Hello and welcome to another episode of I Way with Dmitri Mila, a podcast against shame.

I hope you're well and today is the ultimate guest because I feel like she is such a staunch

and bold advocate against shame about how you can own all your shame and then repurpose it and

recycle it into making the whole world feel happier and better. Her name is Rachel Bloom,

the genius behind Crazy X Girlfriend and truly just one of the absolute babes of our generation,

someone who has made so many people feel seen and she does so again in this wonderful chat in which

we discuss everything from intrusive thoughts at an early age to learning about having ADHD as an

adult and how that's kind of recontextualized her life, going from a fear of crazy to embracing

the term and even making her art all around that about processing grief during the pandemic. She

went through something unbelievably tricky just a few years ago and we really get into that

and also her ability to see mental health as bespoke rather than textbook which I think we

all need to do. There's so much information and misinformation all over social media and it's

hard not to just kind of put ourselves in boxes and not treat ourselves enough as individuals who need

very very specific care according to our circumstances. She's so fucking great and real and cool.

I like her so much that I don't even want to talk to you anymore. I just want you to listen to

the excellent Rachel Bloom. Rachel bloody Bloom, welcome to highway, how are you? I'm so I'm doing

so well, how are you doing? I'm so good, I love hearing that you're doing so well, you're very

important and we all care about you very much. I'll take you in lead like one of my favourite

people for putting a discussion out there that other people don't have and you do it via the

kind of spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine go down. You use comedy and music and all sorts

of forms of entertainment including your hilarious book to be able to destigmatise important

conversations for everyone but I think more specifically women and women especially who feel

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