Reality Tourists
By Reality Tourists
This is a podcast about psychosis. Rarely spoken about, psychosis is often hidden out of sight in the mental health conversation, we hope this podcast will throw it into the limelight and get people talking about one of the most stigmatised mental illness symptoms.
Due to the nature of psychosis we will probably cover some fairly serious topics in this podcast. Trigger warning for topics such as psychosis, suicide attempts, self-harm, eating disorders and other similar areas. Please only listen if you feel you are in the right mindset to hear about these kinds of issues.
Due to the nature of psychosis we will probably cover some fairly serious topics in this podcast. Trigger warning for topics such as psychosis, suicide attempts, self-harm, eating disorders and other similar areas. Please only listen if you feel you are in the right mindset to hear about these kinds of issues.
Latest episode
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Mental Illness and Medication
Yes it's a filler episode because I am behind on my editing :P Today Yvette and Hazel discuss the relitively contriversal topic of medication -
Bipolar and the Edinburgh Fringe
Today we are privilaged to be speaking to Natasha whoch has just finished preforming her one woman show (Me, Myself and Bipolar Brenda), w… -
Hypersexuality in mania - "let's talk about sex"
welcome to what may well be our most embarassing episode... In this episode Hazel and Yvette talk about they way sex is veiwed in society, wonder about any differences between the experiences … -
New Format!!!
WE'RE BACK!!! Hi, guys, Reality Tourists is back with a whole new format, now there's 2 of us. Today we are doing a very quicj intro to us and the new format, and then usual se… -
Series 3 ad
We are back (or we will be VERY soon) and we are here to talk about the areas of mental illness that are often left out of the conversation. Get in touch with your suggestions and requests for topics, or if you are interested in being a gues… -
Online screening tests
In todays episode I will be taking several online screening tests for psychosis related conditions, just to see what's involved and out of curiosity to see how accurate they are. Ok, yes, it is a filler episode... I hope you still fi… -
"Schizophrenia is multiple personalities" - psychosis Vs dissociation
There is a common misconception that "schizophrenia is multiple personalities" so in todays guest myself and my guest will discuss our experiences of psychosis and dissociation to try to figure out where we are the same and… -
Schizophrenia, dissociation, stigma, and media portrayal
Today we have a return guest as Tiffany is back from episode 2 "growing up with schizophrenia" This episode was meant to be about the misconcep… -
Psychosis and relationships - Valentines Day Special
In this (late) Valentines Day Speical epsidoe I am speaking to Pat about both his book and his experiences of being married to someone who experienced psychosis. We talk about the stigma, we talk about the feeling of helplessness and panic, … -
Bipolar, OCD and being "high functioning"
Today I am chatting with Mel ( @BipolarNerdGirl ) about her experiences of both bipolar and OCD along with why she started blogging and the difficutlies she's had in gaining support while being deemed as "high functioning"
