I'M TRIGGERED!

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. 

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. 

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

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. 

"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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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].

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. 

In this week's episode we host our first guest, Nōn Wels @feelyhuman, whose Feely Cards will be released on September 19 (pre-order here). We also discuss the 2022 film Everything Everywhere All At Once. Exploring themes of intergenerational trauma, suicidality, multiversal travel, and more, this film swept the Oscars while expanding our minds in such incredible and unexpected ways. From hot dog fingers to Racacoonie, there's something for everyone. Although it can be expected that we will discuss triggers on this podcast, we discuss the topic of suicidality rather in depth in this episode so please do what you need to do to take good care of your wonderful self. 

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. 

A nostalgia film about friendship, dead bodies, and leeches, noooo! 

Yep, it's Stand by Me, the film with all those baby-faced actors. In this episode, we discuss how parenting can impact mental health and also how tromping through the woods to find a dead body could have some effects, too. We also get into summertime stuff and how we really feel about music from the 50s. 

Sources: 

• Stand By Me, IMDB
• Cooper, Megan. "What Life in a 1950s Family Was Really Like." Love to Know. Link. 
• Keyes et al. "The Burden of Loss: Unexpected death of a loved one and psychiatric disorders across the life course in a national study." American Journal of Psychiatry. Link. 
• "Harsh discipline increases risk of children developing lasting mental health problems." University of Cambridge. 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].

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. 

With this most recent barrage of unprecedented events, we decided to take a short break from discussing heavy topics. Welcome to our first ever Feel Good Episode, where we veer from our usual structure to simply share some things we enjoy. We chat about two films from 2001: Josie and the Pussycats and Spirited Away. 

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. 

Do you ever hate your job so much that you wish you could be hypnotized out of feeling your daily misery? And are you tired of talking about your flair? Welcome to our episode about Office Space (1999), the oft-quoted exploration of corporate ennui and rebellion. Jess and Megan discuss what holds up (pretty much everything), the impact of meaningless overwork on mental health, the need for neurodivergents to have a piece of cake, and more.  


Sources: 

• "Office Space" IMDB. Link.  
• Nagoski, E. and Nagoski, A. Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle. Macmillan 2020. Link. 
• "The State of Vulnerable Workers 2022: Unsafe and Disrespected." Empower Work. Link. 
• "Office Space Turns 20: The Way the Film Changed How We Work." BBC. Link. 
• "Being Unhappy at Work Can Have Long Term Health Effects." Flexjobs. Link. 
• "It's Not You: Your Job is Responsible for Making Your Feel Burned Out." Fast Company. Link. 
• "Feeling Emotional Exhausted?" Ted.com. Link.
• "The Late 90s Dot Come Bubble." Goldman Sachs. 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].

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. 

Jess and Megan discuss the documentary Your Fat Friend (2023), beautifully directed by Jeanie Finlay, about blogger, writer, podcaster, and activist Aubrey Gordon. We discuss the mental health effects of anti-fatness and also how not to be a dick.

Watch Your Fat Friend Here.

Sources: 

• "Your Fat Friend." IMDB. Link.  
• "'I'm Big in a Lot of Ways': Activist Aubrey Gordon on reclaiming fatness in a new film about her life." The Guardian. Link.
• "The Burden of Weight Stigma." American Psychological Association. Link. 
• "Challenging Weight Bias in the Doctor's Office- and in your own thoughts." Mayo Clinic. 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].

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.