True Anon Truth Feed - [PREVIEW] Episode 280: Totally Nuts
Aired: 2023-03-30
Duration: 04:56


=== Why We Can't Talk About Mental Health (04:56) ===

[00:00:00]  SHOP, WATCH, LISTEN, PLAY, REPEAT.
[00:00:03]  MOTHER!
[00:00:28]  Is that your dancing?
[00:00:30]  Let me try it.
[00:00:32]  Wait, no.
[00:00:36]  I think Vice were like, Moldova.
[00:00:42]  Like I said, I think it's a little rounder.
[00:00:44]  It is.
[00:00:44]  I can't do it.
[00:00:45]  I have, like, I actually have one of the world's worst singing voices.
[00:00:51]  Like, I can't, I can't be in tune.
[00:00:54]  Can you do a little tune for me right now?
[00:00:57]  Let me see.
[00:00:59]  Yeah, I can do it.
[00:01:00]  Liz, I hear you calling.
[00:01:04]  But I can't come home right now.
[00:01:08]  Me and the boys are playing.
[00:01:11]  And we just can't find that sound.
[00:01:16]  Just a few more hours and I'll go record with you.
[00:01:22]  Oh, man.
[00:01:23]  Liz, I hear them calling.
[00:01:27]  Oh, Liz, what can I do?
[00:01:30]  Liz, what can I do?
[00:01:34]  I think that was pretty good.
[00:01:35]  That was pretty good.
[00:01:36]  Hello, everyone.
[00:01:37]  Hello.
[00:01:38]  That's Brace.
[00:01:40]  And I'm Liz.
[00:01:43]  And of course, we are joined by our very own Peter Chris Yarn Chomsky.
[00:01:50]  And this is Druidon.
[00:01:51]  Hello, everyone.
[00:01:52]  Kiss Edition.
[00:01:56]  We got another episode for you today.
[00:01:58]  Yeah, we got a freaky, funky little one, huh?
[00:02:00]  Yeah, I'm not even going to say anything.
[00:02:02]  We talk about every, you know what?
[00:02:04]  This is a wide-ranging discussion.
[00:02:06]  We talk about trauma.
[00:02:08]  We talk about addiction.
[00:02:09]  We talk about the internet.
[00:02:10]  We talk about art.
[00:02:12]  We talk about writing.
[00:02:13]  We talk about...
[00:02:15]  Selling.
[00:02:15]  Selling.
[00:02:16]  We talk about generations.
[00:02:19]  We talk about- We talk about mental health awareness.
[00:02:22]  Yes, this is kind of, you know what?
[00:02:24]  Low-key?
[00:02:25]  This is a mental health awareness episode.
[00:02:27]  Yeah.
[00:02:28]  It's a little out of pocket.
[00:02:30]  I like it.
[00:02:30]  Yeah, I liked it too.
[00:02:32]  I was a little nervous because I feel like I'm just so used to making other people aware of their mental health that to me, this was a bit of a change.
[00:02:40]  But no, this was, I feel, I had a good time doing this.
[00:02:42]  Yeah, so let's get into it.
[00:02:56]  All right, ladies and gentlemen, we have with us today inside the bunker Brad Phillips, an artist and a writer who wrote a book that I really liked called Fiction and Essays or Essays and Fiction?
[00:03:11]  The last one.
[00:03:12]  Essays in Fiction.
[00:03:13]  Well, they're both both words are in there.
[00:03:14]  Because you didn't like it that much.
[00:03:16]  Well, anyway, I'm not looking at the cover.
[00:03:20]  I know, yeah, I do have it with me because I was checking before we fucking recorded.
[00:03:25]  Hello, welcome to the show.
[00:03:26]  Thanks for having me.
[00:03:28]  Thanks for coming down here.
[00:03:29]  Thank you.
[00:03:30]  So I want to talk to you.
[00:03:32]  I brought you on the show, or bringing you on the show basically, because there's a couple of things in the book I found pretty curious.
[00:03:38]  One was, I think it's called Proposal for a Medical Memoir.
[00:03:41]  Yep.
[00:03:42]  It's an essay, or that one qualifies as an essay.
[00:03:44]  Yeah, they're all short stories.
[00:03:46]  Yeah, okay.
[00:03:46]  Well, it's an essay-like short story.
[00:03:48]  Okay.
[00:03:49]  And basically, it's about being nuts and all fucked up.
[00:03:53]  That's correct.
[00:03:54]  Would you say that that is the case?
[00:03:56]  I agree.
[00:03:56]  Yeah.
[00:03:57]  And there's a lot in it about what you call somatoform disorders.
[00:04:02]  Somatoform disorders.
[00:04:03]  Yeah.
[00:04:04]  Did you know about this?
[00:04:05]  Yeah.
[00:04:06]  I mean, we've kind of talked a little bit about them sort of on the show.
[00:04:10]  I feel like the TikTok.
[00:04:12]  Yeah, when we were talking about it.
[00:04:13]  Did you know about TikTok disorders and kind of like, I don't know how else to like, they're like basically internet-diffused, like psychiatric presentations of things like Tourette's.
[00:04:29]  Yeah.
[00:04:29]  But people who certainly don't have Tourette.
[00:04:33]  But then do they?
[00:04:33]  So we've kind of, that's like more like functional, I guess what you would call like functional disorders.
[00:04:38]  Yeah.
[00:04:39]  But we haven't really talked specifically about the phenomenon, which is like increasingly becoming, I don't know, this sounds like a very Trump thing.
[00:04:47]  More and more, being recognized more and more.
[00:04:50]  Yeah.
[00:04:51]  Yeah.
[00:04:52]  I don't know what's going on, but I don't, like, I don't look at TikTok.