Not As Crazy As You Think Podcast
116 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsMental Health is attainable for anyone--especially those labeled with mental illness. Join artist, memoir writer, and bipolar psychiatric survivor, Jen Gaita Siciliano, as she challenges our world's current limited understanding of mental illness in interviews with artists, healers, educators and shamans, who offer fresh perspectives on mental health and creativity. Episodes also include Jen's personal writing on living as a bipolar creative, as well as news commentary that exposes psychiatry as an incompatible paradigm with the true landscape of the human mind. If you are ready for a new narrative on the mental realm in a place that celebrates crazy and cool without penalty, then Not As Crazy As You Think is for you!
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Episodes
On TikTok and Mental Health: A Non-Professional Conversation from the Heart with Kailey Bartholomew (S2, E6)
March 17, 2021 17:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBIn the episode, "On TikTok and Mental Health: A Non-Professional Conversation from the Heart with Kailey Bartholomew (S2, E6)," Kailey and I analyze a commentary in an article highlighting the mental health creators on TikTok and discuss why the informal conversation on mental health needs to take place even more now than ever before. Opening up about her own personal experience on therapy, labels, meds, and alternative healing, Kailey bravely shares how mental health is attainable for anyon...
A Reading From My Memoir: Chapter 3, "The Brahman Class" (S2, E5)
March 10, 2021 17:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBShow Notes: In this episode I read the third chapter "The Brahman Class," from my memoir, Not As Crazy As You Think. In 1994, I arrive in New Delhi, India to visit an old college friend, who was born into the royal Brahman Class. After meeting Sumit's parents, I learn how this highest class believes they’ve earned their lucky place in the caste system at the top of the evolutionary pyramid through the principle of Karma. And all other Indians deserve their lot as well; particularly the Unto...
Attention Deficit Disorder, Zoom Classrooms During Covid, and Alternatives to Drugs (S2, E4)
March 04, 2021 05:00 - 27 minutes - 19.3 MBShow Notes: With the combination of Covid Zoom classrooms and distracted kids, ADD, or Attention Deficit Disorder, experienced a nationwide "most popular" diagnosis last year. What are the symptoms, treatment and prognosis of this phenomenon, and does it last forever? In psychiatry, medication is always the main form of treatment, but are there others? My friend Katie, a high school student who was labeled with ADD, joins us for part II and shares the course of action her parents chose in ...
Reclaiming the Authentic Self through Exploring the Divine Inner Child with Robin Queen Finkelstein (S2, E3)
February 24, 2021 22:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBIn the episode, “Reclaiming the Authentic Self through Exploring the Divine Inner Child with Robin Queen Finkelstein" (S2 E3), Jen Gaita Siciliano interviews psychospiritual counselor Robin Queen Finkelstein, who shares her unique style of non-traditional counseling rooted in compassion and an integrative holistic treatment of mind, body, and spirit. Robin shares her recipe for real therapeutic healing, which includes treating the soul, honoring personal desire, and showing up with willingn...
Changing the World from Within: Cooperation and the Process with Mr. D (S2, E2)
February 17, 2021 17:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MBIn the episode, “Changing the World From Within: Cooperation and the Process with Mr. D,” Jen Gaita Siciliano interviews once again spiritual teacher and former Social Studies instructor, Mr. D , or Don DiBenedetto. Don offers insight on tapping into acceptance and understanding of others in our nation's trying time, along with thankfulness, enjoying the process, and how joyfulness is always within reach. #bipolarartist #manic #depression #cooperation #joyfulness #changefromwithin #wor...
Deleting Facebook and an Artist's Electronic Health Records (S2, E1)
February 10, 2021 23:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBIn the episode, "Deleting Facebook and an Artist's Electronic Health Records," I share the experience of deleting my account on Facebook in response to its violation of privacy laws, this time affecting bipolars directly. In Part 2, I reveal notes from my Psych hospital reports that show the false interpretations and inaccuracies of what the institution records about me for their electronic health records. #OwnYourData #DeletingFacebook #DeepLearning #MentalIllness #MentalHealth #Bipo...
A Call to Techies with a Conscience! Facebook AI, The Social Dilemma, and a Visit from Nancy (S1, E8)
January 19, 2021 07:00 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBIn Episode 8 of Not As Crazy As You Think Podcast, "A Call to Techies with a Conscience! Facebook AI, The Social Dilemma, and a Visit from Nancy." Part 1 shares a letter I wrote to a handful of techies from the movies The Social Dilemma and The Great Hack demanding a call to action to help us prevent a civil war. In part 2, I read an excerpt from a true short story I wrote, The Rise of AI and The Humans Left Behind, followed by a chat with Nancy Meza, who was a witness. #OwnYourData #TheG...
Exploring the Dream Realm with Warren Falcon: Jung, the Unconscious and the Breakthrough (S1, E7)
January 06, 2021 21:00 - 49 minutes - 34 MBIn Episode 7 of Not As Crazy As You Think Podcast: "Exploring the Dream Realm with Warren Falcon: Jung, the Unconscious and the Breakthrough," Jungian-oriented counselor and dream expert, Warren Falcon, illuminates a deeper mental reality through his knowledge and insight on the collective unconscious and the immaterial world of dreams. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcast, iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you listen to podcasts! #jungian #mentalhealth #mentalillness #collecti...
Traveling in 1994, and a Reading of Chapter 2: The Scientific Library (S1, E6)
December 30, 2020 22:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBIn Episode 6, I discuss the reality of what it meant to travel across the world in 1994. In my reading of Chapter 2 from my book, Not As Crazy As You Think, entitled "The Scientific Library," while working as a periodicals clerk in the American Museum of Natural History library in 1994, my wise supervisor Roscoe, once a world traveler and 1960s black civil rights activist, inspires me to seek enlightenment. He leads me to Darwin’s Origin of the Species among other books in the stacks on scie...
How Psychiatric Labeling Leads to a St. Patty's Day Lockdown: Reading of Chapter 1 from My Memoir (S1, E5)
December 23, 2020 19:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBIn Episode 5, "How Psychiatric Labeling Leads to a St. Patty's Day Lockdown: Reading of Chapter 1 from My Memoir (S1, E5)," I give a commentary on the concurrence of COVID-19 and a rise in psychiatric labels, followed by a reading of Chapter One of my book, Not As Crazy As You Think; where I find myself in the emergency room of Northern Westchester Hospital suffering human rights and civil rights violations followed by an unlawful detainment based on my bipolar label alone. Connect: Subs...
How Psychiatric Labeling Leads to a St. Patty's Day Lockdown, Chapter 1 (S1, E5)
December 23, 2020 19:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBIn Episode 5, "How Psychiatric Labeling Leads to a St. Patty's Day Lockdown, Chapter 1 (S1, E5)," I give a commentary on the concurrence of COVID-19 and a rise in psychiatric labels, followed by a reading of Chapter One of my book, Not As Crazy As You Think; where I find myself in the emergency room of Northern Westchester Hospital suffering human rights and civil rights violations followed by an unlawful detainment based on my bipolar label alone. Connect: Subscribe to the Not As Crazy ...
How Psychiatric Labeling Leads to a St. Patty's Day Lockdown; Reading of Chapter 1 from My Memoir (S1, E5)
December 23, 2020 19:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBIn Episode 5, "How Psychiatric Labeling Leads to a St. Patty's Day Lockdown; Reading of Chapter 1 from My Memoir (S1, E5)," I give a commentary on the concurrence of COVID-19 and a rise in psychiatric labels, followed by a reading of Chapter One of my book, Not As Crazy As You Think; where I find myself in the emergency room of Northern Westchester Hospital suffering human rights and civil rights violations followed by an unlawful detainment based on my bipolar label alone. Connect: Subs...
Reading of "Cheerios and Bananas" and a Visit From The Carmel Diner (S1, E4)
December 16, 2020 22:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBIn Part I of Episode 4, a reading of the short story "Cheerios and Bananas" highlights my years at The Carmel Diner--the people, the flavors, and the local psychiatric hospital. Former colleague and friend, Shannon Peterson, joins the conversation in Part II, sharing her personal views about the unsound practices of the psychiatric institution. Connect: Subscribe to the Not As Crazy As You Think YouTube channel. Join the Not As Crazy As You Think Facebook Page. Follow me on Instagram and...
Adapting Creatively to Change with Entrepreneur Tina Klideris (S1, E3)
December 09, 2020 19:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBIn Ep. 3 of Not As Crazy As You Think Podcast: "Adapting Creatively with Entrepreneur Tina Klideris," founder of Artemix shares her story in adapting to change when the entertainment industry went on hold during Covid. She discovered that even in such a difficult time, positives popped up through unexpected creative outlets. Find the podcast on Pandora, Spotify, Amazon Music, Stitcher and more. Check out my website at: http://www.jengaitasiciliano.com/ Connect: Subscribe to the Not As ...
The Characters Inside Lyn Liao Butler: A Writer's Mind (S1, E2)
December 02, 2020 21:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBIn Episode 2, Jen Gaita Siciliano interviews author Lyn Liao Butler, whose work offers a fresh perspective on the Taiwanese narrative infused with honesty and humor. Lyn shares how she taps into her well of creativity, as she keeps the characters in her stories alive in her mind in everyday life. Along the road to success in becoming an author, she struggled with depression but learned to overcome mental distress through finding balance with exercise, mindfulness, and using writing as a form...
The Wisdom of Mr. D: Tools for Mental Health and Finding Purpose (S1, E1)
November 15, 2020 06:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBIn Episode 1, Jen Gaita Siciliano talks mental health strategies in an interview with Mr. D, or Don DiBenedetto, her Social Studies teacher from 5th-8th grade, whose personal spiritual insight offers valuable tools for sustaining long-term mental health. On everything from visualizing, letter writing, affirming, and living life like a 3 year old in a Superman cape, Mr. D shares engaging stories with golden nuggets of wisdom that offer ways to shift focus and manifest change in your life. ...