Scream Therapy

Scream Therapy

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Scream Therapy episodes

  • Episode 78: Josh Scogin of '68 on riding the waves of difficult emotions
    Host Jason Schreurs welcomes Josh Scogin of '68 (not to mention the Chariot and Norma Jean) to talk about how he deals head-on with strong emotions and pivots them into creative output. He also talks about finding freedom in music and performing live.
    http://theband68.com
    Featured song clips:
    '68 - "Removed their Hats" from Yes, and... (Pure Noise Records, 2023)
    The Chariot - And Shot Each Other (The Fiancee, 2017)
    '68 - "Removed their Hooks" from Yes, and... (Pure Noise Records, 2023)
    Photo: Bobby Bates
    THE SCREAM THERAPY BOOK is now available! Scream Therapy: A Punk Journey through Mental Health is a memoir-plus that has been heralded by New York Times best-selling authors. Like the podcast, it links the community-minded punk rock scene with the mental wellness of the punks who belong to it.
    ORDER A COPY OF THE BOOK!
    screamtherapyhq.com/book
    SUPPORT SCREAM THERAPY: BUY SOME MERCH!
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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]
    28 min
  • Episode 77: Violet Mayugba of Destroy Boys on EMDR therapy
    Destroy Boys guitarist/vocalist Violet Mayugba guests on the latest episode to talk about eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy, commonly known as EMDR, and the effect it has had on dealing with her trauma. EMDR has helped Violet replace triggering events, sounds, and even smells, with new, solutions-focused thoughts and actions.
    http://destroydestroyboys.com
    Featured song clips:
    Destroy Boys - “Methatonin” from Make Room (1-2-3-4 Go! Records, 2018)
    Green Day - “Geek Stink Breath” from Insomniac (Reprise Records, 1995)
    Destroy Boys - “Bob” from Open Mouth, Open Heart (Hopeless Records, 2021)
    THE SCREAM THERAPY BOOK is now available! Scream Therapy: A Punk Journey through Mental Health is a memoir-plus that has been heralded by New York Times best-selling authors. Like the podcast, it links the community-minded punk rock scene with the mental wellness of the punks who belong to it.
    ORDER A COPY OF THE BOOK!
    screamtherapyhq.com/book
    SUPPORT SCREAM THERAPY: BUY SOME MERCH!
    screamtherapy.com/store
    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]
    27 min
  • Episode 76: Writer and DC punk alumn Seth Lorinczi on "broken contracts"
    Writer and DC punk/hardcore veteran Seth Lorinczi joins host Jason Schreurs to talk about how some people join the punk scene as a way to rebuild a "broken contract" with a world that failed them. Seth also talks about how, for him, punk is an orientation rather than an attitude or style of dress.
    https://sethlorinczi.com
    Featured song clips:
    Circus Lupus - "Tightrope Walker" from Super Genius (Dischord Records, 1992)
    Lungfish - "My Fool Heart" from Talking Songs for Walking (Dischord Records, 1992)
    Rites of Spring - "Drink Deep" from Rites of Spring (Dischord Records, 1985)
    THE SCREAM THERAPY BOOK is now available! Scream Therapy: A Punk Journey through Mental Health is a memoir-plus that has been heralded by New York Times best-selling authors. Like the podcast, it links the community-minded punk rock scene with the mental wellness of the punks who belong to it.
    Order a copy of the Scream Therapy book here: screamtherapyhq.com/book
    SUPPORT SCREAM THERAPY: BUY SOME MERCH!
    screamtherapy.com/store
    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]
    29 min
  • Episode 75: Yasmin Nur on confronting self-harm
    Kansas singer/songwriter Yasmin Nur comes onto the podcast for Episode 75. She talks to host Jason Schreurs about how music helps her control her self-harming thoughts and actions. Yasmin had her eyes opened by 90s alt rock and punk bands featuring powerful women. The music changed her life and helped her find a healthier and more stable path.
    http://yasminnur.bandcamp.com
    Featured song clips:
    Yasmin Nur - "I Wanna Throw Up" from Punch Me! This Is a Nightmare! (Skeletal Lightning, 2023)
    Veruca Salt - "Volcano Girls" from Eight Arms To Hold You (Geffen Records, 1997)
    Kittie - "Brackish" from Spit (Artemis Records, 2000)
    Yasmin Nur - "Pocket Full of Posies" from Punch Me! This Is a Nightmare! (Skeletal Lightning, 2023)
    THE SCREAM THERAPY BOOK is now available! Scream Therapy: A Punk Journey through Mental Health is a memoir-plus that has been heralded by New York Times best-selling authors. Like the podcast, it links the community-minded punk rock scene with the mental wellness of the punks who belong to it.
    Order a copy of the Scream Therapy book here: screamtherapyhq.com/book
    SUPPORT SCREAM THERAPY: BUY SOME MERCH!
    screamtherapy.com/store
    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]
    26 min
  • Episode 74: Bill Wilson of Blackout! Records on the New York hardcore community
    Host Jason Schreurs is joined by Bill Wilson of Blackout! Records, an influential creative force in the New York hardcore scene. Bill struggled with physical and mental health issues throughout his life and found a support system in loud, heavy, aggressive bands like Sheer Terror and Breakdown. Bill says the hardcore scene got him through his toughest times.
    http://blackoutrecords.com
    Featured song clips:
    Sheer Terror - "Time Don't Heal a Thing" from Thanks fer Nuthin' (Blackout! Records, 1992)
    Black Flag - "Rise Above" from Damaged (SST Records, 1981)
    Outburst - "The Hard Way" from Where the Wild Things Are compilation (Blackout! Records, 1989)
    Breakdown - "Kickback" from Where the Wild Things Are compilation (Blackout! Records, 1989)
    THE SCREAM THERAPY BOOK is now available! Scream Therapy: A Punk Journey through Mental Health is a memoir-plus that has been heralded by New York Times best-selling authors. Like the podcast, it links the community-minded punk rock scene with the mental wellness of the punks who belong to it.
    Order a copy of the Scream Therapy book here: screamtherapyhq.com/book
    SUPPORT SCREAM THERAPY: BUY SOME MERCH!
    screamtherapy.com/store
    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]
    27 min
  • Episode 73: Alex Pley of lowheaven on mental health support groups
    Host Jason Schreurs and lowheaven guitarist Alex Pley talks about his experiences with support groups and how they are so important to a mental wellness plan. Alex has attended and facilitated support groups and is also a a mental health professional who works in group therapy. The punk scene and support groups have a lot in common, according to Alex, in that they provide a place where people understand each other and can band together over common struggles.
    http://lowheavenband.bandcamp.com
    Featured song clips:
    lowheaven - "Cancer Sleep" from collapse (Skeletal Lightning, 2023)
    Protest The Hero - "Nautical" live in Hamilton, Ontario, (June 10, 2006)
    lowheaven - "Of Us Away" from collapse (Skeletal Lightning, 2023)
    THE SCREAM THERAPY BOOK is now available! Scream Therapy: A Punk Journey through Mental Health is a memoir-plus that has been heralded by New York Times best-selling authors. Like the podcast, it links the community-minded punk rock scene with the mental wellness of the punks who belong to it.
    Order a copy of the Scream Therapy book here: screamtherapyhq.com/book
    SUPPORT SCREAM THERAPY: BUY SOME MERCH!
    screamtherapy.com/store
    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]
    29 min
  • Episode 72: Jacob Lilly of Chamber on heavy music as a healthy outlet
    Host Jason Schreurs and Chamber vocalist Jacob Lilly talk about the many benefits of heavy music like hardcore, punk, and metal on emotional and mental stability. Jacob recounts finding bands like the Acacia Strain and Rotting Out when he was in his teens and how it formed his identity and gave him the community he needed. He's been putting on shows and playing in bands ever since.
    http://chambertn.bandcamp.com
    Featured song clips:
    Chamber - "Devoured" from A Love to Kill For (Pure Noise Records, 2023)
    Rotting Out - "Reaper" from Ronin (Pure Noise Records, 2020)
    Sick of It All - "Road Less Travelled" from Last Act of Defiance (Century Media Records, 2014)
    Chamber - "Hopeless Portrait" from A Love to Kill For (Pure Noise Records, 2023)
    THE SCREAM THERAPY BOOK is now available! Scream Therapy: A Punk Journey through Mental Health is a memoir-plus that has been heralded by New York Times best-selling authors. Like the podcast, it links the community-minded punk rock scene with the mental wellness of the punks who belong to it.
    Order a copy of the Scream Therapy book here: screamtherapyhq.com/book
    SUPPORT SCREAM THERAPY: BUY SOME MERCH!
    screamtherapy.com/store
    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]
    26 min
  • Episode 71: Psychologist Bobbi Ballard on creative block and burnout
    Host Jason Schreurs brings registered psychologist Bobbi Ballard onto the podcast to talk about the struggles that musicians and other creative types face in their art. She explains how burnout and creative block are connected and what plays into performance anxiety.
    http://ballard-phd.com
    Featured song clips:
    The Raincoats - "Fairytale in the Supermarket" from The Raincoats (Rough Trade, 1979)
    None More Black - "Ice Cream with the Enemy" from File Under Black (Fat Wreck Chords, 2003)
    Le Tigre - "Deceptacon" from Le Tigre (Mr. Lady Records, 2009)
    THE SCREAM THERAPY BOOK is now available! Scream Therapy: A Punk Journey through Mental Health is a memoir-plus that has been heralded by New York Times best-selling authors. Like the podcast, it links the community-minded punk rock scene with the mental wellness of the punks who belong to it.
    Order a copy of the Scream Therapy book here: screamtherapyhq.com/book
    SUPPORT SCREAM THERAPY: BUY SOME MERCH!
    screamtherapy.com/store
    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]
    27 min
  • Flex Your Head 16: Mclusky - 'Do Dallas'
    On Flex Your Head episode 16, host Jason Schreurs welcomes back Donald Kennedy to try and understand the enigmatic album Do Dallas by Welsh pranksters Mclusky. We talk about how band leader Andy Falkous swears the band was never popular, and we kinda agree. It didn't stop the unhinged trio from making better albums than the Pixies.
    christianfitness.bandcamp.com/album/mclusky-do-dallas
    Featured song clips:
    Mclusky - "Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues" from Do Dallas (Too Pure Records, 2002)
    Mclusky - "No New Wave No Fun" from Do Dallas (Too Pure Records, 2002)
    Mclusky - "Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues" from Do Dallas (Too Pure Records, 2002)
    Mclusky - "Chases" from Do Dallas (Too Pure Records, 2002)
    Bully - "Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues" (Mclusky cover, live at Codfish Hollow, 2016)
    Mclusky - "Collagen Rock" from Do Dallas (Too Pure Records, 2002)
    Mclusky - "To Hell with Good Intentions" (Live at ULU) from mcluskyism (Too Pure Records, 2006)
    Mclusky - "To Hell with Good Intentions" (Live on Pop Factory)
    Mclusky - "Reviewing the Reviewers" (bonus track) from Do Dallas (Too Pure Records, 2002)
    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.
    THE SCREAM THERAPY BOOK is now available! Scream Therapy: A Punk Journey through Mental Health is a memoir-plus that has been heralded by New York Times best-selling authors. Like the podcast, it links the community-minded punk rock scene with the mental wellness of the punks who belong to it.
    Order a copy of the Scream Therapy book here: screamtherapyhq.com/book
    SUPPORT SCREAM THERAPY: BUY SOME MERCH!
    screamtherapy.com/store
    Intro/background music clips:
    Submission Hold - "Cranium Ache"
    Render Useless - "The Second Flight of Icarus"
    Contact host Jason Schreurs - [email protected]
    25 min
  • Episode 70.5: Host Jason Schreurs recaps episodes 61-70
    Host Jason Schreurs recaps episodes 61-70 of Scream Therapy. If you missed any of these episodes, it's time to catch up!
    THE SCREAM THERAPY BOOK is now available! Scream Therapy: A Punk Journey through Mental Health is a memoir-plus that has been heralded by New York Times best-selling authors. Like the podcast, it links the community-minded punk rock scene with the mental wellness of the punks who belong to it. Order a copy of the Scream Therapy book here: screamtherapyhq.com/book
    SUPPORT SCREAM THERAPY: BUY SOME MERCH!
    screamtherapyhq.com/store
    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:
    Submission Hold - "Cranium Ache" from The Buzz of a Buzzless Situation
    Line Traps - S/T album (linetraps.bandcamp.com, 2015)
    Shotmaker - "Driver" from Mouse Ear [Forget-Me-Not] (Troubleman Unlimited, 1996)
    Contact host Jason Schreurs - [email protected]
    23 min

About Scream Therapy

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Scream Therapy is a podcast about using punk rock as a catalyst for mental health. My guests are other members of the punk music scene who, like me, have lived experience with mental health challenges.