Only Slightly Dead Inside

When you have depression and anxiety, it's like there are tiny conspiracy theorists living in your brain, wearing tinfoil hats and giving you mountains of evidence to prove you're the worst.

This week, we tackle that: Why are we so mean to ourselves? Why do we feel like happiness has to be earned? Are the tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorists right? Only way to find out is to listen.

If you are in crisis, or feel like you might be a danger to yourself or someone else, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255, or text the Crisis Text Line at 741-741. Someone is always there to hear you, and you are worth hearing.

Nikka and Julienne discuss the worst vortex: where anxiety and depression come together in a terrible swirl of mayhem and destruction. Also: Our least favorite words, Nikka as the grammar police, and why it's important to take two minutes for yourself (even if you don't have a gnat in your eye).

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If you are in crisis, or feel like you might be a danger to yourself or someone else, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255, or text the Crisis Text Line at 741-741. Someone is always there to hear you, and you are worth hearing.

This week, Julienne and Nikka tackle medication: How they found meds that worked for them, what the process was like, and how finding the right balance is imperfect, often frustrating, and ever-evolving - JUST LIKE BEING HUMAN!

If you are in crisis, or feel like you might be a danger to yourself or someone else, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255, or text the Crisis Text Line at 741-741. Someone is always there to hear you, and you are worth hearing.

Depression and anxiety: What do they look like? Do they look like anything? Let's find out!

Julienne and Nikka talk about the ways that depression and anxiety manifest themselves in everyday life, discuss  some of their favorite depictions of depression and anxiety in the media, and how sometimes it's hard to see the forest for the trees when your brain is doing a lot of extra work.

If you are in crisis, or feel like you might be a danger to yourself or someone else, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255, or text the Crisis Text Line at 741-741. Someone is always there to hear you, and you are worth hearing.

Julienne and Nikka talk about the long and winding road to finding a good therapist, why it's important to talk about going to therapy, and how therapy is for everyone - no really - EVERYONE.

if you are in crisis, please reach out to one of these resources

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255

Welcome! This is Only Slightly Dead Inside, a podcast putting the fun in functional depression.

Meet Julienne and Nikka, learn a little more about them, and find out why it's important to be honest about living with depression and anxiety.