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Werner Herzog's 2005 documentary, Grizzly Man, is a deep dive into the misguided mission of Timothy Treadwell, the man who lived with grizzly bears in the Alaska wilderness for 13 summers until, yep, you guessed it. A bear ate him! We get into the big personalities of both Herzog and Treadwell while also discussing our perceptions of Treadwell's various instabilities and how such a situation was treated 20+ years ago, versus how it could be approached now. This is a dark and weird one, but you know us: we're here for that! 

Sources: 

Ferrier, Amy. Death, Disease, and Amputation: The Disastrous Production of Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo. FarOut. 

Hancock, James. A Divine Marriage Made in Hell: Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski. Wrong Reel. 

IMDB. Grizzly Man. 

Tobias, Scott. The Human Nature of Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man. The Dissolve. 

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We are thrilled to have our #1 listener, Danny, as a guest for this episode as we discuss 2024's body horror extravaganza, "The Substance." Please excuse the choppy bits as we had some technical issues while recording. Also, this episode marks two years of our podcast! We did it and we are still here! Thanks for listening and supporting us. 

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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. 

Oh the horrors of perfectionism. Megan and Jess have a lot to talk about with this one! Megan keeps saying the word NASTY but she doesn't mean fun nasty, more like ballerina feet nasty. Join us as we discuss 2010's Black Swan, Darren Aranofsky's psychological drama that we definitely think is also a horror movie. Welcome to spooky season! 

Sources: 

• ABC News. Black Swan: Psychiatrists Diagnose Ballerina's Descent. 
• Febos, Melissa. The Animal Within the Animal. Astra Magazine. 
• National Institute of Health. Understanding Psychosis. 
• Silverii, GA et all. Eating psychopathology in ballet dancers: a meta-analysis of observational studies. Eatign and Weight Disorders. 
• How much do ballet dancers make? More Than Dancers website. 

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Edited by the lovely Nōn Wels (@youmeempathy). Hire Nōn for your podcast at nonwels.com. 

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. 

It's been way too serious up in here so let's have a break with our favorite stoners, the Broad City dudes. This week we get into Seasonal Affective Disorder and midlife crises, among other things, all inspired by Abbi and Ilana. Also, Ru-Paul! Please enjoy the comedy break before we get back into the dark and sad stuff. Because you know we will. 

Sources:

• IMDB. Abbi's Mom.
• UCHealth. The facts – and misconceptions – about antidepressant medications.
• Newby, J. Do Happy Lights Impact Mental Health?
• Refinery29. Broad City Season 4, Episode 5 Recap: "Abbi's Mom"
• The Michigan Daily. What ‘Broad City’ gets right about depression.
• Bustle. I Figured Out Where To Buy All 19 Sex Toys That Appear In ‘Broad City’

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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.

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].

Edited by the lovely Nōn Wels (@youmeempathy). Hire Nōn for your podcast at nonwels.com. 

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. 

Well here we are. In Idaho, or Seattle, or Portland, or perhaps a Shakespearean scene with Keanu Reeves? This week we get into the Gus Van Sant's 1991 film "My Own Private Idaho." Yes, it's weird and artsy! And it's important in its depictions of queerness in the 1990s, vulnerabilities and risks faced by sex workers, and some interesting details about narcolepsy and its effects on mental health. Join us as we journey down this road that never ends! 

Sources: 

• IMDB- My Own Private Idaho. 
• Fordyce, K. Conditions You May Have Along with Narcolepsy. WebMD. 
• Kynn, J. et al. Structural vulnerabilities and over-criminalization of LGBT+ youth in the California justice system. Children and Youth Services Review. Vol 160, May 2024. 
• Mayo Clinic. Narcolepsy: Overview.
• Taubin, Amy. My Own Private Idaho: Private Places. The Criterion Collection. 

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Edited by the lovely Nōn Wels (@youmeempathy). Hire Nōn for your podcast at nonwels.com. 

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. 

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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Edited by the lovely Nōn Wels (@youmeempathy). Hire Nōn for your podcast at nonwels.com. 

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. 

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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Edited by the lovely Nōn Wels (@youmeempathy). Hire Nōn for your podcast at nonwels.com. 

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. 

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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Edited by the lovely Nōn Wels (@youmeempathy). Hire Nōn for your podcast at nonwels.com. 

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. 

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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Edited by the lovely Nōn Wels (@youmeempathy). Hire Nōn for your podcast at nonwels.com. 

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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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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].

Edited by the lovely Nōn Wels (@youmeempathy). Hire Nōn for your podcast at nonwels.com. 

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.