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in this NSW episode of deverde greene's psychedelic mental health podcast brain fruit, deverde interviews their friend carrie about the delectable topic of dating as a neurodiverse person during covid quarantine. Topics discussed include: dating, romance, love, lust, sex positivity, anxiety, sobriety, marriage, divorce, tourette syndrome & so much more.

brain fruit | ep. 01 | dating

in this solo pilot episode of deverde green’s psychedelic podcast brain fruit, deverde walks listeners through the podcast’s prehistory and humble origin story before launching into a discussion about whether bipolar disorder, or really any mental health condition, might actually be considered a kind of superpower. topics discussed include: bipolar disorder, neurodiversity, podcast recording and production, culture jamming, the X-Men character Cyclops, disability & so much more. 

brain fruit | ep. 0.0 | superheroes

in this solo episode of deverde greene’s mental health podcast brain fruit, deverde explores the concept of discovering mental health role models, identifying people in the mental health community to look up to & representations of mentally ill people in the media. the episode also debuts deverde’s psychedelic emotional weather forecasting concept the moodcast. topics discussed include: vintage patient interviews, esme weijun wang’s book the collected schizophrenias, mass shootings in america, the tendency to blame mentally ill people for violence & so much more.      

brain fruit | ep. 0.1 | role models

in this special mother’s day edition of deverde greene’s mental health podcast brain fruit, deverde conducts the show’s first ever interview with their own mom. 

with banh mi sandwiches and some shiny new recording gear in tow, deverde ventures out to the atlanta suburbs where they grew up to have an intimate conversation with their mom. the pair discusses deverde’s childhood eccentricities — like creating a cartoony, other-worldly alternate persona and sporting the nickname “mopey” throughout high school — and take a deep dive into how deverde’s bipolar diagnosis and subsequent psychiatric hospitalization affected the family. 

along the way, this mother-child duo investigates with tenderness and curiosity shifting generational attitudes about mental health, the subtle (and not so subtle) ways that mental health conditions influence family dynamics, the terminology we use to refer to people living with mental illness, & the complexities of sharing diagnosis stories outside the family unit. 

Topics discussed include: families, parent-child relationships, mood disorders, psychiatric diagnosis and hospitalization, bipolar disorder and manic-depressive illness, & so much more. 

this episode was originally produced in fall 2019. it has been remastered and includes a new introduction by deverde.

brain fruit | ep. 0.2 | moms

in this sonically constructive episode of deverde greene’s mental health podcast brain fruit, deverde shares the mic with former sports journalist & current mental health advocate Derek Dueker, creator & host of the Show My Scars podcast (https://showmyscars.com/). after meeting Derek online, deverde invited derek down to the aural mind garden so the duo could discuss how mental health struggles — especially in Derek’s case anxiety, depression and panic attacks — have influenced the course of their lives & how they have repeatedly reshaped & refashioned themselves in the wake of all manner of setbacks, stumbling blocks & calamities of both the major & minor variety. 

listeners follow Derek from his small-town origins in Missouri to his first professional flowering as an award-winning sports journalist who profiles young division-1-bound players as the sports they have dedicated their lives to transform them. but at the height of his career as a sportswriter, Derek’s life falls apart & he is forced finally to reckon with the persistent, overwhelming & often debilitating mental health challenges that appeared even in Derek’s childhood. at first devastating, this bottoming out in time becomes the source of Derek’s own metamorphosis as he overcomes mental health imposter syndrome, begins receiving treatment & embarks on a new path of self-discovery as a meditation practitioner & instructor-in-training. 

it's all too common to discuss mental health challenges as purely destructive forces that wreak havoc on people’s lives via loneliness, alienation, addiction, self-sabotage, emotional pain & suffering, etc. but these narratives also neglect the fact that so many people engage in the ongoing project of rebuilding themselves, refurbishing and retrofitting the very foundations of their existences, everyday in the aftermath of mental health episodes & the general difficulties of life no matter how large or small. Derek’s is just one such story of how to tackle this great, mysterious, fixer upper project that we call life.                  

topics discussed include: depression, anxiety, panic attacks, sports journalism, imposter syndrome, accessing mental health care, meditation, Deborah Norris’s Mindfulness Center & the Science of Mindful Awareness program & so much more.  

brain fruit | ep. 02 | rebuilding

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