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Episodes

June 26, 2025

Mental Margins: Sex Education & Understanding Predators

In this segment from episode 103, Rewriting The Conversation Around Sexual Assault , psychotherapist Havi Kang explores how societal perceptions around trauma, sexual assault, and mental health are evolving, highlighting the ...
June 23, 2025

Mental Margins: Trauma

In this segment, host Dominic Lawson pauses the narrative to ground the discussion in clinical reality. With the term "trauma" now widely used in cultural and digital discourse, this segment brings clarity to its true clinica...
June 20, 2025

Mental Margins: Men, Shame, and Assault

In this segment of Episode 103, "Rewriting the Conversation Around Sexual Assault," Mental Health Rewritten explores the often-overlooked experiences of men who have survived sexual violence. With poignant insight from Havi K...
June 19, 2025

Mental Margins: Complex PTSD

In this segment, hosts Dominic Lawson and Dan Woerheide explore the enduring psychological toll of sexual assault, turning their focus to Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) . Dan reflects on the harrowing process of forensic exams for sur...
June 17, 2025

Rewriting the Conversation Around Sexual Assault

In this powerful and necessary episode of Mental Health Rewritten , we open with a deceptively simple question: “Is this sexual assault?” From that moment forward, we begin a journey that challenges long-held beliefs about co...
June 14, 2025

Mental Margins: Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder

In this excerpt from Episode 101: Rewriting the Conversation Around Sex Addiction , Havi Kang joins host Dominic Lawson to explore the evolving understanding of compulsive sexual behavior. The episode introduces CSBD (Compuls...
June 11, 2025

Mental Margins: A Brief History of Pornography

In this bonus episode of Mental Health Rewritten , host Dominic Lawson takes listeners on a captivating journey through the history of pornography, exploring how desire has been depicted, suppressed, and preserved across cent...
June 4, 2025

Mental Margins: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

In this introspective and educational Mental Margin segment, we explore how trauma isn't always loud. Sometimes it whispers through our adult decisions, shaped quietly and powerfully by Adverse Childhood Experiences—ACEs. Wit...
May 30, 2025

Rewriting the Conversation Around Pornography

This episode of the Mental Health Rewritten podcast examines the complex and often misunderstood relationship between pornography, mental health, and personal identity. Through the dual narratives of Geo, a former adult content creator, and Maddie, a teenager struggling with compulsive pornography …
May 21, 2025

Mental Margins: Betrayal Trauma & Infidelity

About Mental Margins Mental Margins is a short-form segment from full Mental Health Rewritten episodes—designed to be a more accessible entry point into the show’s deeply emotional, cinematic approach to mental health. These...
May 14, 2025

Rewriting the Conversation Around Sex Addiction

🎙️ Welcome to Episode 1 of Mental Health Rewritten! In our season-opening episode, we confront one of the most misunderstood and stigmatized topics in mental health: sex addiction. Through the story of Daniel — a man whose pr...
May 7, 2025

What is the DSM-5 and ICD-11?

🎙️ Mental health conversations often involve a lot of terms, diagnoses, and classifications — but where do they come from, and why do they matter? I'm Dominic Lawson, creator of Mental Health Rewritten. Throughout this show, we'll be...
April 29, 2025

Welcome To Mental Health Rewritten

🎙️ Welcome to Mental Health Rewritten — hosted by multi-award-winning podcaster and mental health advocate Dominic Lawson. In a world flooded with conversations about mental health, not all information is helpful — and some can even cause...