Disorderland

By Dr. Ayesha Khan & Jesse Meadows
Disorderland

Take a ride through the weird and terrible world of capitalist mental health disorderland.substack.com

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  1. E08: Horror Therapy

    31/10/2022

    E08: Horror Therapy

    Tidings, ghouls! Gather round to listen to a demon (Jess) and a demon clown (Ayesha) discuss a shared love of horror. We talk about how microdosing on fear through film can be grounding, how the genre uses disability and madness for cheap shock value, movies that subvert those shitty tropes, and all the big, existential questions horror movies ask us to grapple with. !! SPOILERS FOR: Hereditary, Grave Encounters, War of the Worlds, The Babadook, The Power Show Notes * More on Jesse’s Self-(S)care Routine * Ayesha’s post on microdosing change * Horrible Heroes: Liberating Alternative Visions of Disability in Horror by Melinda Hall (the paper Jess mentioned in Disability Studies Quarterly) “horror fiction presents the opportunity to dis-identify with ableist culture. Horror, when it distances the audience from what is taken as the natural order, may also allow us to encounter disability differently. Indeed, it can allow us to be horrified by ableism” “A horror audience ideally identifies with protagonists and is horrified by what those characters find horrifying. In the work of both Burton and King, the audience is drawn to identify with the traditional outsider, the person rejected by the social world or considered interstitial and unnatural. This outsider sees the decaying and deadening communities around them as the terror.” “If we fail to accept vulnerability and incorporate it into our understanding of political communities, disability will always be the monster under the bed. Ironically, the horror genre, by posing new monsters in the social and its exclusions, can provide a ladder to grander inclusion. Empathizing with "monsters" for whom exclusion is typical, draws the vulnerable forward and prepares us to challenge ableism politically.” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit disorderland.substack.com

    51 min
  2. E02: Kill the Executive In Your Head w/ Marta Rose

    18/04/2022

    E02: Kill the Executive In Your Head w/ Marta Rose

    Is executive function “a set of capitalist values masquerading as skills”? Neurodivergent educator and artist Marta Rose thinks so! We sat down with her to talk about: * her journey from diagnosis to critical disability theory * how creativity research and design thinking can offer us alternatives to the pathologizing framework of executive function * The ADHD Industrial Complex!!! * how much of our “symptoms” are actually just shame & trauma * what it’s like to build community on the internet Plus: a new segment we’re calling What’s Hot in Disorderland, where we talk a little shit about the latest psych news! This week, we discuss a survey that found the richest countries have the worst mental health, take the world’s most depressing personality quiz, and Ayesha explains why the DSM continues to be so damn vague.  Timestamps: 2:28 Mad in America report about mental state of the world 4:56 The Mental Well-being Test 12:47 New DSM version 25:09 The vagueness of diagnoses is on purpose 31:00 Interview with Marta 34:30 Creativity research vs executive dysfunction 45:30 Marta’s diagnosis story 53:04 Design thinking 1:02:00 How shame gets pathologized 1:11:00 The ADHD Industrial Complex 1:18:10 Marta’s digital peer support work 1:25:00 The perils of parasocial relationships 1:29:00 Social media is for finding each other Connect With Us: Check out Marta’s livestreams on The Spiral Lab Join Marta’s digital peer support group Divergent Design Studios Subscribe to get Disorderland in your inbox Follow Ayesha (@wokescientist / Cosmic Anarchy) and Jesse (@queervengeance / Sluggish) Follow the pod on IG or email us at disorderland@gmail.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit disorderland.substack.com

    1 h y 34 min
  3. E01: Pathologize Me, TikTok

    28/03/2022

    E01: Pathologize Me, TikTok

    Ayesha and Jess take a stroll through ADHDtok to understand the trend of self-pathologization — why has it become so popular to turn your personality traits into symptoms of disease? What purpose does a psychiatric diagnosis serve, and what are the limitations of defining your mental suffering and anguish solely through a medical lens? Why does capitalism absolutely thrive on all these new mental illness micro-identities? Plus: we get a little personal about our own experiences with diagnosis. FURTHER READING: * Our handy infographic on self-pathologization * Nick Walker on the Pathology Paradigm vs the Neurodiversity Paradigm * You’re Using the Word Neurodiversity Wrong (by Jess) * ADHD: Dopamine Deficiency or a Bodymind Protesting? (also by Jess) * Diagnostic Cultures by Svend Brinkmann * The Buzzfeedification of Mental Health by P.E. Moskowitz CLIPS IN THIS EPISODE: * “Things I thought were personality traits that were just my undiagnosed adhd” by @carlie_chimenti1 * “Welcome to ADHD” by @kayblasko * “#1 Bestseller in Treating Mental Disabilities” by @colbywattsmusic * “The ADHD Coach Connector” by @kamden_adhd * “Is this a cult?” by @malblum !! SUBSCRIBE TO GET COOL EMAILS: disorderland.substack.com ?? SEND US COOL EMAILS ?? disorderland@gmail.com >> CONNECT WITH US Dr. Ayesha Khan: IG: @wokescientist Newsletter: cosmicanarchy.substack.com Jesse Meadows: IG/Twitter: @queervengeance Newsletter: sluggish.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit disorderland.substack.com

    1 h y 8 min
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