I've been going mental I'm losing my mind

because you're on and all of the time

I've been going mental but I'm feeling just fine.

Going mental all of the time.

I'm your host Eileen Kelly

and you're listening to the Going Mental podcast.

On today's episode, I am joined by author Emeline Klein, who just released her debut book, Dead Weight, Essays on Hunger and Harm.

She received her MFA from Columbia and lives in New York.

Her writing has been published in the Paris Review,

the Yale Review, New York Times magazine,

the Berlin Quarterly, amongst other publications.

Her chatbook Toxic was published by Chuchu Press in 2022.

In Dead Weight, her debut book,

she recounts her struggle with disordered eating alongside the stories of other women historical figures pop culture celebrities and the girls she's known and loved

This show is sponsored by Better Health

I am a huge advocate of therapy. I have been in some form of it on and off since I was eight years old and there were times in my life where I didn't know if I wanted to be here and the state of my mental health was so dire that I was literally at the point of not functioning.

I am so proud of the hard work I've done in intensive therapy and how far I've come.

And I just really believe that there are many things in life that are out of our control but taking charge of your mental health

does not need to be one of them. I believe that everyone can benefit from

therapy whether it's coming to terms with trauma you've been through learning how to

understand and communicate your emotions better learning boundaries and

working on your friendships, relationships with family, romantic relationships, it's really just

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