Mind and Seek

Theresa's getting dizzy, and the only prescription, is more cowbell… or more IVIG, we're not sure. We're not doctors.

Brandon and Theresa talk about how perspective has been such a key factor in helping them heal. Allowing yourself to be open to a different way of looking at a problem or situation can sometimes make room for new solutions and a lot of healing. Also All Inclusive resorts are dangerous.

To choose vulnerability is to choose courage, connection and self expression. This is exactly what Theresa did when she started sharing the details of her recovery on social media. Brandon and Theresa sit down to talk about the role vulnerability has played in easing the isolation brought on by Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis.

Theresa talks through the anniversary of her illness, and how it effects the holidays as a whole. A complicated emotional relationship with a time many expect you to be "cheerful" can be an extra special form of anxiety.

Bills! We all know that feeling in the pit of our stomach when you get a bill in the mail. And it can feel even worse when you can't understand how you're getting billed in the first place. Here are some tips that will hopefully help you feel a little less overwhelmed by it all.

Last week's episode we raged against the "professionals" who really seemed to be doing more harm than good. This week we talk about the ones that made this painful journey just a little bit more bearable. Their kindness really did go a long way.

It's a scary thing when the people who are supposed to take care of you end up being...the worst. Brandon and Theresa laugh about various encounters they had with medical "Professionals" who were anything but. Terrifying, then. But pretty funny now.

A continual thread from the last episode, Brandon and Theresa dive deeper into Brandon's perspective of the night of Theresa's psyche ward admission, his lone experience with her hospital stay, and what it was like to feel the crippling distance between them when she came home.

Sometimes the real battle starts when you leave the hospital. Brandon and Theresa talk about how difficult it can be to reconnect during the recovery, and what that psychological divide looks like between a survivor and a caregiver.

This episode gets very vulnerable very fast as Theresa, while working through a bout of depression, gives us a look into the "void of emotion" that may be just as terrifying as any other part of the illness/recovery process.