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The Dysregulated Podcast — 241 episodes
Forged in Steel: Memories From God’s Country
Wrestling With Anxiety: Borrowing Confidence To Ease The Mind
Driving Through Life With The Handbrake On: Anxiety, ADHD and The Things I Can't Seem To Do
Loneliness, Long Hauls and Sacrifice: Is This The Price Of Purpose?
Highway Confessions: Facing Our Mortality
Six Weeks Of Panic: Chasing Purpose While Battling An Anxious Firestorm
From Mental Health to Road Transport: My Return to the Freight Game
Highway Confessions: The Thoughts I Can’t Outrun
Translating Mental Health: Supporting Each Other When the System Falters
Crowds, Panic and Rising Above: Autism, Social Anxiety and the Newcastle Knights
Panic On The Motorway: Driving Through Anxiety
When Love Meets BPD: Guilt, Growth & A Way Forward
How Breathwork Changed The Game - Jay | The Energy Alchemist (Intake Interviews)
All or Nothing Energy: BPD, ADHD With No Baseline
Dysregulated Daily: My Mental Health Journal of Mood and Capacity
Choosing Purpose: Turning Bad Days Into A Blueprint For Hope
Fortnightly Check-In #53 - Recording Through Perfectionism Loops
Navigating Inspiration, Dysregulation and Mania (Bipolar, BPD, ADHD And Anxiety Cluster)
Swallowing My Social Anxiety Disorder
Strike While the Dopamine’s HOT: Capitalising on Momentum
When Anxiety, Perfectionism, (And My Inner Critic) Gets In the Way
Teen Mental Health Matters: How to Support Young People Through Change (Black Dog Institute)
Perfectionism, Imposter Syndrome, and Hitting Record Anyway
Chasing Perfection: Why My Inner Critic Is Wrong
Fortnightly Check-In #52 - Media Blitz
Medication Emergency: Three Weeks Without ADHD Stimulants
My Therapy Reflections #12 - Bewildered and Bemused
Fortnightly Check-In #51 - Intake Interviews, Q&A Sessions, Better Left Said
In Conversation With...#1 - Holly
The Q&A Sessions: An Introduction
When Self-Advocacy Faulters: Reflecting on My Psychiatic Journey
Fortnightly Check-In #50 - Pushing Through Depression And Anxiety
When ELLIOT Hits Back! Tackling Social Anxiety Head-On
When Social Anxiety Hits Back: Footy, Fear and Finding My Voice
Fortnightly Check-In #49 - Complications Towards Recovery
My Psychiatry Review - Unexpected Outcomes
Fortnightly Check-In #48 - The Date Is Set
Finding Hope in the Mental Health System
My Therapy Reflections #11 - When Hope Runs Out (Almost)
My Therapy Reflections #10 - Stimulants, Sleep Deprivation and Splitting (BPD)
Fortnightly Check-In #47 - Perfectionism and Frustration
Breaking Point: Becoming The Squeaky Wheel
The Discharge Papers #8 - My Pleas For Help During a Mental Health Crisis
The 4AM Wakeup: Winter’s Grip On My Mental Health
Fortnightly Check-In #46 - When Winter Rains Lash My Mental Health
DBT Skills: Opposite Action
Mental Health in Limbo: Trying to Force the Issue
Back to the Mater: Searching for Answers
Fortnightly Check-In #45 - Still Waiting
My Therapy Reflections #9 - Befriending My Inner Critic (Internal Family Systems)
Overwhelmed And Fatigued: Mood Swings And Emotional Dysregulation
Fortnightly Check-In #44 - The Waiting Game
My Plea for a Medication Reset
My Journal #6 - The Pressure Builds
Fortnightly Check-In #43 - Road Trips, CBD Oil and the Knights
When Anxiety Terrifies Me
DBT Skills: Pros and Cons
Fortnightly Check-In #42 - The Battle Against Anxiety Rages On
My First Kiss: Igniting Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD, Self Esteem and Insecurity)
My Therapy Reflections #8 (Part B) – The Workaholic Under Threat
Running Scared: Fighting Through Anxiety
My Therapy Reflections #8 (Part A) - Dysregulated Emotions and Anxious Thoughts
NSW Mental Health Crisis
Those Dexy Blues: Limitations of ADHD Medication (Anxiety and Dysphoria)
Fortnightly Check-In #41 - Negative Warning Signs
Seroquel Shutdown: Sleeplessness, Dependency and the Workaholic Within
Inspired by Nothing: When Motivating Emotions Disappear
Fortnightly Check-In #40 - My Black Eye
Harnessing My ANGER: Turning Frustration into Fuel for Change
Fortnightly Check-In #39 - Crawling Towards the New Year
'24 Medication Review
Fortnightly Check-in #38 - Winding Down
Beyond the Bottle #7 - Stumbling and Relapse
Putting a Lid on Extreme Emotions
Building Better - Working Around My ADHD
Intake Interviews #3 - Holly’s Journey of Survival and Hope
My Therapy Reflections #7 - The Cognitive Overthinker (Internal Family Systems & EMDR)
Fortnightly Check-in #37 - Annual Leave With My Anxiety
Locking In My Fundamentals: Two Weeks to Renewed Mental Clarity
Fortnightly Check-In #36 - Capacity Issues
Ramping Up the Pressure on My ADHD
My Therapy Reflections #6 - Dissociative Confusion
Fortnightly Check-In #35 - Undefined Anxiety Attack
Intake Interviews #2 - Stell (Part 2): A Brighter Outlook on Life and Motherhood
Finding Focus Again: My Shift Back to Vyvanse
My Therapy Reflections #5 – Guests at the Dinner Table (Internal Family Systems)
Intake Interviews #1 - Estelle (Part 1): Motherhood, Mental Illness and Resilience
Introducing the Intake Interviews: Real Stories of Lived Experience
ADHD and Me: First Impressions Of My New Psychiatrist
The Psych Ward Stories: The Fear of Loneliness
My Therapy Reflections #4 - EMDR and My Internal Family
Oasis Mania: From Anxious Catastrophe to Cautious Elation
Bed Ridden: Days Of Severe Depression
Fortnightly Check-In #34
Hyper-Fixation Madness: ADHD In Control
The Psych Ward Stories: Antipsychotic Medication Miracle
Mood Slow Down - Depression And Panic Sweats
Measuring My Stress and Worry: Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)
My Therapy Reflections #3 - Dissociative Amnesia
My Therapy Reflections #2
Embracing Chaos: Therapy, Advocacy, and New Beginnings
Fortnightly Check-In #33 (part B) - Lungs Are Burnin’
Fortnightly Check-In #33 - Weighed Down
Beyond the Bottle #6 - Six Months
Three Days of Darkness: Depression Sets In
Banned From the Zoo (Almost): Lions And Autism
One Down, Plenty to Go: Tapering Off Medications
Bipolar Warning Signs: Is This Mania?
Fortnightly Check-In #32 - Withdrawals Taking Hold
A Perfect Storm: Withdrawals and COVID
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
My Tapering Plan
Fortnightly Check-In #31 - Time to Taper
Beyond the Bottle #5 - Married to the Drink
Fortnightly Check-In #30 - Brain Zaps and Weddings
A Time for Reflection: Alumni Award Nomination
Beyond the Bottle #4 - First Dates
Pride of the Hunter: Tackling Social Anxiety Disorder
Fortnightly Check-In #29 - No Sweat
Beyond the Bottle #3: The First Big Test
Strung Out: Fatigued and No Sleep
Fortnightly Check-In #28 - Back to Normality
Never Backing Down: Healthy Habits And Resilience
Catastrophic Meltdown: An Acute Mental Health Crisis
Fortnightly Check-In #27 - Transitional Leave
Kava, Loopholes and Mental Fitness
Time To Pause: Focusing On My Psychiatric Ward Admission
Humbled by Boredom
Breaking the Rules
Fortnightly Check-In #26
A Depressive Episode in Real-Time
Fortnightly Check-In #25 - Maintaining My Alcohol Free Zone
Beyond the Bottle #2: - Welcoming the New Year Sober
2023 Report Card
Fortnightly Check-In #24 - Full Steam Ahead
Beyond the Bottle #1
The Discharge Papers #7
Fortnightly Check-In #23 - Spotify Wrapped
Anxiety Attack Continues
Going Dark: Alcohol Fuelled Anxiety
Wedding or Alarm Bells? My Xanax Fuelled Manic Episode
My Healthy Coping Strategies
Fortnightly Check-In #22 - Falling Down
My Therapy Reflections #1
Happy Birthday to Me
Fortnightly Check-in #21 - Steady as She Goes
My Return to Therapy (Again)
Presenting for the Black Dog Institute
For My Fifteen Year-Old Self
Fortnightly Check-In #20 - Maximum Capacity
A Win Against Social Anxiety Disorder
Fortnightly Check-In #19 - Night Terrors
My Fear of Google Calendar (ADHD, Generalised Anxiety And Panic)
Staying the Course: Social Pressure And Sobriety
Fortnightly Check-In #18 - Run For Your Life
In the Throes of Generalised Anxiety Disorder And Panic Attacks
In the Throes of Depression And Negative Emotions
Borderline Personality And Depression: Sinking Into a Dysregulated Emotional Abyss (BPD)
Needing Early Wins
The Lost Days: Disassociating Through Work And Despair
Fortnightly Check-In #17 - Short Supply
Post-Show Euphoria: Presenting For The Black Dog Institute
Pre-Show Jitters: Presenting For The Black Dog Institute
Fortnightly Check-In #16
Rock N Roll Star: Identity Disturbance and BPD
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Everything’s Clunky
My BPD Siege Mentality: Controlling My Anger
Fortnightly Check-In #15 - Not Depressed, but Very Flat Indeed
Running With My Inner Critic
Fortnightly Check-In #14 - Habit Building
Trade-offs: Medications, Side Effects And Improved Mood
My Great Comeback: Returning From The Psychiatric Ward
Taking The Next Step
My Return to Therapy
The Psych Ward Stories: Medication Changes
The Discharge Papers #5 - Psychiatric Emergency
Fortnightly Check-In #13 - Clinical Review
Those I've Lost Along the Way
My Journal #5
My Return to Hospital: Intermediate Stay Mental Health Unit
Sleep Deprived: Compounding The Suffering From Mental Illness
Referral Letter - Intermediate Stay Mental Health Unit (Psychiatric Ward)
DBT Skills: Wise Mind
Fortnightly Check-In #12 - Return to hospital?
My Living Hell: My Battle With Severe Mental Illness
Medication Overhaul (Upgrading To Tricyclic Antidepressants)
Fortnightly Check-In #11 - Feeling Flat
DBT Skills: Radical Acceptance
Powering into 2023
Introduction to Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
Fortnightly Check-In #10 - The Tide is Turning
My Inattentive ADHD
5000 Hits of Dopamine
The Discharge Papers #4
The Psych Ward Stories: Withdrawals
The Psych Ward Stories: Sweating Bullets
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
In Brief: Aspergers, ADHD and me
The Psych Ward Stories: It begins
Ready to Turn This Ship Around
The BPD, OCD and Depression Model
Admissions Referral Letter
Obsessive Intrusive Thoughts
Rolling With The Punches
Back from the Brink
My Empty Fuel Tank
Hitting the Limit
Fortnightly Check-In #9
The Discharge Papers #3
The Anxiety Trifecta
Fortnightly Check-In #8
Caffeine Use Disorder
Fortnightly Check-In #7 - Grappling with Anhedonia
Cognitive Distancing: How to Separate from Negative Thoughts
The Discharge Papers #2
Fortnightly Check-In #6 - Still sick, but still pushing ahead!
Fortnightly Check-In #5 - The Physical and Mental Health Relationship
Fortnightly Check-In #4
Left vs Right Brain part 2: Left-Focused Therapies (CBT & DBT)
Fortnightly Check-In #3
My Journal #4 and The Discharge Papers #1
My Struggle with Rejection Sensitivity
Fortnightly Check-In #2
Treatment Resistant Disorders
Fortnightly Check-In #1
Left vs Right Brain part 1: Theory, Behaviours and Personality
New Year, New Me
My Greatest Honour
The Anxiety Twins
My Journal #3
D-Day: Part B - the Thesis submission
My Journal #2
Mental Illness: Just in our head?
D-Day: Part A - Procrastination and Avoidance
ABC Newcastle Radio Interview
Run Elliot, run!
My Journal #1
Town Hall Presentation - Kiama NSW
Expert Insights: Repetitive Negative Thinking
The Psych Ward, Dianne and me.