It's Not Just In Your Head

A qualified social worker and dating & relationships educator, lalalaletmeexplain has spent her career working in the public and voluntary sector helping people to work through, or leave, f**ked up relationships, to change negative patterns of behaviour, and to develop self-love. She left her 15 year career in the public sector in 2018 to bring her professional knowledge to social media and has a loyal following of close to 200k on Instagram.

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lalalaletmeexplain/

Her new book 'Block, Delete, Move On': https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/286177/lalalaletmeexplain.html

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lalalaletmeexplain/id1441978528

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lalalaletmeexplain

Other books mentioned:

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism by Kristen Ghodsee: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1117204/why-women-have-better-sex-under-socialism/9781529110579.html

The Mermaid and the Minotaur by Dorothy Dinnerstein: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667115/the-mermaid-and-the-minotaur-by-dorothy-dinnerstein/

ATTENTION! This is a Boring Dystopia/Obligatory 'don't sue us' message:  This podcast provides numerous different perspectives and criticisms of  the mental health space, however, it should not be considered medical  advice. Please consult your medical professional with regards to any  health decisions or management.

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Ruthless competition, sexual harassment, crushing student debt, parental pressure, loneliness & working class exclusion ... the pursuit of knowledge meets the reality of a Neo-liberal education in the 21st century.

We spoke to four different people about their experiences in the academic world, their expectations and the problems they faced. Despite the opening paragraph above, it's not all bad. From the joys of teaching (and being taught), to using academic respectability to gain access to government funds for social causes, this episode explores their experiences navigating the rigid hierarchies of our education and social/political system.

Thank you to Katherine, Claire, Austin and Alice :)

Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at [email protected]. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access  to episodes, our discord server, and monthly reading/discussion groups.

ATTENTION! This is a Boring Dystopia/Obligatory 'don't sue us' message:  This podcast provides numerous different perspectives and criticisms of  the mental health space, however, it should not be considered medical  advice. Please consult your medical professional with regards to any  health decisions or management.

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Substance abuse councilor Ikoi talks to Carl Erik Fisher, addiction psychiatrist and author of 'The Urge: Our history of addiction'.

Carl draws on his own experience as a clinician, researcher, and alcoholic in recovery to trace the history of addiction that’s troubled us for centuries. His book shows us how addiction has come to be deeply misunderstood and stigmatized in our times, despite being profoundly ordinary across recorded history, and how an honest reckoning with our past successes and failures with addiction can light a better way forward.

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'The Urge: Our history of addiction': https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57925153-the-urge

Carl's podcast, 'Flourishing After Addiction': https://podcast.carlerikfisher.com/

Carl's website: https://www.carlerikfisher.com/

ATTENTION! This is a Boring Dystopia/Obligatory 'don't sue us' message:  This podcast provides numerous different perspectives and criticisms of  the mental health space, however, it should not be considered medical  advice. Please consult your medical professional with regards to any  health decisions or management.

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Cynthia Cruz, author of 'The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class' joins Psychotherapist Harriet Fraad and Substance Abuse Councillor Ikoi to discuss the 'invisibility' of class, the cost of assimilation into the middle class, eating disorders, substance abuse and many other issues.

'To be working-class in a middle-class world is to be a ghost. Excluded, marginalised, and subjected to violence, the working class is also deemed by those in power to not exist. We are left with a choice between assimilation into middle-class values and culture, leaving our working-class origins behind, or total annihilation.

In The Melancholia of Class, Cynthia Cruz analyses how this choice between assimilation or annihilation has played out in the lives of working-class musicians, artists, writers, and filmmakers — including Amy Winehouse, Ian Curtis, Jason Molina, Barbara Loden, and many more — and the resultant Freudian melancholia that ensues when the working-class subject leaves their origins to “become someone,” only to find that they lose themselves in the process.'

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The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-melancholia-of-class-a-manifesto-for-the-working-class/

ATTENTION! This is a Boring Dystopia/Obligatory 'don't sue us' message:  This podcast provides numerous different perspectives and criticisms of  the mental health space, however, it should not be considered medical  advice. Please consult your medical professional with regards to any  health decisions or management.

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Psychotherapist Harriet Fraad and Substance Abuse Councillor Ikoi have a broad ranging discussion with Tyson Yunkaporta, author of 'Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World'.

“Tyson Yunkaporta belongs to the Apalech Clan from Western Cape York and is a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University. He has worked extensively with Aboriginal languages and in Indigenous education, and his research activities include oral histories of natural disasters, language, health and cognition. He is a published poet and exhibited artist who practises traditional wood carving.”

Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at [email protected]. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access  to episodes, our discord server, and monthly reading/discussion groups.

Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World: https://bookshop.org/books/sand-talk-how-indigenous-thinking-can-save-the-world/9780062975645

ATTENTION! This is a Boring Dystopia/Obligatory 'don't sue us' message:  This podcast provides numerous different perspectives and criticisms of  the mental health space, however, it should not be considered medical  advice. Please consult your medical professional with regards to any  health decisions or management.

Become a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to  get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly   reading/discussion groups.