Brain Trash: Psychiatry from DSM to Dumpster Fire

By Maria Ingalla & Tabitha Arey

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Episodes: 20

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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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Episode Date
Why Getting an Autism Diagnosis Is Harder Than It Should Be
Mar 17, 2026
ADHD, HRT and Menopause: When Hormones Hijack Mental Health
Dec 19, 2025
Postpartum Isn’t Just “Baby Blues”: The Neurodivergent Edition
Dec 12, 2025
Hormones Are Doing Side Quests: Understanding Your Cycle & Your Brain
Dec 05, 2025
Psychedelics in Psychiatry: Promise vs. Proof
Sep 15, 2025
The Wild West of Ketamine: Ethics, Insights, and Integration
Sep 08, 2025
Dispensary Roulette: Why Cannabis Isn’t One-Size-Fits-All
Sep 01, 2025
“I Want to Rip My Skin Off”: Sensory Hell and Sex
Jul 29, 2025
The Safe Word is "Consent": The Psychology of Autism and Sex
Jul 22, 2025
Autism and Sex: Myths, Consent and Neurodivergent Intimacy
Jul 15, 2025
Bedtime Battles: Autistic Sleep Demystified
May 20, 2025
ICD, DSM, WTF: Decoding the Chaos of Mental Health Diagnoses
May 13, 2025
A Professional Deep Dive on the Autism Registry
May 06, 2025
From Clumsy to Misdiagnosed: The Reality of Dyspraxia
Apr 14, 2025
When National Child Abuse Prevention Month is Actually Increasing Suicide Among Kids
Apr 07, 2025
Psych Meds: Yearbook Edition
Mar 24, 2025
Are Your Medications Safe? The Reality of Make America Healthy Again
Mar 19, 2025
Linking Ehlers Danlos and POTS to Neurodivergence
Mar 11, 2025
Diagnosing Autism in Psychiatry: It’s Giving ‘You Don’t Look Autistic'
Feb 25, 2025
TikTok vs. Psychiatry: Who’s Really Getting Neurodivergence Right?
Feb 17, 2025