Ashly Burch Delivers Mental Health Insight Using Puppets and Swear Words

There are plenty of places online to get very serious information
on mental health, delivered in tones that are somber, sober, or
very dry. Ashly Burch goes a different route on her new YouTube
show, I’m Happy You’re Here, employing loads of comedy, puppets,
foul language, and mature subject matter to teach what’s going on
in complex matters such as anxiety. Ashly is known for her work
in the games Fortnite, Life is Strange, and The
Last of Us Part II, as well as television series like
Mythic Quest and Adventure Time. We talk with Ashly
about her lifelong anxiety, her experiences with eye movement
desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, and the
importance of demystifying mental health conditions as a way of
understanding them.


(As mentioned on the show)


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