{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Combative Calm","title":"FINAL EPISODE (of the Season)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1073,"description":"Content warning: This episode discusses depression, suicidal thoughts, and intrusive thoughts. Please listen when you're in a steady place, and protect your peace if today isn't the day. Sarai is open about having intrusive thoughts but is clear that she is not suicidal and has no plan....the difference between the two is a central part of this episode.This is the rawest episode Sarai has ever recorded, and the last one before Combative Calm takes a summer break. There's no tidy framework here and no \"five tools to fix it.\" It's just Sarai, mask all the way off, telling the truth about what it actually looks like to live with treatment-resistant depression while running a business and showing up for everyone else. She talks about doing deep TMS last fall — driving back and forth between her father's hospice care and her treatment, and losing her dad in the middle of it — and how, months later, the depression has quietly crept back in.She gets honest about the parts most people never say out loud: the weeks where executive function disappears and answering a single text feels impossible, the freeze and the twelve-hour sleeps, and the intrusive thoughts that hit twenty to fifty times a day telling her she shouldn't be here — followed twenty minutes later by laughing with her husband or firing off business ideas. She names the difference between an intrusive thought and a plan, because so many people stay silent out of fear, and that silence is the dangerous part. She talks about masking so well that her own psychiatrist and business manager had no idea she was struggling, what that costs her marriage, and why ketamine therapy is the next thing she's choosing to try — without pretending she knows whether it'll work.The whole point of this one is permission. Permission to be in it and still be functioning. Permission to let your intrusive thoughts be symptoms instead of verdicts. And permission — for Sarai and for you — to rest going into the summer instead of...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/W63vaFw1P16d2xN3SLR7vUZE25bFarjcIZFz84pH7Nk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kN2Y4/ZmNlODIwYWI0M2Y5/NTFiZDM0MDQ3OWE5/ZTVjNi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}