Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories | Psychotherapy, Psychopharmacology, and Psychedelics
How do we find a way out of the darkest depths of despair? Psychiatrist Dr. Craig Heacock hosts a deep dive into powerfully moving stories of hope and healing, as well as topical explorations of psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, and psychedelics.
Podcasting since 2019 • 149 episodes
Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories | Psychotherapy, Psychopharmacology, and Psychedelics
Latest Episodes
The gasoline and the match— Bipolar disorder, THC, and manic activation
Today’s story is one of genetic predisposition, environmental triggers, and finally a psychiatric flame thrower. Whitney’s uncle had a particularly severe form of bipolar disorder and she too began to develop mood instability and depressi...
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Season 7
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Episode 15
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49:06
How can we actually prevent suicide? Guns, access to means, and the hope of Donna's Law
The US has a major suicide problem, around 50,000 people every year, and 60% of these suicides are gun suicides. The number one risk factor for completed suicide is not depression or anxiety or addiction….it’s access to means, and it turns out ...
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Season 7
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Episode 14
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A somatic therapist and her apprenticeship of grief
Today’s story explores how we love, how we grieve, and how we eventually find some sort of equilibrium thereafter. This episode is a heartbreaking, yet beautiful story by Colorado-based somatic therapist Darci Meyers about her journey through m...
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Season 7
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Episode 13
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1:04:50
A gift of therapy- Discovering the wisdom of the body
Kari reconnected with her birth mother in her 40s and finally began to understand the suffering for which she had no words. This is a story of adoption and reunification, of forgetting and remembering, of finding a truth without words in the wi...
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Season 7
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Episode 12
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47:52
A Nurse + Grief + Alcohol + Adderall— Finding Hope for Healers
Kate started her addiction journey at a young age, using substances as a salve for her terrible grief. Later, drugs and alcohol helped her to cope with the transition to nursing and the unending demands of a hospital setting. But as with ...
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Season 7
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Episode 11
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1:04:48