Welcome to Neurotic Tornado 😫🌪 (RSS, iTunes): a podcast series that explores relationships and emotions and pain and other messy, hilarious things. To learn more about this podcast, check out the Neurotic Tornado home page.
Season 4: I Have Issues
In this season (episodes 39-45), Yuvi talks to his wife about his mental baggage, especially related to sharing creative stuff with the world (like his latest novel).
Episode 40: I’m My Obsession (39 min, April 17, 2022)
My wife visits me up in the attic to talk about obsessive thinking, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and why I'm capable of re-reading an already-sent email 87 times.
Episode 41: Spiral of Foreboding (26 min, April 29, 2022)
We discuss my overactive sense of dread and foreboding, and why my sense of object permanence is only slightly better than a baby's.
Episode 42: Pain Scale from 1 to Fuchsia (31 min, May 13, 2022)
I suffer from chronic migraines. Every week I have to work through the ups and downs of how I feel. In this episode, my wife and I talk about how we manage our lives alongside my chronic pain.
Episode 43: The Depression and Anxiety Episode (32 min, May 27, 2022)
We discuss my relationship to depression and anxiety over the years. Turns out that I used to date depression but now I'm hooking up with anxiety. So... yay???
Episode 44: Stage Fright, Book Launches, and Other Nightmares (38 min, June 7, 2022)
We discuss stage fright, the book launch experience, and my nightmares about peeing. We also give Jackie Shannon Hollis a call. She hosted this show in seasons 2 & 3, and released a fabulous memoir in 2019: This Particular Happiness.
Episode 45: The Failed Q&A Episode (26 min, June 29, 2022)
We attempt a Q&A episode with various fake questions that lead us into a conversation about gardening, narcissism, and self-discovery.
Bonus Episode (39) from the Archives: The Catastrophizer (35 min)
I have a problem with catastrophizing things that are not catastrophes.
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