Ep 44.5: Unmedicated, Unregulated, and Depressed - Practicing Self Compassion while Anxious

Like most things in life, mental health is not a linear path. There are ups and downs, twists and turns. But we expect ourselves to only get “better” as time goes on. We think that once we “learn” something, we can’t experience that pain or struggle again, beating ourselves over not being better. We forget that we would never ask a friend to just “be better,” so why do we expect ourselves to do that?

Abbie and Antonio discuss inconsistently taking medication, mental health (a lot), anxiety, depression, physical sensations related to emotions, taking credit for your own work, self compassion, throwing away used condoms, internalized homophobia, the holidays, and in general just slowly becoming unhinged by life. (I promise we’re doing okay; we just like to be dramatic on occasion.)