321 - Easy Crafts for the Insane - Kelly Williams Brown (rebroadcast)

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🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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This episode is about suicide prevention and awareness. Author Kelly Williams Brown tells us about her book, Easy Crafts for the Insane, in which she recounts how, after she gained fame and success as a NYT bestselling author, her world came apart. Then an anti-anxiety-drug-induced manic state nearly ended her life.

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0:24.6	Down into the middle of the parties and the get. Welcome to the You Are Not So
0:45.8	Episode Episode
0:47.7	Episode 321
0:49.7	321 So I was there and I was congratulating myself and feeling, you know, not great about it, you're not proud of a divorce,
1:11.9	but proud of doing what I knew to be the right thing. And I was like, wow, you know, like,
1:18.1	I can determine my own future. Everything is ahead of me. I'm here. I've done the difficult thing.
1:23.4	I can go seek a life of meaningful chosen family. I don't have to have the husband and the kids and the house in the suburbs.
1:31.7	And then from there, things sort of spiraled catastrophically in somewhat related, but mostly independent ways.
1:39.7	Mostly just a lot of different horrible random things happening.
1:44.2	And then I went crazy.
2:00.0	That was my good friend, Kelly Williams Brown.
2:04.1	She's an incredible writer, author of several books.
2:08.2	And this episode is going to be Kelly and I talking about how she attempted to end her life.
2:16.4	So this episode will discuss that concept.
2:21.0	And I want you to know that this episode is coming out right before World Suicide Prevention Day,
2:27.7	which is September 10th.
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