Mental Health is Horrifying
Journey into the horrifying depths with Candis Green, Registered Psychotherapist, (and all around spooky ghoul), as she explores how horror is really a mirror into ourselves.
If you're someone who watches horror movies and thinks — that nasty old well that Samara climbs out of in The Ring is really a metaphor for her grief — or Ghostface at his core is a spectre of intergenerational trauma... then tune in to explore how mental health themes are portrayed in your favourite horror movies and beyond.
Mental Health is Horrifying
Treehouse of Horror VI: Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores — The Overstimulation Crisis
In this episode, I explore the overstimulation crisis that we currently find ourselves in as portrayed through The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror VI: Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores (1995).
Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, Registered Psychotherapist and owner of Many Moons Therapy.
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Want to work together? I offer 1:1 psychotherapy both virtually (Ontario) and in-person (Toronto), along with tarot, horror, and dreamwork services (anywhere my bat signal reaches), both individually and through my group program, the Final Girls Club.
Podcast artwork by Chloe Hurst at Contempo Mint
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
Why We Overstimulate Ourselves: How Sensory Overload Blocks Memory and Weakens Learning by Yasuaki Sawamura
Farooqui, Quratulain, and Amana Raquib. "Technology, boredom and intellectual-spiritual lethargy: Exploring the impact of technology on the mental well-being of over-Stimulated millennials." Malaysian Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences 16.11 (2020): 1-7.
Robson, G.J. The threat of comprehensive overstimulation in modern societies. Ethics Inf Technology 19, 69–80 (2017).
