This Is Actually Happening
Episodes
146: What if you thought your mother was a robot?
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“I completely lost touch with reality. You can’t rely on those around you, and you can’t rely on what’s within you. That’s the most terrifyi...
145: What if your best friend met a tragic fate?
17 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“I’m the kind of person where I like to know answers. I don’t like secrets I don’t like surprises…I really want to know what brought him to ...
144: What if you suffered from postpartum depression?
03 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“All those thoughts were going through my head like you’re worthless, you’re a loser, you’re a failure, you can’t be happy, you can’t feel...
143: What if you were seduced into a whole new world?
19 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“Am I at fault? Am I not a victim? Should I not be able to say that because I let it happen? I don’t know if in the human heart there will ever be...
142: What if it happened in broad daylight?
05 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“I didn’t really realize that it was a thing that was happening to me. I don’t really know how to describe that feeling, but it was just so hard...
141: What if you witnessed a horrific act?
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“I just felt something inside of me that was so sickening. It’s just like this point of realization, almost like your biggest fear in that moment ...
140: What if you were entangled in a web of shame?
08 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“It’s just confusing thinking about even today what I’m supposed to feel about the whole thing…humans aren’t really built to fully understan...
139: What if your father disappeared?
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“The worst thing that anxiety does is make you think that you have control to change something, like if I can constantly be in control of everything...
138: What if at three months pregnant your world was turned upside down?
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“It’s like this weird tunnel of reality collapsing and you want to hold on to where you just were at where none of this happened, but now you have...
137: What if you were the one to break the silence?
27 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“I don’t know what I was thinking but I just kept feeling like the waves of shame because of the shame I made them feel.” Producer: Wh...
136: What if you had to fight for your life?
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“I did have the feeling that someone was gonna come back and do something horrible again after that.” Producer: Whit MissildineEditors: ...
135: What if a minor procedure left you permanently altered?
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“My personhood had been shattered into a thousand pieces that I and my family were left to pick up one at a time.” Producer: Whit Missil...
Season 9 Announcements
06 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Announcements for Season 9 of This Is Actually Happening. Includes updates on the release schedule, the new This is Actually Happening store, and more...
134: What if your singular dream fell to pieces?
11 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“How could I allow myself to mourn what I had lost? Because if I mourned it, then it was like a death, and I couldn’t accept that the me that I kn...
133: What if your life went up in flames?
28 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“All that traumatized people are really looking for is not a fix-it but more like a validation or acknowledgement that it matters.” Producer:...
132: What if you were kept from the one you loved most?
14 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“It’s interesting always having this void, knowing that you have something so wonderful that could love you so much and you could love so much tha...
131: What if a psychotic break split your life wide open?
30 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“I have a fear every single day am I going crazy and I don’t even know it? I didn’t know the things that I was doing and the things that I was s...
130: What if you had thoughts of harming those you love most?
16 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“People say you should always trust your gut feelings. But I couldn’t trust my gut feeling and I still can’t to this day, because to me a gut fe...
1: What if your boyfriend lit himself on fire? (1st episode)
11 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
"We're still here. What part are we playing in all this?"Producer: Whit MissildineEpisode Summary: After finally deciding to settle into a l...