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Your Bish Therapist

YBT x Drama, Darling collab: Belle Gibson

Your Bish Therapist

Melissa Reich

Tv & Film, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6605 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Melissa and Amy collaborate to discuss the psychological underpinnings of women who fake cancer; Belle Gibson (the focus of Netflix’s ‘Instagram’s Worst Con Artist’ and ‘apple cider vinegar’), Scamanda, and Elizabeth Finch. This podcast examines social, emotional, and psychological factors that led Belle to become one of the most prolific cancer scam artists, fooling both Apple and Penguin Publishing.
Specifically, Melissa and Amy discuss factitious disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder and psychopathology, outlining the psychology that underlies this type of behavior. This leads to a discussion about epigenetics, childhood trauma, attention seeking and more. Melissa also tells a personal story of being impacted by a scammer, TW: ED discussed.
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Disclaimer: Posts are not intended to diagnose, treat or provide medical advice. Your Bish Therapist (YBT) is for entertainment and informational purposes only. The podcast, my opinions, and posts, are my own and are not associated with past or present employers, any organizations, Bravo TV, Grey Heart productions or any other television network. The information in YBT podcast and on its social media is provided for general informational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat. Please do not act or refrain from acting based on anything you read, see, or hear on YBT, podcast or associated social media. Communicating with YBT via email, and/or social media does not form a therapeutic alliance. Melissa, operator of YBT, is unable to provide any therapeutic advice, treatment or feedback.

Disclaimer: Posts are not intended to diagnose, treat or provide medical advice. Your Bish Therapist (YBT) is for entertainment and informational purposes only. The podcast, my opinions, and posts, are my own and are not associated with past or present employers, any organizations, Bravo TV, Grey Heart productions or any other television network. The information in YBT podcast and on its its social media is provided for general informational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat. Please do not act or refrain from acting based on anything you read, see, or hear on YBT, podcast or associated social media. Communicating with YBT via email, and/or social media does not form a therapeutic alliance. Melissa, operator of YBT, is unable to provide any therapeutic advice, treatment or feedback.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody. Hi, Melissa. Hi, Amy. I'm so happy to be here with you today. Yay. Me too. You guys were doing a

0:11.2

collab. I am here with Melissa Reich, your Bisch therapist. And Melissa. Hello, everybody. Yes. And I'm here

0:20.0

with the fabulous, the one and only Miss Amy Phillips, F. Yes. And I'm here with the fabulous, the one and only, Miss Amy Phillips from Drama, darling.

0:26.9

I had to add in my own little sound effect to pump us up.

0:30.9

What, what?

0:32.2

So cool to be here with you, Melissa.

0:35.0

We have a lot of work to do.

0:36.8

And dare I say, you're going to be

0:38.5

doing the lion's share of this. And I will be like a fan in the front row seats, just

0:44.8

cheering you on as you talk about what we're going to discuss. So we've all, we've done our work.

0:52.7

Hopefully you guys have heard about this. And if you haven't,

0:55.5

buckle up because we're going to take you on a real ride telling the story and giving professional

1:01.6

insights from your Bish therapist and clownish insights from your drama darling bitch wife.

1:10.2

We're talking about Bell Gibson.

1:12.8

We're covering the documentary, which is what, Melissa?

1:16.1

It is the search for Instagram's worst con artist, which is the documentary on Bell Gibson,

1:24.3

but you also watch something called Apple Cider Vinegar, which was the, it was,

1:32.8

what would they call that?

1:34.1

Not a mockumentary.

1:35.5

A very loose dramatization.

1:38.3

And it's a series.

1:40.1

It's a, you know, it's a drama series.

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