EP: 362 'I Met the Men in Black': Mental Health, Trauma, and an Unexplained Encounter *members only trailer

Blurry Creatures

Nature, Christianity, Science, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Tasha shares her deeply personal account of encountering Men in Black during her first psychiatric hospitalization in 2012. As an 18-year-old foster youth experiencing her first psychotic break at UC Berkeley, she found herself restrained on a hospital gurney—where two men in black suits with sunglasses appeared, repeatedly telling her "we're here to make you get better."This episode navigates challenging territory at the intersection of mental health, trauma, and unexplained phenomena. Tasha, now holding a master's degree and advocating for foster youth, reflects on her journey with a schizophrenia diagnosis while maintaining that her Men in Black encounter was real—particularly because she made physical contact, describing their skin as "waxy and cold," matching historical descriptions from Men in Black reports.We explore difficult questions: Can extreme fear or trauma create frequencies that attract unexplained visitors? Do some individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia have heightened spiritual perception alongside genuine mental health struggles? Why do Men in Black encounters sometimes occur without any reported UFO activity? Tasha discusses her healing journey through faith, the role of trauma in mental health, alternative treatments including dietary interventions, and why she believes both psychological and spiritual dimensions exist in her experience.The conversation addresses the complexity of discernment for those with mental health diagnoses, the importance of proper support systems, and how Tasha has transformed her painful past into advocacy work for foster youth. She candidly discusses the challenges of living with schizophrenia while maintaining spiritual awareness, the danger of dismissing all supernatural experiences as hallucinations, and the equal danger of attributing everything to the spiritual realm.Content Note: This episode contains discussion of mental health conditions, childhood trauma, and psychiatric hospitalization. Tasha's story represents her personal experience and perspective. We acknowledge the complexity of distinguishing between genuine supernatural encounters and symptoms of mental health conditions, and encourage anyone struggling with similar experiences to seek professional medical and spiritual guidance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm on this gurney and I wake up and I'm like, oh, there's a guy, there's an African-American dude and a presumably white dude standing next to each other with sunglasses and, you know, like a suit, like you see him the men in black. They had this black suit, black tie and a white shirt underneath. And I'm like, is this the FBI? Like in my mind, I don't have context for the men in black. in. So I'm thinking, oh my gosh, like the FBI is here. Like, what did I do either spiritually or whatever to like draw these guys in? And so in my mind, I'm like, what are you guys doing here? And they're like, we're here to make sure you get better. That's the thing that they repeated the whole time. We're here to help you get better. We're here to help you get better.
0:38.3	That was the theme of their time there was that we're here to help you get better.
0:41.3	They didn't say it once.
0:42.3	They said it multiple times.
0:48.3	The history of our Earth is so different from what we can imagine.
0:55.0	The Smithsonian, that if they found out about a large skeleton somewhere, was to go get it.
1:04.0	I'm going to assume at least one person is right, because if one person's right, it bust the paradigm.
1:10.0	It all goes back to the fallen chair
1:11.9	and the problem with the modern day church they have a very truncated view of the supernatural
1:16.4	this backdrop that's just pregnant with all kinds of meaning associated with this Mount
1:21.6	Herman event and this guy defects from the kingdom.
1:30.4	That's a big deal.
1:36.0	All right, welcome back to blurry creatures.
1:40.0	This next episode is a little bit of a mystery.
1:43.4	You know, um,
1:44.4	Tasha tells her story and she goes through her journey with schizophrenia
1:48.6	and some of the things she's seen and also an experience she had in the hospital.
1:52.6	And some of those people who struggle with that don't know, you know,
1:57.2	what's happening in, uh, in their mind or are they having supernatural experiences and i think that's a lot
2:02.6	of the emails we've gotten over the years it's easy to be skeptical one way or the other or have an answer
2:06.5	but sometimes we don't so we're going to hear her story yeah and i love this one too because we
2:11.0	we walk through some of the very delicate and interesting and sometimes taboo discussions around
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