Psychiatry, Rewritten - The Gray Area
by laine
Exploring the spaces between labels, lives, and healing.Hosted by Laine — a psychiatric nurse practitioner with lived experience — Psychiatry, Rewritten challenges the way we talk about mental health. With honest stories and real conversations, it explores the gray areas between symptoms and identity, diagnosis and humanity. Because healing isn’t linear, and the truth isn’t always clinical.This is where the rewrite begins.
Episodes
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Your Gut Has a Mind of its Own
In this episode, we dive into the fascinating connection between the brain and the gut — sometimes called the second brain. The gut houses about 500 million neurons and communicates constantly with the central nervous system through the vagus nerve. In fact, around 80% of vagus nerve fibers run...
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Borderline: The Diagnosis Trauma Built
In this episode, we strip back the stigma of Borderline Personality Disorder and look at it through the lens of trauma. Instead of a “disordered personality,” what if borderline is better understood as the long shadow of chronic relational wounds—neglect, betrayal, abandonment, or ongoing...
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Dementia in a Bottle
Benzodiazepines and gabapentin are handed out like candy — for anxiety, for sleep, for nerve pain, for “whatever works.” But the quiet cost often doesn’t make it into the conversation: memory loss, cognitive decline, and even dementia risk. In this episode, we dig into the science and the stories...
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Before the Wound: Why Prevention Matters
Episode Title: Before the Wound: Why Prevention Matters Series: The Mirror, the Match, and the Megaphone – Part II Description: We cannot keep showing up after the damage is done. (Although we even need to get better at that.) In this second installment of the series, we shift our focus from...
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The Match, the Mirror, and the Megaphone Pt. 1
Episode Title: The Mirror, the Match, and the Megaphone (Part I) *Series Launch: Psychiatry, Rewritten – The Reckoning Series Description: Welcome to the beginning of something deeper. In this first installment of The Mirror, the Match, and the Megaphone series, we lay the foundation for a raw,...
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No One Asked Him
I want my audience to know that I recorded this in one take with no editing whatsoever, and I uploaded it straight from my voice memos.
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Grief is the Price of Love (Vinny’s Episode)
This episode is very close to my heart. I hope it helps even one person find the strength the take the breath to make the choice to stay alive another day. Because I’m always glad when I make it through another round of grief. Because then I’ve grown stronger! Thanks for being here ☮️
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The Salt That Saved Lives: Rethinking Lithium
Lithium has a reputation — and most of it’s wrong. In this episode, we unpack the truth about one of the most effective, misunderstood, and underprescribed medications in psychiatry. From its powerful anti-suicidal properties to its long-term neuroprotective benefits, lithium isn’t just “that...
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Hope on a Drip: The Truth About IV Ketamine
What if the relief you’ve been chasing wasn’t months away — but minutes? In this episode, we dive deep into the world of IV ketamine: a treatment once reserved for anesthesiologists and now rapidly gaining traction in the psychiatric world. We’ll break down how ketamine works (yep, we’re talking...
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He Wasn’t Combative — He Was Confused
Dementia isn’t just about forgetting names or losing track of time. It’s about identity, safety, dignity — and the heartbreaking way our systems often fail to protect all three. In this episode, we go deeper than the surface signs. We talk about: • What dementia really looks like in day-to-day…
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First Stop, Rock Bottom: The ER and Mental Health Emergencies
What happens when the emergency room becomes the last stop for psychiatric care? In this raw and revealing episode, we shine a light on the overcrowded, overlooked world of psychiatric patients in the ER — a place designed for heart attacks and trauma codes, not holding people in mental health...
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It Hurts, But No One Can Find It
What happens when your body is screaming, but the tests all come back normal? In this episode, we explore somatization — the process where psychological distress shows up in the body through real, physical symptoms. We break down how and why this happens, the science behind it, and the painful...
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More Than a Label: Understanding Personality Disorders
Personality disorders are some of the most misunderstood—and most stigmatized—diagnoses in all of psychiatry. In this episode, we break down the myths, misconceptions, and messy truths about what it actually means to live with a personality disorder. From Cluster A to Cluster C, we explore how...
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Not Just “Crazy”: Understanding Schizophrenia Beyond the Myths
Schizophrenia. It’s one of the most feared, misunderstood, and stigmatized diagnoses in all of psychiatry — and most people have no idea what it actually is. In this episode, we go deeper than the textbooks. Laine is joined by co-host Jami — a family nurse practitioner working in detox — to…
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Why Can’t I Just Be Happy?
🎙️ Psychiatry, Rewritten — Mental health, demystified. This podcast channel exists to challenge the stereotypes, rewrite the narrative around psychiatric diagnoses, and talk about the things no one else will say out loud. Hosted by a psychiatric nurse practitioner who believes in truth-telling,...
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This Doesn’t Feel Like a Break - It Feels Like a Message
Hallucinations are one of the most misunderstood experiences in all of psychiatry. People assume they’re always terrifying, violent, or a sign of being “too far gone.” But the truth is more complex — and more human. In this episode, we talk about what it actually means to hear voices or see…
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“More Than a Mood: Understanding Bipolar Disorder”
We throw the word “bipolar” around like it means being dramatic or moody — but that’s not what bipolar disorder is. Not even close. In this episode, we break down the real definition of bipolar disorder — and why it’s so often misunderstood, misused, and misdiagnosed. We explore the differences...
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Mini Episode 1: Better Questions, Better Care
What if the problem isn’t that people aren’t answering — but that we’re not asking the right questions? In this short episode, we explore how the quality of our questions can completely change the outcome of a clinical interaction. From rushed intake forms to robotic checkboxes, too many...
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The Repair Process: After the Apology (Part 2)
What happens after the blow-up? And is sorry ever enough? In this follow-up to our deep dive on anger, we turn our focus to what comes after the rupture — the aftermath, the impact, and the often-overlooked work of repair. This episode unpacks the difference between apology and accountability,...
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Anger Isn’t the Enemy - It’s the Alarm: Understanding the Real Roots of Anger (Part 1)
Anger isn’t always about being mad — and it’s almost never just a personality flaw. Sometimes, it’s grief. Sometimes, it’s shame. And sometimes, it’s the only way a nervous system knows how to say, “I don’t feel safe.” In this episode, we go beneath the surface of anger to explore what’s really...
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“The Click”: When ADHD Isn’t the Whole Story”
Random Resources: https://www.pesi.com/blogs/ https://chadd.org/for-adults/overview/ https://www.hcp.med.harvard.edu/ncs/asrs.php https://www.understood.org/ Evidence-Based Journals (ADHD + Trauma related): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10587572/...
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It Wasn’t About Getting High
What if methamphetamine wasn’t about getting high — but about finally being able to think? In this raw and revealing episode of Psychiatry, Rewritten — The Gray Area, we explore what happens when someone with undiagnosed ADHD turns to street stimulants out of desperation. Through powerful...
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Borderline Isn’t a Sentence: Reclaiming the Diagnosis
What happens when the label that was supposed to help… only made things worse? In this debut episode of Psychiatry, Rewritten — The Gray Area, Laine shares a raw, reflective story about being diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder — and the damage that followed. From stigma to...
About this show
Exploring the spaces between labels, lives, and healing.Hosted by Laine — a psychiatric nurse practitioner with lived experience — Psychiatry, Rewritten challenges the way we talk about mental health. With honest stories and real conversations, it explores the gray areas between symptoms and identity, diagnosis and humanity. Because healing isn’t linear, and the truth isn’t always clinical.This is where the rewrite begins.
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