295 - Easy Crafts for the Insane - Kelly Williams Brown

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🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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In this episode we sit down with author Kelly Williams Brown, an old friend who (I recently learned) had attempted suicide, which is the subject of this episode – suicide prevention and awareness. In the show we learn about Kelly's latest book, Easy Crafts for the Insane, in which she recounts how, after she gained fame and success as a NYT bestselling author, her life came apart and how an anti-anxiety-drug-induced manic state nearly ended her life.

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0:06.0	P on down into the middle of the parties and
0:08.0	And the cool, we're gonna be cool, we're in a bit bit. They went quiet. Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.
0:27.0	Episode 295. Oh, So I was there and I was congratulating myself and feeling you know not not great
0:51.5	about it you're not proud of a divorce but proud of doing
0:54.6	what I knew to be the right thing and I was like well you know like I can determine
0:59.8	my own future everything is ahead of me I here, I've done the difficult thing, I can go seek
1:06.4	a life of meaningful chosen family, I don't have to have the husband and the kids and the
1:11.1	house and the suburbs.
1:12.7	And then from there, things sort of spiraled catastrophically
1:16.8	in somewhat related, but mostly independent ways,
1:20.7	mostly just a lot of different horrible random things happening, and then I went crazy. That was my good friend, Kelly Williams Brown.
1:45.0	She's an incredible writer, author of several books.
1:49.0	And this episode is going to be Kelly and I talking about how she attempted to end her life.
1:58.0	So this episode will discuss that concept and I want you to know that this episode is coming out
2:05.7	right before World Suicide Prevention Day, which is September 10th and September
2:11.3	is National Suicide Prevention Month.
2:14.0	And if you didn't already know, if you need help,
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