frustrating realities of psychiatry. Hosted by psychiatric nurse practitioners who know the system inside and out, this podcast is for clinicians tired of textbook psychiatry BS and everyday people trying to make sense of their mental health. 💊 Overdiagnosis. Self-diagnosis. Medications that help. Medications that ruin lives. The DSM. The WTFs of mental health. If you’ve ever side-eyed a diagnosis, questioned your meds, or felt like the system was failing you—you're not alone. No gatekeeping. No corporate-sanitized psychiatry. Just honest, unfiltered conversations about neurodivergence, trauma, the cracks in the system, and what we need to do differently. 🔥 If you’ve ever felt dismissed by a mental health provider or questioned the way we do this—hit subscribe. Let’s rethink psychiatry together. 🎙️ Listen now & join the conversation: 🌍 Podcast: https://braintrash.buzzsprout.com/ 🧠 Mental health care: https://www.paperflowerpsychiatry.com/ 📚 Education for providers & patients: https://www.paperflowerinstitute.com/ 📸 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paperflowerpsychiatry 🎥 YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@paperflowerinstitute ♪ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.mariaingalla

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