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Mental Health is Horrifying

Candis Green | Many Moons Therapy

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Frequency: 1 episode/22d. Total Eps: 55

A spooky self care podcast about the mental health benefits of horror. Journey into the horrifying depths with Candis Green, Registered Psychotherapist, (and all around spooky ghoul), as she explores how mental health themes are portrayed in your favourite horror movies and beyond. Drawing on archetypes from final girls to horror villains, Candis provides guidance in each episode about how listeners can navigate their own mental health woes.

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Halloween (1978) — The *perfect* final girl, and her anxiety boogeyman

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 • Duration 34:54

This special Halloween episode explores the absolute classic Halloween (1978) and its portrayal of Laurie Strode’s over-functioning anxiety in her pursuit to uphold the mantle of the perfect final girl.

As a psychotherapist for final girls, this episode is a love letter to all of you.

Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, Registered Psychotherapist and owner of Many Moons Therapy.

Instagram: @mentalhealthishorrifying

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Show Notes:

Want to work together? I offer 1:1 psychotherapy (Ontario), along with tarot, horror, and dreamwork services, but individually and through my group program, the Final Girls Club. This month's feature is Your Hallowed Halloween Kit.

Send me some Ghoul Mail!

I love hearing from you spooky ghouls! Want a chance to have your story read on a future episode of Mental Health is Horrifying? If you’d like to share what horror movies mean to you, how they have helped you with your mental health, or about a particular horror movie that you have thoughts and feelings about, send me some Ghoul Mail.

Podcast artwork by Chloe Hurst at Contempomint.

The Story Behind the Original Halloween By Jason Bailey

Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film by Carol J. Clover

Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Women by Heather B. Howell, Olga Brawman-Mintzer, Jeannine Monnier, Kimberly A. Yonkers, Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Volume 24, Issue 1, 2001

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Longlegs — Intrusive thoughts, brought to you by Nicolas Cage

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 • Duration 46:51

I don’t know what the deal is with all of you who didn’t find Longlegs scary, because this movie straight up gave me intrusive thoughts! This episode talks about those thoughts, how I learned to challenge my Nicolas Cage-related intrusive thoughts, and how you can challenge yours too through cognitive strategies and (seemingly paradoxically) through horror.

Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, Registered Psychotherapist and owner of Many Moons Therapy.

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Show Notes:

Want to work together? I offer 1:1 psychotherapy (Ontario), along with tarot, horror, and dreamwork services, but individually and through my group program, the Final Girls Club.

Send me some Ghoul Mail!

Podcast artwork by Chloe Hurst at Contempomint.

Effects of suppression of personal intrusive thoughts by Anita E. Kelly and Jeffrey H. Kahn, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 66, Iss. 6

Covering Up What Can't Be Seen: Concealable Stigma and Mental Control by Laura Richman and Daniel M. Wegner, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 77(3): 474-486 by Brook A. Marcks and Douglas W. Woods, Behaviour Research and Therapy, Volume 43, Issue 4, April 2005, Pages 433-445by Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire

Five Nights at Freddy’s — Dreamwork to navigate the unconscious and a murderous teddy bear

Monday, November 13, 2023 • Duration 34:52

Let’s talk about Five Nights at Freddy’s (2023) and its portrayal of the personal unconscious through dreams.

K so the reason I went to see this movie is because Matthew Lillard is in it and I think he is one of THE BEST horror film actors of all time and I will see anything he is in. But I was SO pleasantly surprised at how much I liked this movie! I immediately saw that this movie was about the navigation of trauma through dreamwork and Jungian archetypes — AND there were adorable murderous animatronic critters who love pizza and singing songs so like… what’s there not to like?

Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, owner of Many Moons Therapy.

Podcast artwork by Chloe Hurst from Contempomint.
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Order The Horror Concierge: A Mental Health and Horror Tarot Readings + Film Reco. Order yours HERE.

Hey final girls — I have an exciting group experience coming in the new year that will guide you through dreamwork exploration. Sign up for my newsletter to be the first to know when this launches.

Consciousness and the Unconscious: Lectures Delivered at ETH Zurich, Volume 2: 1934 by C.G. Jung and Ernst Falzeder

Jung's Model of the Psyche by Ann Hopwood

Five Nights At Freddy's Breaks Major Horror Movie Box Office Record Of 2023 by Nick Bythrow

Five Nights at Freddy’s, the cult horror game turned movie, explained by Aja Romanoby Cassidy Ward by C.G. Jung by Hans Biedermann

Hocus Pocus — I put a spell on your nervous system

Tuesday, October 10, 2023 • Duration 32:33

On this special Halloween episode, I’m going to risk having my horror hall pass revoked by diving into a movie that is uhhh not TECHNICALLY a horror movie, but I believe still deserves a place somewhere in the genre for reasons we will explore in the episode — HOCUS POCUS (1993)!

It’s for the same reason that I believe so strongly that everybody should be able to connect with feelings of pure joy and excitement as they relate to Halloween, that I also believe that horror is for EVERYBODY no matter how much terror you can withstand. I have developed a theory to explore this —and it’s called the Spooky/Scary Spectrum.

Okay so let’s talk about Hocus Pocus and my PATENTED Spooky/Scary Spectrum of horror and how it relates to the nervous system!

Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, owner of Many Moons Therapy.

Podcast artwork by Chloe Hurst from Contempomint.
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Sources:

Order The Horror Concierge: A Mental Health and Horror Tarot Readings + Film Reco. Order yours HERE.

Be sure to check out my Instagram @manymoonstherapy for a diagram of the Spooky/Scary spectrum, and to see what movies I placed on the spectrum for myself! Why don’t you give it a try too?

Hocus Pocus (1993) Trailer, Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

Learning in the panic zone: strategies for managing learner anxiety by Rob Palethorpe, John P. Wilson in Journal of European Industrial Training

by And Ortiz by Marilyn La Jeunesse by Kim Wong-Shing by Robinson, T. ., Callahan, C., & Evans, K. by Coltan Scriver, John A. Johnson, Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen, Mathias Clasen by Jacob Tindle and Prasanna Tadi

The Ring — Grief is a well you’ve been thrown down

Wednesday, September 27, 2023 • Duration 36:40

So — have you heard about this tape?

Let’s talk about The Ring (2002) and its portrayal of grief, nature vs nurture, and the psycho-therapeutic theory of emotional dwelling.

There are many readings of what the metaphors in this movie are really about. And for a lot of people this movie is about technology — viral media and misinformation, technology as a virus, technophobia etc etc — but for me, this movie is so much about grief! Like — it just is! Miscarriages! Murder! Hauntings! Girls in wells! Grief.

Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, owner of Many Moons Therapy.

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Psychoanalytic Dialogues 26: 103-108 Walking the Tightrope of Emotional Dwelling by George E. Atwood, Phd and Robert D. Stolorow, Phd

Undergoing the situation: Emotional dwelling is more than empathic understanding by Robert D. Storlow

Epigenetics and Child Development: How Children’s Experiences Affect Their Genes

How "Ringu" (1998) Embodies Cultural Fear by Daniel Hess

'The Ring' at 20: Millennial Horror That's Still Infecting Movies Today by Beatrice Loayza

You Won’t Regret Rewatching The Ring by Kevin Townsend, Sophie Gilbert, David Sims, and Lenika Cruz

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They Live — 5 tips to manifest out of this dystopian hellscape, babe

Monday, August 28, 2023 • Duration 41:40

Let’s talk about They Live (1988) and its portrayal of mental health themes of oppression, manifestation vs. reality, and the attention economy and ADHD.

They Live focuses on an ordinary man who discovers an alien race has been controlling the human population through subliminal messaging that promotes vapid consumerism. Is this a documentary? Maybe.

Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, owner of Many Moons Therapy.

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Show Notes:

As a special gift for my hallowed listeners, for a limited time use promo code HORRIFYING20 for 20% off The Horror Concierge: A Mental Health and Horror Tarot Readings + Film Reco. Order yours HERE.

Trickle-Down Behavior Analysis by Mark R. Dixon

American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition. Arlington, VA., American Psychiatric Association, 2013.

Association of Digital Media Use With Subsequent Symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Among Adolescents. by Ra CK, Cho J, Stone MD, De La Cerda J, Goldenson NI, Moroney E, Tung I, Lee SS, Leventhal AM.

They Live Fight Scene: Secret Behind Cinema’s Greatest Brawl by Tim Buckler

Consumer Price Index: Annual review, 2022

What Does Barbie’s Box Office Bonanza Mean for Mattel Stock? by Jaime Katz by Jonathan Taplin by Will Kenton by Rhonda Byrne by Byron Katie by BER Staff

Jaws — Don’t ignore your emotions or they’ll swim up and bite you in the ass!

Thursday, July 27, 2023 • Duration 50:01

It’s summertime, ghouls! It’s hot, it’s humid, and wouldn’t you non-vampire people just love a day on the beach? Or are you afraid to go in the water? On today’s episode, I’m going to be talking about the OG summer blockbuster that made everyone afraid to go in the water, Jaws (1975).

Let’s talk about Jaws as a metaphor for emotional avoidance, its portrayal of existential themes of meaning vs meaninglessness, and believe it or not — pet and animal grief!

Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, owner of Many Moons Therapy.

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‘Jaws’: The Groundbreaking Summer Blockbuster that Changed Hollywood, and Our Summer Vacations, Forever by Sven Mikulec

The Real-Life Drama That Almost Prevented Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws' From Being Made by Lloyd Farley

Attachment and Loss by John Bowlby

The Strange Situation by Mary Ainsworth

Staring at the sun: Overcoming the terror of death by Irvin Yalom

The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche

What Song Quint Keeps Singing In Jaws by Kevin Maclean

Repressing Emotions by Angelica Attard Ph.D. Veterinarians group fighting 'staggering' statistics on death by suicide in profession by Kevin Yarrby Ker Than by Olivia Rutigliano by Jacquelyne Germain Support local bunnies!

The Mist — Cloudy with a chance of monsters (+ climate anxiety and xenophobia!)

Episode 3

Monday, June 26, 2023 • Duration 45:47

Let’s talk about the apocalyptic— today’s forecast is misty with a chance of monsters — low key 2007 creature feature, The Mist.

I had seen this movie a handful of times over the years and upon a rewatch for this episode, I really wanted this movie to just be about climate change. It’s easy to see it that way pure and simple — there’s literally monsters in the mist outside that prevent people from going out lest they get eaten. But on closer inspection, there is so much much more going on here and begs the question — is climate change really just environmental terrorism? And who exactly is the real monster here?

This episode explores the film’s portrayal of climate anxiety, a psychological concept called sense-making, in and out groups, spiritual bypassing, and hopelessness. Good times!

Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, owner of Many Moons Therapy.

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The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle: Final Girls and a New Hollywood Formula by Alexandra West https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-1990s-teen-horror-cycle/

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9827912-incognito

Canada wildfires: US East Coast sees worst air quality in years https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65828469

The Social Psychology of Organizing by Karl E. Weick https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/134489

Deep Diversity: Overcoming Us Vs. Them by Shakil Choudhury https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/26781095

Toward a Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Path of Personal and Spiritual Transformation by John Welwood https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14457.Toward_a_Psychology_of_Awakening

‘The Mist’ Is Still Relevant for Unfortunate Reasons by Kristen Lopez
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/mist-is-still-relevant-unfortunate-reasons-1060573/

Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91953.Leviathan ..............................................................Mental Health Resources:Assaulted Women’s Help Line awhl.org416-863-0511Centre for Addiction and Mental Health camh.net416-535-8501Distress Centres of Torontodcogt.com416-408-4357 Gerstein Crisis Centregersteincentre.org 416-929-5200Toronto Rape Crisis Centre / Multicultural Women Against Rape trccmwar.ca416-597-8808Victim Services Torontovictimservicestoronto.com 416-808-7066

Carrie —she's not a monster, she's just religiously traumatized!

Episode 2

Monday, June 5, 2023 • Duration 34:19

Let's talk about the blood-soaked, prom queen of our dreams who — spoiler alert! — burns the whole ass gymnasium down cinematic masterpiece from 1976, Carrie.

One of my favourite things about the origin story of this movie is that after Stephen King scoured the deepest, darkest, recesses of his mind to conjure up the most horrific scenario that he could —a teenage girl has her period for the first time in a public school shower, leading all of her classmates to laugh at her and pelt her with tampons! Horrors!

This episode explores the film’s portrayal of interconnected themes of religious trauma and abuse, shame, and the monstrous feminine.

Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, owner of Many Moons Therapy.

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https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2566855/adapting-stephen-king-carrie-queen-of-prom-brian-de-palma-sissy-spacek

A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2076787/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame: A Relational/Neurobiological Approach by Patricia A. DeYoung https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22776119-understanding-and-treating-chronic-shame

https://mashable.com/video/stephen-king-role-of-horror-dark-times

Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers by Sady Doyle https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43802026-dead-blondes-and-bad-mothers

The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis by Barbara Creed https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395435.The_Monstrous_Feminine

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/10/17/449176709/horrible-things-happen-to-nepali-girls-when-they-menstruate-15girls

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M3GAN — an AI robot treating mental health... what could go wrong?

Episode 1

Monday, June 5, 2023 • Duration 43:36

Let's talk about 2023 AI dystopian murderous doll from the bowels of tech hell masterpiece — M3GAN.

It is my belief that horror movies reflect not only the zeitgeist of the time in which they are made, but also our inner most fears and anxieties. While this movie is a lot of fun and M3GAN herself is a riot, it also carries an incredibly powerful message about the potential impacts of AI on human attachment.

This episode explores M3GAN’s portrayal of our society’s overall garbage relationship to grief and conversations about death, existential themes of loneliness and isolation, and the intersection of technology, mental health care, and attachment theory.

Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, owner of Many Moons Therapy.

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Sources:

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2023-01-05/m3gan-movie-malignant-akela-cooper-james-wan-horror

https://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/resources/fear-of-death/

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2062034.Staring_at_the_Sun

https://www.eterneva.com/resources/death-rituals

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fhumd.2021.684137/full

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-13409-0

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/can-ai-treat-mental-illness

https://vos.health/

https://replika.com/

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1295472.Attachment?ref=nav_sb_ss_4_6

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvk97/eating-disorder-helpline-disables-chatbot-for-harmful-responses-after-firing-human-staff

Special Thanks To:

Danielle Matar at Geist

Kait Fowlie Cover art by evil genius

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