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🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In a long-awaited episode, Julia is joined by her PhD bestina Jewish Aliza for a multifaceted discussion about mental illness, psychology programs, and the hell of grad school. The girlies differentiate between the many ways to become a therapist, affirm psychodynamic supremacy, navigate how to practice with an online presence, and unpack how they try (and fail) to maintain their sanity. Digressions include the need for bipolar lesbian representation, Aliza’s Catherine Zeta-Jones themed Bat Mitzvah, and the importance of reaching out to randos.
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| 0:00.0 | I love that you're like, we need more lesbian bipolar representation. Me being a poster child. Be the lesbian bipolar representation you wish to see in the world. No, literally. I'm like, why are you all not talking about the intersection of lesbianism and bipolar disorder? What is the intersection? Is there one? I mean, there's got to be. Like, where are the bipolar lesbians like when you go into lesbian psychosis that is where |
| 0:22.1 | it intersects with bipolar disorder well unfortunately yeah I think for like as the lesbians know |
| 0:27.9 | and like we've talked about this there's like this real epidemic of yearning that happens when |
| 0:32.4 | you're a lesbian it's a symptom it's like a serious symptom of lesbianism, like where you're, like, you're fixating |
| 0:39.2 | on like an unavailable girlie. Right. And I mean, this happens to all of us to some degree. Leave comments in the chat if you fixated on an unavailable girlie. Thank you. For real. But it's like so I've spoken to lesbian friends about this, like queer women friends. And I think there's this real, like, thing that exists in the context of queer relationships. |
| 0:57.5 | This, like queer women friends. And I think there's this real, like, |
| 0:59.7 | thing that exists in the context of queer relationships, this like gray space, this liminal space where it's like can, in the same way where it's like, can men and women just be friends? |
| 1:03.7 | It's like, can two lesbians ever, like, not be in this space where it's like, wait, like what's, what's going on? What's going on here? |
| 1:15.0 | Right. Like have two lesbians ever not been in a liminal space together? I think you can get there, |
| 1:21.0 | but I think it takes a while. And I do think I saw some mean that was just like, meet my like, |
| 1:27.3 | platonic, non-romantic lover with whom I've had like deep, this like this emotional connection no one could possibly understand. And like we will end up together one day, but also there's nothing going on between. Like it's just this weird thing. And I do think like when you are a woman who's like dating a man, it's kind of like, this man wouldn't be around |
| 1:44.9 | me if he didn't want to have sex with me. |
| 1:47.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:47.3 | Like actually it's like pretty simple. I think it's one of those things that it's not that ambiguous because men are so obvious about how they feel that it's like, you'll know. They're so simple. You'll know. Like there is, and I'm, but you won't know. |
| 1:59.5 | But you won't know. |
| 1:59.5 | And the bisexual girlies and men probably know this, but it's like, no, no, no, men are so simple. They're easier to date than women. Yeah. And I know, like, bisexual women who've been like, it's just easier. Like, I date men because it's just easier. Right. And like, that's real. You're like, if I could, I would. But I can't. I recently, and I think I told you this, was like, do I think this man is attractive? Right. This man, like a man that I recently like have seen from a distance. Did you ever have, like, crushes on men when you were younger? No. It's just not one. It's really crazy. Yeah. Who was your first crush? |
| 2:36.2 | My first crush was literally on Hillary Duff. |
| 2:37.7 | Like, I was obsessed with Hillary Duff. |
| 2:40.2 | I had a poster of Hillary Duff in my room that I would kiss. |
| 2:41.5 | Well, okay. |
| 2:44.3 | That's maybe something for us to delve into. |
| 2:45.9 | But that's another thing. |
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