Episodes
Aug. 6, 2025
Mental Margins: The Anchor in the Dark
In this segement of Mental Margins, we share two perspectives on the hidden weight of high-functioning pain. First, trauma therapist Denise D. Moore shares a testimonial and reflects on dismantling the “strong Black woman” st...
July 30, 2025
Mental Margins: Major Depressive Disorder
In this week's Mental Margin , we step back from the noise and dig deep into Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)—not just as a diagnosis, but as a lived experience. With over 700,000 lives lost to suicide annually, understanding ...
July 23, 2025
Rewriting the Conversation Around Suicide
In this episode of Mental Health Rewritten, we tackle the subject of suicidal ideation with care, nuance, and urgency. Through a combination of real survivor stories, fictionalized scenes, clinical insight, and historical fra...
July 18, 2025
Mental Margins: The Cost of Silence
In this segment from episode Starting The Conversation Around Sexual Anorexia , we begin with what looks like a familiar path—trauma responses—but quickly uncover a deeper, more insidious truth: how intimacy, when distorted b...
July 16, 2025
Mental Margins: Janet Bentley Discussing Intimacy and Shame
In this deeply personal bonus segment from Episode 104 Starting The Conversation About Sexual Anorexia, we hear more from Janet Bentley, a woman navigating the silent emotional toll of sexual anorexia within her marriage. Wha...
July 8, 2025
Mental Margins: Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder
In this segment, Janet reflects on her lifelong struggle with intimacy and the emotional walls built from trauma, exploring the complex relationship between Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder (FSIAD) and sexual anorexia—...
July 2, 2025
Starting the Conversation Around Sexual Anorexia
Kyle sits awake at 2 AM, the glow of his laptop revealing a single word in the search bar: “avoidance.” He scrolls past harsh phrases like fear of intimacy and sexual withdrawal that feel like accusations. Then one term stops...
June 27, 2025
Mental Margins: Internal Barriers & OnlyFans Reveal
In this special reflection episode of Mental Health Rewritten , host Dominic Lawson celebrates 40 days of the podcast's journey with over 1,000 subscribers and nearly 13,000 downloads. Dominic shares heartfelt gratitude for l...
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...