"the analogy that i like: you're like a ship 🚢 out on the ocean 🌊 & your anxiety is your crewmates that are like, hey, iceberg ahead or whatever, trying to give you information. & if you choose to ignore your crewmates, they're gonna stop following orders...& they're gonna get disorderly."
deverde greene
@deverde.bsky.social
mental health advocate. producer of brain fruit podcast. multimedia artist. musician.
new episode of brain fruit 🧠🍎 now available for streaming, my verdurous ones 💚 #mentalhealth #podcast
ever since i read her excellent book, the collected schizophrenias, i've looked up to esme weijun wang as an amazing #mentalhealth role model. here she is via bbc ideas talking about her diagnosis & how to break the stigma youtu.be/vYrkcZTFllk?...
Schizophrenia: Breaking the mental health stigma | BBC Ideas
YouTube video by BBC Ideas
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delightfully unexpected find of the day. thank you @darkentries.bsky.social! satisfying all the broody, spookily dubby, hypnotically rhythmic cravings i wasn't even aware i had #musicsky #postpunk #experimental #industrial eric-random.bandcamp.com/album/a-boy-...
A Boy Alone, by Eric Random
15 track album
eric-random.bandcamp.com
following this & stories like it with outrage. we in the mental health community must stand in solidarity & demand the services we need & deserve www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Trump's policies are destabilizing mental health care for veterans, sources say
The Department of Veterans Affairs is one of the largest providers of mental health care in the U.S. Its integrated care model means patients are already feeling the cuts and changes that are underway...
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when i was first diagnosed #bipolar i scrambled for resources, experiences, accounts - anything that would make the diagnosis explicable & understandable to me. kay redfield jamison's work, especially her book an unquiet mind, was an absolute godsend #mentalhealth youtu.be/J3yvLRQWWuc?...
Healthy Minds | Bipolar Disorder, Part One: A Conversation With Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D.
YouTube video by Connecticut Public
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perhaps it's my early morning stumbling-into-consciousness receptivity, or the breathy vocals or the reedy clarinet washes, but this is giving me abstracted, space-expanded movietone vibes. simply lovely. #ambient #musicsky perilazone.bandcamp.com/album/jazz-p...
Jazz Plates, by Perila and Ulla
13 track album
perilazone.bandcamp.com
listen up, my verdurous ones: the new episode of my #mentalhealth #podcast is out today! it explores the topic of finding mental health role models out there in the world. it's bipolar awareness month, so check out this offering from a bonafide bipolar human! youtu.be/nOL_MpZ4j4o?...
brain fruit | ep. 0.1 | role models
YouTube video by deverde greene
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sometimes i select a record to soundtrack my morning & it syncs so cinematically with my waking consciousness that even tho i am stationary & still i feel utterly transported, delightfully actively-inactive, receptive like an antenna #ambient #musicsky ullastraus.bandcamp.com/album/hometo...
Hometown Girl, by U.e.
12 track album
ullastraus.bandcamp.com
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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what fascinates me about meditation is what also draws me to ambient. each draws awareness to the elasticity of time, its contractions & dilations. time, like water, has no shape. it takes the form of the vessel you place it in #ambient #musicsky #meditation asatone.bandcamp.com/album/ariel-...
Ariel Kalma & Asa Tone - ◯, by Asa Tone
6 track album
asatone.bandcamp.com
starting work on a zine project about my bipolar diagnosis experience. i want to find ways to normalize, demystify & de-mythologize the diagnosis narrative. it's kinda like a coming out story, which i guess could dovetail with how i'm starting to truly embrace my overall queerness 💚💚🧠💚💚
this classic no-wave groover from south bronx legends esg more or less sums up my feelings about the current "administration." what songs in your rotation best encapsulate how you feel? share in the comments plz! #esg #musicsky youtu.be/TfUvZLxnEvI?...
ESG - You're No Good
YouTube video by firerecords
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updated brain fruit podcast cover art from the incomparable jason combs. wow, do these colors really pop & the psychedelic swirls make me swoon!
had an old-fashioned case of the fidgets during this morning's meditation session. luckily, DOVS's latest drumless offering is here to help settle my monkey mind. #ambient #musicsky #meditation balmat.bandcamp.com/album/psychi...
Psychic Geography, by DOVS
9 track album
balmat.bandcamp.com
currently being transported by yazz ahmed's entrancing, global fusion trumpeting while shopping for plane tix for an upcoming cross-country trip. def will be adding this absolute groovefest to future travel playlists #jazz #fusion #musicsky yazzahmed.bandcamp.com/album/a-para...
A Paradise In The Hold, by Yazz Ahmed
10 track album
yazzahmed.bandcamp.com
this is quite likely my favorite thing right now #devo #newwave #musicsky youtu.be/XTNGg0Tj5Aw?...
Devo - Uncontrollable Urge (Live On Fridays)
YouTube video by ShoutFactoryMusic
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fellow bipolar humans, lend me your eyes & ears! are you interested in conversing about world bipolar awareness day/month? all perspectives welcome! worried about privacy? you can speak anonymously or don a nom de plume. you know you want to! #bipolar #mentalhealth #podcast
you don't need fancy gear. you don't need technical expertise. when i started producing i didn't have mics, cool analog synths & drum machines or even a keyboard. i used free instrument vsts & recording software. don't fetishize the tools. focus on the inward need to create & just get started.
just got banned from a bipolar subreddit for reaching out for thoughts about bipolar awareness month. i was diagnosed bipolar 1 in 2012 & now self-produce a mental health podcast for which i am paid $0. how do we "raise awareness" if we can't even talk to each other? #bipolar #mentalhealth #reddit
very stoked to receive my zine from @subvert.fm if you're interested in finding viable alternatives to spotify & other awful streaming media behemoths, i suggest you explore what subvert is trying to build & become a founding member today
sunday post-meditation, pre-quaker silent meeting soundtrack. perila primes us to open up & to evacuate (as a substance from a vessel), to interrogate, to explore. listening as an end in itself👂🎧 #ambient #musicsky #meditation perilazone.bandcamp.com/album/intrin...
Intrinsic Rhythm, by perila
21 track album
perilazone.bandcamp.com
in this debut pilot episode of brain fruit 🧠🍎 i ponder if it's possible that mental health issues might paradoxically be a form of super power 💪 are there ways we neurodiverse people can harness our gifts to enrich the world? youtu.be/USMQ6ktcKyI?... #mentalhealth #podcastsky #podcast
brain fruit | ep. 0.0 | superheroes | pilot
YouTube video by deverde greene
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"scattered throughout harmony/balance are unexpected melodic antiphonies closely aligned with African music, interspersed between huge, spacious drones & field recordings" #ambient #musicsky ibukunsunday.bandcamp.com/album/harmon...
Harmony / Balance, by Ibukun Sunday
10 track album
ibukunsunday.bandcamp.com
what is ambient music? who gets to make it? who is it for? self-described "decomposer" klein takes us on a disorienting journey thru hermetic sound worlds, exploding genres & casting doubt onto the very notion of what "ambient" even is #ambient #musicsky klein1997.bandcamp.com/album/harmat...
Harmattan, by Klein
11 track album
klein1997.bandcamp.com
nexcyia on sound design: "it shapes the...vision, emotional resonance, & overall sonic identity of a track. whether it's enhancing a soundscape, creating unique textures, or building immersive atmospheres [it] is a fundamental tool for me!" #ambient #musicsky nexcyia.bandcamp.com/album/exodus
Exodus, by NEXCYIA
13 track album
nexcyia.bandcamp.com