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Brain Trash: Psychiatry from DSM to Dumpster Fire

Maria Ingalla & Tabitha Arey
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Welcome to Brain Trash, where we rip off the sugar-coated filter and talk about the raw, messy, and frustrating realities of psychiatry. Hosted by psychiatric nurse practitioners who know the system inside and out, this podcast is for clinicians tired of textbook psychiatry BS and everyday people trying to make sense of their mental health.


💊 Overdiagnosis. Self-diagnosis. Medications that help. Medications that ruin lives. The DSM. The WTFs of mental health. If you’ve ever side-eyed a diagnosis, questioned your meds, or felt like the system was failing you—you're not alone.

No gatekeeping. No corporate-sanitized psychiatry. Just honest, unfiltered conversations about neurodivergence, trauma, the cracks in the system, and what we need to do differently.


🔥 If you’ve ever felt dismissed by a mental health provider or questioned the way we do this—hit subscribe. Let’s rethink psychiatry together.


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10 episodes  •  0 archived  •  
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Bedtime Battles: Autistic Sleep Demystified
S1 E10·
May 20
May 20
25 mins
S1 E9
ICD, DSM, WTF: Decoding the Chaos of Mental Health Diagnoses
S1 E9·
May 13
May 13
22 mins
S1 E8
A Professional Deep Dive on the Autism Registry
S1 E8·
May 6
May 6
19 mins
S1 E7
From Clumsy to Misdiagnosed: The Reality of Dyspraxia
S1 E7·
April 14
April 14
33 mins
S1 E6
When National Child Abuse Prevention Month is Actually Increasing Suicide Among Kids
S1 E6·
April 7
April 7
31 mins
S1 E5
Psych Meds: Yearbook Edition
S1 E5·
March 24
March 24
22 mins
S1 E4
Are Your Medications Safe? The Reality of Make America Healthy Again
S1 E4·
March 19
March 19
38 mins
S1 E3
Linking Ehlers Danlos and POTS to Neurodivergence
S1 E3·
March 11
March 11
25 mins
S1 E2
Diagnosing Autism in Psychiatry: It’s Giving ‘You Don’t Look Autistic'
S1 E2·
February 25
February 25
44 mins