From NeuroHub: The Wider Existence Podcast launches, asking what’s wrong with the world, not the person

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There’s a new podcast in the NeuroHub family. The Wider Existence Podcast released its Season 1 trailer on 3 November, with David Gray-Hammond and Helen Edgar introducing themselves and the season ahead.

The show is built around one question. As the episode description puts it: “When a person is struggling, there are two questions available. The first is always asked: what is wrong with this person?” The podcast sets out to ask the second one, which the description says hardly ever gets asked: what is wrong with the world around them?

What Season 1 covers

According to the trailer’s description, the ten episodes will explore:

• the ecosystemic model of distress and joy, and the idea that all experience is ecological
• where distress really lives, how it builds, and what happens when the web frays into burnout and crisis
• experiences the neurodiversity movement has largely declined to touch, including madness, psychosis and other heavily stigmatised experiences
• who gets to decide what counts as real, and “symphrenia”, the hosts’ proposed word for the connected mind
• other animals, the spaces in between, and the star stuff and soil we’re all made of

Two things every episode does

According to the description, each episode includes a section called How sure are we?, which sorts what is established from what the hosts are proposing but nobody has tested yet. It’s an honest habit, and not a common one. Each episode also ends with One thread: one small thing to sit with through the week.

The episodes that discuss psychosis, burnout or crisis each start with a content note.

How to listen

Every episode has a free edition with the opening of the conversation and the closing thread. Paid subscribers get the full episodes, and the description says that subscriptions keep the work Autistic-led and independent.

This is a From NeuroHub piece: an AI-written summary of our own content, written only from the episode’s public description. Listen to the original trailer.