deverde greene
deverde.bsky.social
deverde greene
@deverde.bsky.social
mental health advocate. producer of brain fruit podcast. multimedia artist. musician.
"the analogy that i like:

you're like a ship 🚢 out on the ocean 🌊 & your anxiety is your crewmates that are like, hey, iceberg ahead or whatever, trying to give you information.

& if you choose to ignore your crewmates, they're gonna stop following orders...& they're gonna get disorderly."
June 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
new episode of brain fruit 🧠🍎 now available for streaming, my verdurous ones 💚

#mentalhealth #podcast
June 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
ever since i read her excellent book, the collected schizophrenias, i've looked up to esme weijun wang as an amazing #mentalhealth role model. here she is via bbc ideas talking about her diagnosis & how to break the stigma

youtu.be/vYrkcZTFllk?...
Schizophrenia: Breaking the mental health stigma | BBC Ideas
YouTube video by BBC Ideas
youtu.be
March 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
delightfully unexpected find of the day. thank you @darkentries.bsky.social! satisfying all the broody, spookily dubby, hypnotically rhythmic cravings i wasn't even aware i had

#musicsky #postpunk #experimental #industrial

eric-random.bandcamp.com/album/a-boy-...
A Boy Alone, by Eric Random
15 track album
eric-random.bandcamp.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM
March 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
following this & stories like it with outrage. we in the mental health community must stand in solidarity & demand the services we need & deserve

www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Trump's policies are destabilizing mental health care for veterans, sources say
The Department of Veterans Affairs is one of the largest providers of mental health care in the U.S. Its integrated care model means patients are already feeling the cuts and changes that are underway...
www.npr.org
March 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
when i was first diagnosed #bipolar i scrambled for resources, experiences, accounts - anything that would make the diagnosis explicable & understandable to me. kay redfield jamison's work, especially her book an unquiet mind, was an absolute godsend

#mentalhealth

youtu.be/J3yvLRQWWuc?...
Healthy Minds | Bipolar Disorder, Part One: A Conversation With Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D.
YouTube video by Connecticut Public
youtu.be
March 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
who are your mental health role models?

#mentalhealth #podcast
March 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
perhaps it's my early morning stumbling-into-consciousness receptivity, or the breathy vocals or the reedy clarinet washes, but this is giving me abstracted, space-expanded movietone vibes.

simply lovely.

#ambient #musicsky

perilazone.bandcamp.com/album/jazz-p...
Jazz Plates, by Perila and Ulla
13 track album
perilazone.bandcamp.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
listen up, my verdurous ones:

the new episode of my #mentalhealth #podcast is out today!

it explores the topic of finding mental health role models out there in the world.

it's bipolar awareness month, so check out this offering from a bonafide bipolar human!

youtu.be/nOL_MpZ4j4o?...
brain fruit | ep. 0.1 | role models
YouTube video by deverde greene
youtu.be
March 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
sometimes i select a record to soundtrack my morning & it syncs so cinematically with my waking consciousness that even tho i am stationary & still i feel utterly transported, delightfully actively-inactive, receptive like an antenna

#ambient #musicsky

ullastraus.bandcamp.com/album/hometo...
Hometown Girl, by U.e.
12 track album
ullastraus.bandcamp.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Reposted by deverde greene
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
March 6, 2025 at 5:45 AM
what fascinates me about meditation is what also draws me to ambient. each draws awareness to the elasticity of time, its contractions & dilations. time, like water, has no shape. it takes the form of the vessel you place it in

#ambient #musicsky #meditation

asatone.bandcamp.com/album/ariel-...
Ariel Kalma & Asa Tone - ◯, by Asa Tone
6 track album
asatone.bandcamp.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
starting work on a zine project about my bipolar diagnosis experience. i want to find ways to normalize, demystify & de-mythologize the diagnosis narrative. it's kinda like a coming out story, which i guess could dovetail with how i'm starting to truly embrace my overall queerness 💚💚🧠💚💚
March 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
this classic no-wave groover from south bronx legends esg more or less sums up my feelings about the current "administration."

what songs in your rotation best encapsulate how you feel?

share in the comments plz!

#esg #musicsky

youtu.be/TfUvZLxnEvI?...
ESG - You're No Good
YouTube video by firerecords
youtu.be
March 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
updated brain fruit podcast cover art from the incomparable jason combs.

wow, do these colors really pop & the psychedelic swirls make me swoon!
March 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
had an old-fashioned case of the fidgets during this morning's meditation session.

luckily, DOVS's latest drumless offering is here to help settle my monkey mind.

#ambient #musicsky #meditation

balmat.bandcamp.com/album/psychi...
Psychic Geography, by DOVS
9 track album
balmat.bandcamp.com
March 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
currently being transported by yazz ahmed's entrancing, global fusion trumpeting while shopping for plane tix for an upcoming cross-country trip. def will be adding this absolute groovefest to future travel playlists

#jazz #fusion #musicsky

yazzahmed.bandcamp.com/album/a-para...
A Paradise In The Hold, by Yazz Ahmed
10 track album
yazzahmed.bandcamp.com
March 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
this is quite likely my favorite thing right now

#devo #newwave #musicsky

youtu.be/XTNGg0Tj5Aw?...
Devo - Uncontrollable Urge (Live On Fridays)
YouTube video by ShoutFactoryMusic
youtu.be
March 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
fellow bipolar humans, lend me your eyes & ears!

are you interested in conversing about world bipolar awareness day/month?

all perspectives welcome!

worried about privacy? you can speak anonymously or don a nom de plume.

you know you want to!

#bipolar #mentalhealth #podcast
March 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
little lite train reading 💚💚🎧🎶🎤💚💚
March 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
you don't need fancy gear. you don't need technical expertise. when i started producing i didn't have mics, cool analog synths & drum machines or even a keyboard. i used free instrument vsts & recording software. don't fetishize the tools. focus on the inward need to create & just get started.
March 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
just got banned from a bipolar subreddit for reaching out for thoughts about bipolar awareness month. i was diagnosed bipolar 1 in 2012 & now self-produce a mental health podcast for which i am paid $0. how do we "raise awareness" if we can't even talk to each other?

#bipolar #mentalhealth #reddit
March 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
very stoked to receive my zine from @subvert.fm

if you're interested in finding viable alternatives to spotify & other awful streaming media behemoths, i suggest you explore what subvert is trying to build & become a founding member today
March 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM