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⚠️ CONTENT WARNING / LISTENER DISCRETION
This episode contains candid and potentially triggering conversations about mental illness, trauma, abuse, suicidal thoughts and experiences, psychiatric hospitalization, psychosis, paranoia, and other sensitive topics. Please listen with care. If any part of this conversation becomes too heavy, it’s okay to pause, take a break, or skip this episode. If you need help please reach out to a health care professional, your doctor, you can call/text 988, or go to your local emergency room
What if you could step inside my head for an hour?
Would the things I do make a little more sense?
In Part One of “What’s Inside My Head?”, I’m opening a door I normally keep pretty tightly closed.
My special guest, Deb Scarborough, joins me for a raw and honest conversation about mental illness—what it can look like from the outside, what it feels like from the inside, and the things people don’t always understand.
We talk about Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), OCD, PTSD, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder with psychotic episodes, paranoia, and some of the realities that come with living inside a mind that doesn’t always feel like a safe or predictable place.
This isn’t a clinical lecture.
It’s my life.
We talk about the confusing parts. The painful parts. The parts I can laugh about now. And the parts that are still incredibly difficult to say out loud.
But this conversation isn’t only about mental illness.
It’s about shame.
For years, there were pieces of myself I thought I needed to hide—the diagnoses, the trauma, the thoughts, the experiences that might make someone look at me differently.
Not anymore.
I love Jesus. I have faith. And I also live with mental illness.
Those things can exist in the same sentence.
Faith doesn’t mean pretending everything is okay. Sometimes faith looks like worship and answered prayers. Sometimes it looks like simply getting through another day.
And sometimes faith is lying on the floor whispering, “Jesus, I need You.”
He meets us there, too.
My hope is that this conversation helps someone feel a little less alone. Maybe you live with mental illness yourself. Maybe you love someone who does and you’ve struggled to understand what they’re experiencing. Or maybe you’ve spent years hiding pieces of your own story because you were afraid of what people would think.
Pull up a chair.
We’re talking about the things people usually whisper about—and we’re doing it unashamed.
Your struggles don’t make you less worthy of love. Your diagnosis isn’t your identity. And your story doesn’t have to stay hidden.
Welcome to Unashamed.
This is where the journey begins—where we release the shame, break free from the chains, and learn what it means to live unashamed and unchained.
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