Such A BAD What?

Sometimes being alone is better than being surrounded by people who make you feel alone.

In this episode of Such a BAD What?, Domo Rochelle gets candid about choosing herself, setting boundaries, and navigating relationships with people who misunderstand, minimize, or take advantage of her mental health struggles.

From the stigma surrounding psychiatric hospitalization to the emotional toll of constantly having to defend her reality, Domo explores what it means to reclaim her peace without apologizing for protecting it.

Because being Bipolar, Anxious, and Depressed doesn’t make her weak, incapable, or undeserving of respect.

Sometimes choosing yourself means being BAD by yourself.

Feeling BAD. Doing good anyway.

In “Nobody,” Domo Rochelle unpacks the phrase “Nobody is coming to save you” through the loneliness of feeling unseen, even when people are around. She reflects on boundaries, mental health, and others claiming credit for her healing, arriving at a hard-won truth: accepting support doesn’t mean giving someone else ownership of your survival. She’s been finding her way home to herself all along.

What if nobody believed you? Not because you were lying, but because they couldn’t see what you were carrying?

In Episode 6 of Such a BAD What?, Domo gets personal about invisible disabilities, mental health, being labeled “high functioning,” and the pressure to look okay before anyone believes you’re struggling.

Because functioning isn’t flourishing. Productivity isn’t proof you’re okay. And invisible doesn’t mean imaginary.

You don’t have to prove you’re hurting. Sometimes, “Something isn’t right” is enough.

🎙️ Such a BAD What?Feeling B.A.D. Doing good anyways.

Eight years after my bipolar diagnosis, I’m reflecting on everything I’ve survived and everything I’ve built. In this deeply personal episode, I share the lessons I’ve learned about resilience, fear, relationships, loss, and choosing to keep going. From losing friends and jobs to graduating college, building a career, and creating a life I’m proud of, this is a conversation about defying the odds and proving that a diagnosis can shape your story without defining your future.

For years, I was called lazy. The reality was far more complicated.

In this episode, I unpack the impact of growing up with visible mental health struggles while being labeled instead of understood. From burnout and overperformance to family dynamics and healing, this is a conversation about the stories we inherit about ourselves—and the freedom that comes from finally questioning them.

Maybe I wasn’t lazy.

Maybe I was exhausted.

In Episode 3 of The Such A Bad What Podcast, Domo unpacks the emotional exhaustion that comes from surviving in spaces where honesty is punished and silence is rewarded.

Here Are Your Paint Brushes is a deeply vulnerable conversation about family dynamics, generational trauma, emotional survival, and the painful realization that some people only love the version of you that stays quiet. Through reflections on growing up in a Black household, being labeled “the strong one,” and navigating the loneliness of carrying pain silently, Domo explores what happens when self-protection is mistaken for rebellion.

This episode dives into the weight of survival mode, the role of the “black sheep” in dysfunctional families, and the courage it takes to reclaim your voice after years of emotional suppression. With raw storytelling and honest self-reflection, Domo speaks on choosing peace, setting boundaries, and no longer shrinking to preserve relationships that require self-abandonment.

At its core, Here Are Your Paint Brushes is about releasing the need to control how others perceive you. It’s a reminder that telling the truth about your pain does not make you difficult, it makes you human.

For anyone emotionally exhausted from constantly surviving, this episode offers something many people rarely hear:

You are allowed to rest. ✨

What does it really mean to grow up in the same house?

In this episode, Domo unpacks the quiet reality that shared spaces don’t equal shared experiences. From being labeled “the bad one” to navigating comparison, misinterpretation, and emotional neglect, this story dives into how identity is shaped long before we have the words to defend it.

This isn’t just about childhood.

It’s about the labels that follow us.

The environments that misunderstood us.

And the healing that comes from finally telling the truth.

Same house. Different childhoods.

And still… we made it.

Feeling bad. Doing good anyway.

Such a BAD what? Podcast is a space for the stories that don’t fit in small talk.

Hosted by Domo Rochelle, this podcast explores mental health, trauma, identity, and survival. Raw, unfiltered, and real. No performing. No sugarcoating. Just truth.

This isn’t about fixing you.

It’s about being seen.

For anyone who’s ever been labeled, misunderstood, or forced to rebuild themselves, this space is yours.

WELCOME, to the first episode of Such a BAD What Podcast.

I’m Domo. 30, from Chicago, and unapologetically real. In this episode, I’m opening up about mental health, survival, and what it really means to be labeled a “BAD” Black woman.

From early diagnoses to finding my voice, this isn’t just my story, it’s me reclaiming it.

If you’ve ever been misunderstood, judged, or forced to rebuild yourself… this is for you.

Let’s get into it. 🌻✨