Tips and Tricks on How to Be Sick Podcast
1) 02-02 Depression and Suicidality
This month we’re going to talk about some heavy stuff that a lot of us experience, especially during the holiday season: we’re going to talk with musician Amy McNally about ways she copes with depress...Show More
2) 02-01 We're back for Season 2! Administrative notes on our hiatus and then we talk dysautonomia
In honor of Dysautonomia Awareness Month, we’re going to discuss dysautonomia and the ways it can present in different people, both on its own and in conjunction with other disorders. What is dysauton...Show More
3) 08 TBI and everything after - a conversation with Cheryl Green
What I would like to see is, at the same time that you’re going through rehab, that you’re getting constant reinforcement that it is OK to be a person with a disability or with an impairment. It is no...Show More
4) 07 Teletherapy - what it is and how it can help
We are going to be talking about mental health, why therapy could be helpful to anyone — mental health diagnosis or not — and ways to make therapy more accessible to people with disabilities. For this...Show More
5) Unplanned hiatus and an apology
This isn’t an episode of the podcast, not really. This is more of a side note and an apology for an unplanned three month hiatus. Please see for a full transcript of this podcast.
6) 06 How to Keep It Together when it's all falling apart
In this episode, we are going to be talking about keeping it together. Yes, in the sense of mentally and emotionally weathering life and the world around you, but also (and more specifically) keeping ...Show More
7) 05 Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome - quick tips with Eir and Laura
In this episode, we are going to be talking about Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, or EDS. There are many types of EDS, but they are considered to be the same family of disorders because they all stem from the...Show More
8) 04 Autism - including interviews with an #ActuallyAutistic adult and a licensed therapist
In this episode, we are going to be talking about autism, also called Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and what it’s like to realize, as an adult, that not only are you non-neurotypical but that you ar...Show More
9) 03 ME/CFS and an interview with filmmaker Jen Brea
In this episode, we have a special guest: we are going to be talking with filmmaker Jen Brea. Jen has ME/CFS, and while making a documentary about the progress of her condition from first symptoms thr...Show More
10) 02 Sleep - how to do it once chronic illness changes everything
In this episode, we’re going to discuss a thing we all have to do, but that some of us have real trouble with once our chronic illnesses or disabilities change everything: sleeping. Please see for a ...Show More