Tips and Tricks on How to Be Sick

Tips and Tricks on How to Be Sick


Latest Episodes

02-02 Depression and Suicidality
January 01, 2021

This month were going to talk about some heavy stuff that a lot of us experience, especially during the holiday season: were going to talk with musician Amy McNally about ways she copes with depress

02-01 We're back for Season 2! Administrative notes on our hiatus and then we talk dysautonomia
October 29, 2020

In honor of Dysautonomia Awareness Month, were going to discuss dysautonomia and the ways it can present in different people, both on its own and in conjunction with other disorders. What is dysauton

08 TBI and everything after - a conversation with Cheryl Green
January 01, 2019

What I would like to see is, at the same time that you’re going through rehab, that you’re getting constant reinforcement that it is OK to be a person with a disability or with an impairment. It is not embarrassing to ask for help. You are not a...

07 Teletherapy - what it is and how it can help
October 08, 2018

We are going to be talking about mental health, why therapy could be helpful to anyone — mental health diagnosis or not — and ways to make therapy more accessible to people with disabilities. For this, the interview will be with a clinical...

Unplanned hiatus and an apology
October 07, 2018

This isn’t an episode of the podcast, not really. This is more of a side note and an apology for an unplanned three month hiatus. Please see for a full transcript of this podcast.

06 How to Keep It Together when it's all falling apart
June 29, 2018

In this episode, we are going to be talking about keeping it together. Yes, in the sense of mentally and emotionally weathering life and the world around you, but also (and more specifically) keeping up with all the little changes that happen when a...

05 Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome - quick tips with Eir and Laura
May 31, 2018

In this episode, we are going to be talking about Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, or EDS. There are many types of EDS, but they are considered to be the same family of disorders because they all stem from the same cause: improperly made collagen in the body....

04 Autism - including interviews with an #ActuallyAutistic adult and a licensed therapist
May 14, 2018

In this episode, we are going to be talking about autism, also called Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and what it’s like to realize, as an adult, that not only are you non-neurotypical but that you are, in fact, autistic. Please see...

03 ME/CFS and an interview with filmmaker Jen Brea
March 31, 2018

In this episode, we have a special guest: we are going to be talking with filmmaker Jen Brea. Jen has ME/CFS, and while making a documentary about the progress of her condition from first symptoms through diagnosis and beyond, she did most of that...

02 Sleep - how to do it once chronic illness changes everything
January 31, 2018

In this episode, were going to discuss a thing we all have to do, but that some of us have real trouble with once our chronic illnesses or disabilities change everything: sleeping. Please see for a