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Stories with keyword: recovery

You’ve Worried Enough For Today

From childhood, Stefan’s whole life is music – he composes, sings, plays multiple instruments; he’s driven to become a renowned singer and instrumentalist, and express the world of emotions through sound. He applies to NYU for music performance and production, … Continue reading →

Keywords Best of RISK!, Central Sensitization Syndrome, chronic illness, chronic pain, CSS, diagnosis, glbtqia, healing, health, instrumentalist, Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, musician, mysterious, nerves, nervous system, neurology, New York, pain, queer, Radio, recovery, Rochester, singer, singing, symptoms

Interview: Tracy and Kevin Allison

Kevin Allison interviews Tracy about the process of creating and performing her shocking and deeply emotional story “Transcendent” as part of the Live From Philly episode. The interview contains excerpts from Tracy’s story.

Keywords analysis, anxiety, audio hallucination, better., blood, brave, breakdown, college, commentary, delayed grieving, delusion, delusional, detachment, dog, freaking out, grief, hallucination, hospital, inpatient, joint, karaoke, Kevin Allison, kill, knife, Live, love, marijuana, mental health, mental illness, messiah, mom, mother, murder, mushrooms, outpatient, pain, Philadelphia, Philly, philosophy, police, pot, psych ward, reality, recovery, religion, show host, stabbing, steak knife, suicide, trip, unconditional love, voices, weed

The Long Road

Leslie was a musician carrying a history of family addiction and trauma in her life. She was asleep, with her boyfriend staying over, when a burglar with a gun broke into their home. He started talking to Leslie while taking … Continue reading →

Keywords addiction, alcohol, alcoholic, alcoholism, altered, boyfriend, break-in, brother, burglar, cocaine, cowboy, drive, drugs, ecstasy, escape, escape plan, family, gun, gunpoint, healing, heart condition, highway, hostage, kevin's pick, MDMA, motel, mother, music, music therapy, musician, overdose, police, pot, PTSD., Radio, recovery, robber, singer, songwriter, stealing, strategize, strategy, thief, threat, threatening, trauma, tripping, weed, X

Act Two

Christina has always had an assortment of mysterious health issues, but in college, she starts getting much sicker, with joints so achy she can barely move, and fatigue that makes her fall asleep in class and eventually have to drop … Continue reading →

Keywords antibiotics, autoimmune, body image, chronic illness, chronic pain, college, dancer, dropout, fatigue, gentlemen’s club, health, infusion, Live, Lyme, Lyme Disease, Minneapolis, nude, pain, recovery, strip club, stripping, topless

Transcendent

Tracy is a sophomore at Bard College searching for transcendental experiences to escape from the grief she’s been carrying inside. When she takes mushrooms for the first time, the initial good trip gives way to feelings of suicidality. The next … Continue reading →

Keywords anxiety, audio hallucination, Best of RISK!, better., blood, brave, breakdown, college, delayed grieving, delusion, delusional, detachment, dog, freaking out, grief, hallucination, hospital, inpatient, joint, karaoke, kill, knife, Live, love, marijuana, mental health, mental illness, messiah, mom, mother, murder, mushrooms, outpatient, pain, Philadelphia, Philly, philosophy, police, pot, psych ward, reality, recovery, religion, stabbing, steak knife, suicide, trip, unconditional love, voices, weed

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