On episode 53 host Jason Schreurs and Surfbort singer Dani Miller discuss suicidal ideation and what we do to keep those thoughts at bay. Dani is candid about her struggles since she was a teen and the drug abuse that fuelled her bipolar episodes and suicidal thoughts.

http://surfbort.bandcamp.com

Featured song clips:

Surfbort - “FML” from Keep on Truckin’ (Inner Freak Records, 2021)

Surfbort - “Open Your Eyes” from Keep on Truckin’ (Inner Freak Records, 2021)

Photo: Amanda Adam

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About this podcast:

Scream Therapy explores the link between punk rock and mental health. My guests are members of the underground music scene who are living with mental health challenges, like myself.

Intro/background music clips:

Submission Hold - "Cranium Ache"

Render Useless - "The Second Flight of Icarus"

Contact host Jason Schreurs - [email protected]

On episode 52 host Jason Schreurs talks to Ryan Young of Off With Their Heads and his online punk store Anxious and Angry about how the negative side of punk rock was a detriment to his mental health. Ryan says that over the years he's discovered that creating music and touring on his own terms was the best way to remain stable.

http://anxiousandangry.com

Featured song clips:

Off With Their Heads - "Wrong" from From the Bottom (No Idea Records, 2008)

Off With Their Heads - "I Am You" from From the Bottom (No Idea Records, 2008)

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About this podcast:

Scream Therapy explores the link between punk rock and mental health. My guests are members of the underground music scene who are living with mental health challenges, like myself.

Intro/background music clips:

Submission Hold - "Cranium Ache"

Render Useless - "The Second Flight of Icarus"

Contact host Jason Schreurs - [email protected]

On episode 51 host Jason Schreurs talks to Lesley University psychology professor Joe Mageary about how he integrated punk morals with his professional life in academia. Joe has published dissertations on many topics rooted in the DIY punk scene, including the therapeutic value of punk and hardcore.

Featured song clips:

The Enemy Within - "I Won't Forget" from As Long as I can Walk, I’ll Step Out of Line (2012)

Disaster Strikes - “The Fighting Path” from In the Age of Corporate Personhood (Alternative Tentacles, 2016)

About this podcast:

Scream Therapy explores the link between punk rock and mental health. My guests are members of the underground music scene who are living with mental health challenges, like myself.

SUPPORT SCREAM THERAPY: BUY SOME MERCH!

teepublic.com/user/scream-therapy

Intro/background music clips:

Submission Hold - "Cranium Ache"

Render Useless - "The Second Flight of Icarus"

Contact host Jason Schreurs - [email protected]

Host Jason Schreurs recaps episodes 41-50 of Scream Therapy. If you missed any of these episodes, it's time to catch up!

About this podcast:

Scream Therapy explores the link between punk rock and mental health. My guests are members of the underground music scene who are living with mental health challenges, like myself.

SUPPORT SCREAM THERAPY: BUY SOME MERCH!

teepublic.com/user/scream-therapy

Intro/background music:

Submission Hold - "Cranium Ache" from The Buzz of a Buzzless Situation

Propagandhi - "Supporting Caste" from Supporting Caste (G7 Welcoming Committee/Smallman Records, 2009)

Render Useless - "Bravery in a Sea of Cowards"

Render Useless - "Clique"

Render Useless - "Becoming Anti Human)"

Render Useless - "Attention All Shoppers"

Render Useless - "Inside the Opposite Side of a Hiding Place Window"

From Discography (Clue#2 Records, 2007)

Contact host Jason Schreurs - [email protected]

Host Jason Schreurs welcomes Celeste Bell, co-director of the documentary film Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché and daughter of the influential X-Ray Spex singer. We discuss Poly's life with bipolar and how it informed her music and writing in the London punk scene and beyond.

www.celeste-bell.com

Featured song clips:

X-Ray Spex - "I Am a Cliché" from Germfree Adolescents (Caroline Records reissue, 1991)

X-Ray Spex - "Oh Bondage Up Yours!" from Germfree Adolescents (Caroline Records reissue, 1991)

1978 TV interview clip from Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché

X-Ray Spex - "Plastic Bag" from Germfree Adolescents (EMI, 1978)

X-Ray Spex - "Identity" from Germfree Adolescents (EMI, 1978)

About this podcast:

Scream Therapy explores the link between punk rock and mental health. My guests are members of the underground music scene who are living with mental health challenges, like myself.

SUPPORT SCREAM THERAPY: BUY SOME MERCH!

teepublic.com/user/scream-therapy

Intro/background music clips:

Submission Hold - "Cranium Ache"

Render Useless - "The Second Flight of Icarus"

Contact host Jason Schreurs - [email protected]

On Flex Your Head episode 13 host Jason Schreurs and first-time guest Donald Kennedy gush about White Lung's raw nerve of an album, 'Sorry.' This is Flex Your Head's newest album by far and is still one of the best punk albums of all time, even though it's only 10 songs in 19 minutes. If you don't agree that this album rules, you'll be bumming out two obsessed fans of 'Sorry,' and huge fans of this band's full discography, for that matter.

http://whitelung.ca

Featured song clips:

White Lung - "Take the Mirror" from Sorry (Deranged Records, 2012)

White Lung - "Thick Lip" from Sorry (Deranged Records, 2012)

White Lung - "Bag" from Sorry (Deranged Records, 2012)

White Lung - "St. Dad" from Sorry (Deranged Records, 2012)

White Lung - "Bunny" from Sorry (Deranged Records, 2012)

White Lung - "Glue" from Sorry (Deranged Records, 2012)

White Lung - "Deadbeat" from Sorry (Deranged Records, 2012)

About this podcast:

Flex Your Head is a spinoff of the Scream Therapy podcast where host Jason Schreurs welcomes a guest each episode to discuss a classic punk album.

The main Scream Therapy podcast explores the link between punk rock and mental health. My guests are members of the underground music scene who are living with mental health challenges, like myself.

SUPPORT SCREAM THERAPY: BUY SOME MERCH!

teepublic.com/user/scream-therapy

Intro/background music clips:

Submission Hold - "Cranium Ache" from The Buzz of a Buzzless Situation

Minor Threat - "12XU" (originally by Wire) from V/A - Flex Your Head (Dischord Records, 1982)

Contact host Jason Schreurs - [email protected]

Host Jason Schreurs and artist, researcher and therapist Jessica Masino Drass discuss how she uses the tenets of punk rock to inform the art therapy she uses with women who have trauma histories. She explains how "punk rock" concepts such as deconstruction/reconstruction and individualism/authenticity can be used as creative expression and healing.

http://jessdrass.com

Featured song clips:

Tilt - "Past the Point" from 'Til It Kills (Fat Wreck Chords, 1995)

L7 - "Everglade" from Bricks Are Heavy (Slash Records, 1992)

About this podcast:

Scream Therapy explores the link between punk rock and mental health. My guests are members of the underground music scene who are living with mental health challenges, like myself.

SUPPORT SCREAM THERAPY: BUY SOME MERCH!

teepublic.com/user/scream-therapy

Intro/background music clips:

Submission Hold - "Cranium Ache"

Render Useless - "The Second Flight of Icarus"

Contact host Jason Schreurs - [email protected]

On Flex Your Head episode 12 host Jason Schreurs and now-regular guest Drue Swalwell try to encapsulate in words the pure majesty of Jawbreaker's 24 Hour Revenge Therapy. I know. Good luck, right? Listen to us try our best as we fawn over the band's groundbreaking emo punk/melodic hardcore and Blake Schwarzenbach's incomparable songwriting.

http://jawbreakerband.com

Featured song clips:

Jawbreaker - "The Boat Dreams from the Hill" from 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (Tupelo Recording Company/Communion Label, 1994)

Jawbreaker - "Indictment" from 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (Tupelo Recording Company/Communion Label, 1994)

Jawbreaker - "Boxcar" from 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (Tupelo Recording Company/Communion Label, 1994)

Jawbreaker - "Jinx Removing" from 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (Tupelo Recording Company/Communion Label, 1994)

Jawbreaker - "Do You Still Hate Me?" from 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (Tupelo Recording Company/Communion Label, 1994)

Jawbreaker - "Condition Oakland" from 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (Tupelo Recording Company/Communion Label, 1994)

Jawbreaker - "In Sadding Around" from 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (Tupelo Recording Company/Communion Label, 1994)

About this podcast:

Flex Your Head is a spinoff of the Scream Therapy podcast where host Jason Schreurs welcomes a guest each episode to discuss a classic punk album.

The main Scream Therapy podcast explores the link between punk rock and mental health. My guests are members of the underground music scene who are living with mental health challenges, like myself.

SUPPORT SCREAM THERAPY: BUY SOME MERCH!

teepublic.com/user/scream-therapy

Intro/background music clips:

Submission Hold - "Cranium Ache" from The Buzz of a Buzzless Situation

Minor Threat - "12XU" (originally by Wire) from V/A - Flex Your Head (Dischord Records, 1982)

Contact host Jason Schreurs - [email protected]

Host Jason Schreurs welcomes graphic novelist and punk musician Reid Chancellor to talk about making the decision to step away from the punk scene to take care of his mental and physical health. When Reid returned to the scene, he had a new perspective and a book about the connection between punk and mental health.

handtossedrecords.bandcamp.com

microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/artist/reid-chancellor

Featured song clips:

Braille - “I Want Your (Sympathy)” from Deth Ray (Hand-Tossed Records, 2017)

Jawbreaker - “Save Your Generation” from Dear You (DGC Records, 1995)

Reid Chancellor - “(I Never Thought That I Would Be) the Bomb” from Pinhead (Hand-Tossed Records, 2017)

About this podcast:

Scream Therapy explores the link between punk rock and mental health. My guests are members of the underground music scene who are living with mental health challenges, like myself.

Intro/background music clips:

Submission Hold - "Cranium Ache"

Render Useless - "The Second Flight of Icarus"

Contact host Jason Schreurs - [email protected]

On Flex Your Head episode 11 host Jason Schreurs welcomes Nelson from Nelson for his first (and definitely not last) episode. We talk about the majesty and power that is Fugazi's 13 Songs, a landmark in the second wave of Dischord Records/DC punk/hardcore. How do you put such amazingness into words? We try our best.

http://fugazi.bandcamp.com

dischord.com/band/fugazi

dischord.com/fugazi_live_series

Featured song clips:

Fugazi - "Waiting Room" from 13 Songs (Dischord Records, 1989)

Fugazi - "And the Same" from 13 Songs (Dischord Records, 1989)

Fugazi - "Bad Mouth" from 13 Songs (Dischord Records, 1989)

Fugazi - "Provisional" from 13 Songs (Dischord Records, 1989)

The Dirty Nil - "Provisional" (Fugazi cover) (Live at Little Elephant, 2016)

Fugazi - "Promises" from 13 Songs (Dischord Records, 1989)

About this podcast:

Flex Your Head is a spinoff of the Scream Therapy podcast where host Jason Schreurs welcomes a guest each episode to discuss a classic punk album.

The main Scream Therapy podcast explores the link between punk rock and mental health. My guests are members of the underground music scene who are living with mental health challenges, like myself.

Intro/background music clips:

Submission Hold - "Cranium Ache" from The Buzz of a Buzzless Situation

Minor Threat - "12XU" (originally by Wire) from V/A - Flex Your Head (Dischord Records, 1982)

Contact host Jason Schreurs - [email protected]