Welcome to Is This Real Life, a Bravo podcast that relates our favorite shows to our own lives in the world around us.

I'm your host, Mandy Slutsger. Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. I hope you had a fabulous week. So I have a treat for you all today. I'm doing an in-depth

episode on Bravo fans, mental health and social media with Chelsea at Ono Chels, who you guys all know

from the I Am the Cute One and Nostalgia podcast.

Chelsea and Donnie are so funny, and if you've not listened to their podcast, run, don't walk to go download it.

It is just, it's the best.

But Chelsea in her day-to-day life is a mental health professional, and she doesn't talk about it that

much. She's only done one other podcast besides this one, which was Katie Maloney's podcast, where

she talked about mental health in depth. And so I'm so glad that she was willing to sit down and

chat with me and answer a bunch of questions

that I have about, you know, mental health terminology, how we should use it, how maybe we

shouldn't use it, some questions about ethics and counseling that I have brought up, I think,

before. And then especially getting into behavior on social media and why it is so different sometimes

from people's behavior in their real lives.

And I had come across the online disinhibition effect, which was created or discovered in 2004 by a cyber psychologist

named John Seuler. And I had reached out to him. I haven't yet found a way to get in touch,

but I'm very fascinated with this phenomenon and wanted to sit down and talk to an actual mental health

professional about it. So we kind of get really in depth about a lot of these topics. We share a lot

of opinions. You may agree. You may disagree. But please be kind to Chelsea in any comments that you make.

And as always, you can DM me and share your thoughts whether you agree or disagree with things in the episode.

You know, as always, if you like the podcast, go ahead, give it a five-star rating and leave a kind review, but, you know, I'm always

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