Deena Walker: Just Like My Sister
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2014
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
When anxiety begins to overtake her, biology student Deena Walker begins to worry she'll end up just like her mentally ill sister. Deena Walker is a postdoctoral fellow at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine where she studies the molecular mechanisms of addiction and depression. She recently moved to New York after finishing her PhD at The University of Texas at Austin in December 2012. When she's not in lab she enjoys practicing yoga and playing fetch with her dog in Central Park. Help keep us going! If you love the podcast, please donate here: http://www.patreon.com/thestorycollider
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.8 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.6 | I felt... |
| 0:07.4 | I felt... |
| 0:07.6 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:09.6 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.8 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:28.7 | Hi, guys. Welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:36.5 | I'm senior producer Aaron Barker, filling in for Ben Lilly while he explores the Arctic Wilds of Canada this week. |
| 0:39.8 | This week we have a story for you from Dina Walker. |
| 0:46.2 | This story was recorded at our mental health show on March 12th at Littlefield in Brooklyn, New York. |
| 0:57.0 | So when I was 23, I admitted to my boyfriend that I had cheated on him. And as most rational human beings do, when they find out their significant other has betrayed them, |
| 1:04.0 | he decided he didn't want to see me anymore. |
| 1:08.0 | And this was a problem for me for a lot of reasons. It was a problem for him too. I recognize |
| 1:15.5 | that. But it was a problem for me because throughout the course of our relationship, I had |
| 1:22.6 | referred to him as my anxiety blanket, meaning that when I went to bed at night, if he was beside me, it would |
| 1:31.0 | somehow calm the crazy in my head and help me sleep. And when he left, it sent me into a three-day |
| 1:43.3 | panic attack, which consisted of me hiding in my closet, |
| 1:47.0 | hyperventilating, and crying hysterically, leaving every once in a while to go throw up, |
| 1:55.0 | and then running back to the safety of my little hole. |
| 1:59.0 | And while I was in there, I felt as if the world were collapsing in on me |
| 2:03.1 | and that I had completely lost control. And I was paralyzed by the fear that someone would |
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