A Hoe Named Heroin

Entering a dual diagnosis program for addiction and mental health. Meeting the characters of the mental hospital.  The events that took place during Karisa's first week of the partial hospitalization program.  Using men to cope as a mechanism to cope with a 7 year break-up. 

Exposing lies during a traumatic breakup.  Mentally unstable and highly suicidal, Karisa exposes her deepest darkest thoughts and emotions. What it means to relapse. First day of the partial hospitalization program. 

An episode about 2 bitches and 1 big liar. A scene that could be on an episode of the show Shameless. The worst heartbreak and betrayal Karisa has ever experienced. Struggling heavy with suicide and the want to relapse. 

Watching a loved one's addiction, arrest, and downward spiral from the outside. Will the love of bad boys be Karisa's downfall? Trying to cope with the sentiment - just because you love someone... doesn't mean they are good for you. 

Sex, drugs, and jealousy.  Trying to move forward with mental health, the deadly combo of BPD and addiction is hard to overcome. This episode recounts the ups and downs of an on and off relationship that took place during 2022. All the crazy things Karisa did to try and keep the love of my life in my life.

The second part to the chilling tale of Karisa's recent overdose. All the gorey details about  both the overdose and the aftermath. She talks about all the feelings that come with a near death experience. 

What happens when a drug addiction, untreated mental health, and a rocky relationship collide. The events that led up to her losing sight of her mental health, and how much that affects addiction. She explains the emotional rollercoaster and effects that come along with borderline personality disorder, severe anxiety, OCD, and depression. From childhood, her mind was trained to survive by distracting, avoiding, and escaping using unhealthy coping mechanisms  - like drugs and men. 

2 psychotic sisters share their stories/memories of growing up with entangled drug addictions. Karisa has her younger sister Austin on the podcast.  Austin is 6 months sober and shares the beginning of her story - which includes struggling with her gender identity and sexuality.  She explains how it fit in with fueling her addiction. This episode covers Austin's life growing up and stops right before her senior year of high school. 

This episode is about a rollercoaster relationship that contributes to a 2 month long benzo bender.  This bender leads to emotional breakdowns, suicidal ideation, and unmanaged mental illness. It discusses sobriety vs recovery. 

Karisa recounts her drug and relationship history from 2015 to 2021. This episode is the first part in a two part series. This episode has a time jump to 2015 so she can get you up to speed with what has currently been happening in her life with drugs and men. It covers 2015 from when she decided to get off heroin and goes through her addictions that came after- Fentanyl and Xanax. It also recounts her relationship history and covers her 2 most recent breakups - in 2015 and 2021. 

Karisa's experience in the troubled teen industry. From the psych ward she is escorted by strangers at 7 a.m. to Clayton, Georgia - a middle of nowhere town. At 17 she is forced to eat, sleep, hike, and live in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains for 10 weeks.  She shares her experience living in the woods and the characters she meets. She sprinkles in a tiny bit of therapy at the end. By facing the traumas of your childhood, you can see what survival skills you had to develop that aren't serving you anymore. 

This episode covers being detained at a concert, getting back with an ex, sneaking out, and stealing our parents' cars. It covers the end of Karisa's junior year of high school to the first month of her senior year.  She gets expelled for drugs at school and is sent to the psych ward, where she is also expelled for drugs. Her love for opiates is cemented. This episode shows the impact of a familial cycle of violence & abuse - trying to survive and the need to escape reality. 

The secret to being a happy drug addict and find your purpose in life! WHY YOU DESERVE HAPPINESS & HOW TO GET THERE! Your host Karisa shares what she learned from her recent mushroom trip.  Have you felt like there has been no point to living? This is Why Drugs Might Have Saved Your Life at the time. Drugs are like a trauma response, you're using them to survive your present circumstances, BUT let's talk about a new way to live. The difference between Surviving and Thriving. Let's use our emotions to help us grow & deal with mental illness WITHOUT drugs. 

Sober? We don't know her. Your host Karisa is back at it again  - with a second episode detailing her sophomore and junior years of high school. These years include stomach pumps, suspensions, and outpatient rehab. Besides fucking around with drugs, she fucks around with hearts. It's a classic tale of bouncing between two men. 

The host Karisa recounts her troubled childhood, her middle school years of being bullied, and the start of a harrowing high school experience. She learns to survive by cutting, getting high, and getting drunk. She explains the start of her drug addiction and toxic relationships with men. Using dark humor as a coping mechanism, she hopes you learn some life lessons while being entertained by the trainwreck that has been her past life. (The first podcast - so the quality only gets better)