We're back after a lil summer break! What a thrill to have author Kelly Sundburg join us to talk about about her essay collection The Answer is In the Wound: Trauma, Rage, and Alchemy, out on Aug 26 with Grove Atlantic. Kelly hangs out to talk with us about Season 4, Episode 7 of The Bear, simply entitled "Bears." A fitting bookend to the previously covered episode "Fishes," "Bears" is all sweetness and repair after the trauma we all suffered from Fishes. We discuss Richy's character arc and our collective attraction to goblin line cooks, as well as mental health topics of family estrangement and repair. 

Sources:

• IMDB - Bears. Link.
• Baker, Katie. Old, New, Borrowed, and Blue: The Very Special Wedding Episode of ‘The Bear.’ Link.
• Ruiz, Rebecca. Haunted no more: Season 4 of 'The Bear' confronts its ghosts. Link.
• Loeppky, John. Estrangement Hurts, But Chosen Family Can Help. Link.
• Streep, Peg. No, Parent-Child Estrangement Isn't Just a Fad. Link.

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2013's Short Term 12 is not only an indie movie gem, it's also impressively accurate in its depiction of what it's like to work in the foster care system and in residential treatment. How do people deal with their own trauma histories when working stressful jobs like this? What's it like chasing kids around on a daily basis? What really happens in the foster care system? We get into this and more, and don't worry-- we don't talk about bodily fluids that much, though we certainly could! This one is a tear jerker, the triggers are also glimmers, and we really can't say enough good things about this fantastic film. 

Sources: 

• IMDB - Short Term 12. Link. 
• Rotten Tomatoes - Short Term 12. Link. 
• Blackshere, Ryann. The Humanity of Short Term 12. The Imprint. Link. 
• Bond, Tom. My Streaming Gem- Why You Should Watch Short Term 12. The Guardian. Link. 
• Edelstein, David. Short Term 12 is the Most Wrenching Drama I've Seen this Year. Vulture. Link. 

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Let's get complaining! With a distinct lack of accurate and helpful information on eating disorders and their respective treatments, the 2017 film "To the Bone" manages to further add to stereotypes and misconceptions. As your loyal hosts, we will endure our intense annoyance to tell you all about this crap so you don't have to deal with it. Despite Keanu's lovely presence, this movie earns a couple of middle fingers from us, but we enjoyed talking about it! We get into realities of EDs, what treatment is really like, and why we want to kick this film off of Netflix's menu forever and ever. Listeners, be mindful about watching this film because of its extremely triggering ED-related content. 

Sources: 

• IMDB - To the Bone . Link. 
• Bassett, Lucy & Ewart, Maya. Discrepancies between media portrayals and actual demographics of eating disorders in TV and film: implications of representation. Journal of Eating Disorders. Link.  
• Freeman, Hadley. To the Bone confirms there are (almost) no good movies about anorexia. The Guardian.  Link.  
• Bradshaw, Peter. To the Bone review – Netflix's anorexia tale is uninsightful, insipid and insulting. The Guardian. Link. 
• King, Elizabeth. Are Movies About Eating Disorders Fundamentally Uncinematic? Pacific Standard.  Link.  

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Hello Danny! 

We emerge from our hibernation cave to bring you the first media breakdown episode of season two, and it better be perfect because we did 158 takes. We cannot discuss The Shining without acknowledging Tony, the little boy who lives in all of our mouths, or how Alcohol Use Disorder may masquerade as ghostie madness. Join us as we discuss these topics and more, and keep those horrifying twins far, far away. 

Sources: 

IMBD The Shining 

Why We Enjoy Horror: Science Explains. 

The Role of Imaginary Companions in Only Children: A Qualitative Study 

Dissociation and PTSD 

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Welcome to Season 2! We are discombulated! We are weary! We are ready to talk about stuff even if it's not pretty! In today's episode we discuss how we are dealing with HUGE life changes (baby! divorce!) and what we've been reading and watching during our podcasting hiatus. We are glad to be back and can't wait to share more episodes with you all. 

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It's the final episode of our first season, and it's a spooky one. Before we send Jess off with good wishes for sweet times with the Hobbit Baby, we must talk about ghosties, a sad little kid, and the very amazing Toni Collete in a very good wig! Yes, it's 1999's twisty film from the master of twisties himself, M. Night Shyamalam's The Sixth Sense. So, get some popcorn and some fun sized candies and get ready for some real talk about therapist boundaries, how belief in the afterlife could affect therapy, and what was going on with those accents.  

Correction: after recording, we realized our error that Forrest Gump came out in 1994 and not in 1999. 

Y'all. We are so grateful to our loyal listeners. This year has been a blast and, after a short hiatus, we will be back for season two. Thank you, thank you, thank you. You are all glimmers! 

Sources: 

• The Sixth Sense, IMDB. 
• Packer, Sharon, MD. Making Sense of The Sixth Sense--So Many Years Later. Psychiatric Times. 
• Pleinas, Miyako. The Sixth Sense Cast Thought They Were Making a Different Kind of Film. Slashfilm. 
• The Sixth Sense. What Went Wrong Podcast. 

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Disclaimer: The content of this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your mental health professional or other qualified health provider with any questions about your situations and/ or conditions.

Australian horror film The Babadook delighted audiences with its clever script, gruesome scenes, and that delightfully creepy character. In this episode, we discuss the challenges of widowhood and the ongoing effects of grief. And, in a show dedicated to triggers, Jess and Megan find a scene in this film so triggering that they can barely talk about it.  Buckle up for the Babadook! 

Sources:

• Dederer, Claire. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma. Vintage Publishers, 2023.
• Gobbel, Robyn. Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2023.
• Hawbaker, L.A. "The Black Rose in the Garden: A Second Look at The Babadook." Bright Lights Film Journal. Jan 11, 2021. https://brightlightsfilm.com/the-black-rose-in-the-garden-a-second-look-at-the-babadook/
• Jacobsen, Pamela. "Eye on Fiction: The Babadook and Maternal Depression." The British Psychological Society. Oct 12, 2016.  https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/eye-fiction-babadook-and-maternal-depression
• "Mental Illness and The Babadook." The Artifice. https://the-artifice.com/the-babadook-mental-illness/
• Williams, Christian. "Parenting While Grieving: The Experience of Widows with Young Children." Mental Health and Human Resilience International Journal. Vol 1, Issue 1. Apr 3, 2023. https://medwinpublishers.com/MHRIJ/parenting-while-grieving-the-experience-of-widows-with-young-children.pdf

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"The Body" is a truly devastating episode of the well-loved series Buffy the Vampire Slayer in which Buffy discovers her mom's body and begins the grieving process in earnest. We discuss the important history of the show, including unfortunate but important details about the show's creator, and why this particular episode continutes to be regarded as a stellar depiction of grief, 90s fashion and all. 

Sources: 

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, IMDB. 
• Gilbert, Sophie. ‘The Body’ and the Radical Empathy of Buffy’s Best Episode. The Atlantic.
• Coping with Grief After a Sudden Death. Johns Hopkins University. 
• Coping with Tragedy: A Guide to Dealing with Shock and Grief. State of Maryland.  
• Chodron, Pema. When Things Fall Apart. Shambhala, 2016.
• Devine, Megan. It's Okay that You're Not Okay. Sounds True, 2017. 

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The 1997 film, Good Will Hunting, garnered nine Oscar noms with its star-studded cast and poignant themes of love, class, and mental health. But what about the accents, the attachment disorder, and the Swedish guy that must know everything about a therapy session? And what about ALLLLL that self-disclosure? We talk these topics and more in this episode about one of the most well-known movies about what can take place within the therapy room. 

Sources:

• Good Will Hunting, IMDB.  
• Unveiling the Therapeutic Journey of Good Will Hunting. Psychology Today. 
• Good Will Hunting. Teach with Movies. 
• What is Good Therapy? Some Reflections on Good Will Hunting. Glyniss Sherwood MEd. 
• Men's Mental Health: 40% of Men Won't Talk to Anyone About Their Mental Health. Priory. 
• The Therapeutic Alliance: The Fundamental Element of Psychotherapy. Focus Psychiatry. 
• Counselor Self-Disclosure: Encouragment or Impediment to Client Growth? American Counseling Association. 

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The 2022 sci-fi horror flick M3GAN is a fun watch and we had blast talking about it. We get into kid trauma, therapy home visits, and some implications of AI which may include a murderous doll. 

Sources: 

• M3GAN, IMDB. Link. 
• AI's climate impact goes beyond emissions. Scientific American. Link. 
• Why AI isn't a magic bullet for mental health. Berkeley Public Health. Link. 

Thank you for listening! Please like, rate, and review us wherever you listen to your podcasts. Find us on social media @imtriggeredpod or send us an email with questions or reqests [email protected].

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