The Dysregulated Podcast
Follow my journey through the chaos of mental illness and the hard-fought lessons learned along the way.
Lived experience is at the heart of this podcast — every episode told through my own lens, with raw honesty and zero filter.
This is a genuine and vulnerable account of how multiple psychological disorders have shaped my past and continue to influence my future.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 18 minutes
- Episodes
- 212
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
The Q&A Sessions: An Introduction
Welcome to The Q&A Sessions: Your questions answered! If you have a topic you would like me to cover on the show, this is how to make it happen! Every week I'll select a question/t…
When Self-Advocacy Faulters: Reflecting on My Psychiatic Journey
In this episode, I share what came of my latest psychiatry appointment and honestly, it left me feeling pretty frustrated. Again.
I talk about what it’s like trying to navigate the…
Fortnightly Check-In #50 - Pushing Through Depressive Swings
Follow my journey through the chaos of mental illness and the hard-fought lessons learned along the way.
Lived experience is at the heart of this podcast — every episode told throug…
When ELLIOT Hits Back! Tackling Social Anxiety Head-On
Have you ever had to fight your own mind just to do something you love? In this follow-up episode to "When Social Anxiety Hits Back", I share my win of making it to the Newcastle K…
When Social Anxiety Hits Back: Footy, Fear and Finding My Voice
What happens when the things we love most become casualties of our mental health? Today, I’m facing that question head-on as social anxiety keeps me from the final Newcastle Knight…
Fortnightly Check-In #49 - Complications Towards Recovery
What happens when the mental health system fails those that need it most? In this raw, unfiltered episode, I take you into the depths of my ongoing battle with a mental healthcare …
My Psychiatry Review - Unexpected Outcomes
Finally the moment has arrived, my psychiatry review at James Fletcher hospital. The opportunity to state my case as to why I believe a medication taper and withdrawal is necessary…
Fortnightly Check-In #48 - The Date Is Set
After what’s felt like forever, I finally have a date locked in! I'm seeing a psychiatrist for an appointment to determine the next steps as far as my goal of tapering off all of m…
Hope on the Horizon?
In this episode, I share how the NSW mental health system has picked up my referrals and is starting to piece together a plan to help me move forward. It’s a big relief — and a hin…
My Therapy Reflections #11 - When Hope Runs Out (Almost)
** Content warning: This episode discusses suicide, suicidal ideation, and severe mental health crises. Please take care while listening.
In this episode of The Dysregulated Podcas…
My Therapy Reflections #10 - Fire and Fury
In this episode of My Therapy Reflections, I explore my latest psychology session, which admittedly wasn’t particularly productive. With my mind in overdrive from lack of sleep, st…
Fortnightly Check-In #47 - Perfectionism and Frustration
I've been working on a deeply personal episode about retroactive jealousy, but my inner critic has been relentless in sabotaging my attempts to record it. This is going to be my mo…
Bringing The Noise: Becoming The Squeaky Wheel
In this episode, I share my ongoing battle to getting help from the mental health system in reducing my medication load. And progress continues to be hard to come by.
I share the l…
The Discharge Papers #8 - Breaking Point
The Discharge Papers returns — but not all of it is good news.
In this episode, I read through my latest discharge papers from the Mater Mental Health Hospital, offering an unfilte…
The 4AM Wakeup
Awake up at 4 AM and recording from my car, I'm sharing some thoughts during a tough winter period where both physical illness and mental health challenges have been colliding. Win…
Fortnightly Check-In #46 - Cold and Frozen in Fear
Follow my journey through the chaos of mental illness and the hard-fought lessons learned along the way.
Lived experience is at the heart of this podcast — every episode told throug…
DBT Skills: Opposite Action
Opposite action is a powerful DBT skill that helps us override our automatic emotional responses by choosing behaviours that counter what we're feeling. This skill works by strengt…
Mental Health in Limbo: Trying to Force the Issue
Elliot explores the challenges of being stuck in a "mental health holding pattern", while waiting for professional guidance on medication changes.
• Recounting a recent visit to Mat…
Back to the Mater: Searching for Answers
I’m drenched, exhausted, and dragging myself through the rain—because I’m about to blow. This is a real-time recording, on my phone, just moments before I walked through the doors …
Fortnightly Check-In #45 - Still Waiting
When silence falls on The Dysregulated Podcast, it usually means something's amiss. Today, I'm breaking that silence with a raw, unfiltered check-in from the front seat of my car a…