The Dark Place: Conversations About Mental Health | Depression | Anxiety
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The Dark Place: Conversations About Mental Health | Depression | Anxiety
A shame-free space where people talk about how they care for their mental and emotional health. Common topics include anxiety, depression, and mindfulness. No matter the story, it will be met with compassion. Engage with the show and host Joel Kutz online at http://darkplace.joelkutz.com Disclaim...
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#42: Todd & Vanessa Steinberg
Todd and Vanessa are the founders of Komuso Design, which sells jewelry engineered to help quiet the mind. They talk about how living a career-driven...
#41: Camille Lowman
Camille Lowman is the founder of Yellow Project, a mental wellness subscription box. Topics include talking to kids about emotions, recovering from ch...
#40: Joanie Barton
The clinical therapist talks about recovering from the trauma and abuse of her childhood, healing herself through art, and practicing patience and gra...
#39: Steve Austin
The writer, life coach, and former youth pastor talks about recovering from being the victim of childhood sexual abuse, his suicide attempt, and his e...
#38: Kevin Hines (+ Listener Dark Places)
Kevin Hines is one of only 36 people to survive a suicide attempt by leaping off the Golden Gate Bridge. In the past 17 years, he has now become an ad...
#37: Laura Thompson
The 23-year-old journalist from Austin, Texas talks about living with anxiety, the experience of having a panic attack, and why "it's better to cry ou...
#36: Being Brave with Jennifer Marshall
The co-founder of mental health storytelling organization This Is My Brave joins to talk about her experience with bipolar disorder, postpartum psycho...
#35: Jameson DeSantis
The 30-year-old talks about helping himself and others through depression and suicidal thoughts. Plus, he gives us a taste of what it would sound like...
#34: Adam Grabowski Says It Anyway
January 1st, 2017: The 29-year-old comedian (America's Got Talent) talks about the loneliness of living life on the road, searching for connection in...
#33: Listener Dark Places
Joel is joined by Katie Habib to read listener-submitted stories for World Suicide Prevention Day. Topics include OCD, sexual abuse, and hospital visi...
#32: "Roominating" with Ranjan Subbiah
Ranjan Subbiah is a 31-year-old living in Toronto. Topics include the ins and outs of medication, using comedy to frame mental illness, and explaining...
#31: Institutional Compassion with Miranda Yaver
Miranda Yaver is a 29-year-old in academia. Topics include the recent loss of her friend to suicide, how her university has responded to her own menta...
#30: Dan Evans-Nakamura Is From The Internet
20-year-old Dan tells us his story. Topics include his contentious relationship with his father, feeling like a burden, and finding his agnosticism.
#29: Armando Flores Is Social Anxiety
Armando Flores, who goes by the stage name "Social Anxiety", is an alternative hip-hop and spoken word artist. He discusses living with paranoid schiz...
#27: Hannah Mansfield
Hannah Mansfield is Joel's guest. She's a teacher and recent college grad, trying to figure out the best way to manage a recent bipolar diagnosis. At...
#26: Amanda Rosenberg
October 8, 2015: Joel talks with Amanda Rosenberg. She's a comedy writer, and she reminds us how healing it is to laugh. (Yay suicide humor!) She also...
#25: Michele Rosenthal
Michele Rosenthal was just 13 when she suffered from a rare allergic reaction that left her a full-body burn victim. For over two decades she suffered...
#24: Cara Santa Maria
Joel chats with 31-year-old Cara Santa Maria, host of the podcast "Talk Nerdy." In this episode, hear how Cara has fought through depression to build...
#22: Jessie Duke
At just 20 years old, Jessie is a badass filmmaker turning her Crohn’s disease diagnosis into a platform for compassion. For this hour she lets hersel...
#21: Emily Wu Truong
Emily is a motivational speaker. Today, she takes a break from baring her deepest insecurities and fears in front of large crowds to bare her deepest...
#20: Lucy Fisher
Joel talks with Lucy, who's 28 years old. Lucy talks about her flight anxiety, about how her dad would use drugs in front of her when she was 12, and...
#19: Tyler Austin
The 23-year-old talks about the panic attack that prompted him to lose 150 pounds, being by someone's side during their final moments, and the reason...
#18: Regrouping
A compilation of four previously-aired conversations, covering bullying, self-harm, death, and emerging from the dark place.
#17: Cameron Louis
In an episode very relatable to those even without mental illness, the 24-year-old radio host and comedian shares his struggles with everyday life. Th...
#16: Listener Dark Places
Joel and Julia share personal stories submitted by listeners. To share your dark place, visit darkplace.joelkutz.com and click "Tell Your Story."
#15: Chris Angel Murphy
The 27-year-old talks about identifying as transgender and genderqueer, the bullying and abuse they experienced growing up, feeling suicidal in foster...
#14: Lizette
The 31-year-old tells her first-hand account of her brother's suicide 11 years ago, the unrelenting flashbacks she experienced, feeling suicidal herse...
#13: Teen Line (A Light Place)
Do you ever feel alone and wish you had someone who could provide a safe space and a listening ear? Chris Angel Murphy from Teen Line discusses the re...
#12: Maddy
The 23-year-old talks about the back-to-back shocking deaths of two important people in her life, the depression that followed, and the impact the los...
#11: Grace
The 38-year-old discusses her lifelong emotional relationship with food, how she's been shaped by having an alcoholic father, and how she has redirect...
#10: Katie
The 21-year-old student talks about using success as a mask for her depression, admitting herself into psychiatric hold, and her recent experience of...
#9: Danny Lee
The 24-year-old talks about the dangers of his own perfectionism, the pattern of negative thinking that led to his suicide attempt, and how he now wor...
#8: Harris Mayersohn
The 22-year-old comedian talks about struggling with body image as an in-shape male, feeling like he can't connect to others, reconciling a lack of me...
#7: Clarisse
The 23-year-old talks about her always-present underlying fear of her parents' death, going on anti-depressants when she wasn't depressed, and “that t...
#6: Julia
The 25-year-old talks about living with an addictive pattern of self-harm, realizing what happened to her as a child was sexual abuse, and getting to...
#5: Tasha Cerny
The 23-year-old aspiring writer talks about finding out her mom had cancer on September 11, 2001, what it’s like to explain anxiety to classmates in h...
#4: Rick Cisario
The 19-year-old comedian and USC screenwriting student talks about being bullied and socially isolated, how his past has influenced his anxiety and de...
#3: Nic Mora
The 24-year-old producer and creator of the blog givememora.com discusses being honest about her anxiety in the Persian Jewish community and how a car...
#2: Josh Woo
The 23-year-old radio producer and many-time game show contestant talks about the panic attacks that began when he believed he ate a toxic piece of bl...
#1: Benji Ng
In the first episode of The Dark Place, the 22-year-old USC Fine Arts student talks about living with depression and suicidal thoughts, coming out as...